AI to the rescue – reconfiguring a post I convoluted to hell and back January 23, 2026 Last Post: The Twists and turns of curiosity Next Post: The Reader did not have space for my column today NOTE: I GAVE THE… Continue Reading
The twists and turns of curiosity January 23, 2026 Last Post: SNL – too good for the cutting room floor Next Post: AI to the rescue – reconfiguring a post I convoluted to… Continue Reading
National Public Radio – news July 7, 2025 Last post Next Post I have always liked good summaries since before my grandmother gave me birthday subscriptions to Readers Digest for my junior… Continue Reading
Times today…From real news sources, Buckley’s last 40 years and 30 trillion for the uber rich June 26, 2025 Last post Next post Oxfam estimates that over the last decade the world’s richest 1 percent have gotten 34 trillion richer. The Top three… Continue Reading
I printed up 20 lawnsigns and will take them to the Duluth March in opposition to Trump inhumanity June 13, 2025 Last post Next post Here it is in my front yard. Tomorrow I will carry it proudly in a march. Continue Reading
I wrote about studying the Smoot Hawley Act in high school April 3, 2025 Last post Next post https://bsky.app/profile/altspaceforce.altgov.info/post/3llwb3zkk2c2h Like these kids in Ferris Beuhler’s day off the voters went to the polls to elect Trump with their… Continue Reading
Honey not Vinegar February 17, 2025 Previous Post Next post My Mom impressed upon me that “you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.” Its a nice thought but the… Continue Reading
How hatred of Government became hatred of taxes became the modern GOP February 14, 2024 This screen capture from the intro to one of my favorite French detective shows Les petits meurtres d’Agath Christie fits with my last paragraph… Continue Reading
September 13, 2022 I tested Covid positive on Friday. I tested Covid positive today the Tuesday following. I had a half day in full Covid mode stuffed… Continue Reading
Some paranoia is deserved, some is financed with deep pockets August 4, 2021 I mention this book in next Friday’s column the Reader: I mention in the column that I only have 100 pages of it under… Continue Reading
Polluted to death April 7, 2020 I used that phrase in my last video. Here’s what’s on my mind. Out of the habit of thirty years I washed this old… Continue Reading
If its death panels or a good economy… March 23, 2020 …which one will Donald Trump choose? Trump is complaining that being President has cost him 2 Billion dollars. The virus is causing his properties… Continue Reading
American Shams March 17, 2020 Salon ran a short thoughtful piece that began with the government showing flexibility where it once was arbitrary. This piece in Salon is well… Continue Reading
Warrenism 2 March 12, 2020 Brad took issue with Mr. Wilkerson’s NY Times opinion piece. This was how I defended Wilkerson’s point of view: Brad, Just because the Congressional… Continue Reading
Irony in a fortune cookie February 25, 2020 From the first side of my Chinese take out last night. and the other side: Continue Reading
Wealth Taxes and :( sigh ): This September 14, 2019 23 minutes – This comes from NPR’s . Its about the Ultra Rich wealth tax of Elizabeth Warren. Since my college days forty years… Continue Reading
“Trade Wars are Easy to Win”…Iowa farmers…. September 8, 2019 … are desperately hoping Donald Trump is right! I always come back from my wife’s Iowa reunions with new insights. Her cousin who farms… Continue Reading
What Harry’s reading 8-20-2019 August 20, 2019 Both stories/opinion pieces are from the New York Times: I vividly recall the Tea Party demanding that America pay its debts at the beginning… Continue Reading
Sepsis, Isis, Trumpsis August 6, 2019 Rot, mayhem, stupidity = world economic collapse. Sustained and amplified by Republican politicians hiding under a naked President’s petticoats. Continue Reading
Juan Percent’s True Colors April 5, 2019 I have a grudging respect for Juan Percent. Unlike the majority of strangers who have anonymously faulted my writing Juan has taken part in… Continue Reading