For all practical purposes the office of the American President has become one of an uncrowned king.
There are many, many steps that led us to this point, but the parallels are blatant and numerous. Our uncrowned king has the power of life and death over his citizens, the authority to impose laws via fiat, and no accountability to any save the nobles which are the only check on his power.
It's good to see you. Come on in, leave your shoes in the hallway, we've got fire on the stove preparing lunch for later. In the meantime, browse the bookshelves and plunk down on the sofa with one, or pick out some tunes from the music library or come in to the kitchen to help with the cooking. Our special blend of tea is steeping and will be right up.
NY brit expat and Geminijen wrote this
This year we decided to highlight the International Women’s Strike set for March 8th, 2017 whose aims completely fit into the framework that we have set for understanding and recovering the history of International Women’s Day. We hope that women will participate in these strikes in whatever way that they can do.
I hate the narrative that "the people" elected Donald Trump because they were tired of the status quo, that those who voted for him were those most affected by the jobs leaving the country, the white poor from the rust belt and rural areas, the "working class", the "99%".
It's amazing to watch Democrats get panicked and obsessed about imaginary and extremely unlikely dangers by the Great Russian Bear (example: invasion of Baltics).
I have devoted several essays about the "humorous" aspects of Nancy Pelosi's pronouncements. Many of those sayings demonstrated a gross lack of touch with reality (e.g., you couldn't work with President Bush anymore--that train left the station 8 years ago).
Over the weekend, the son of former drug lord Pablo Escobar released a new book claiming that his father “worked for the CIA.”
When I wrote yesterday about a transgender child who was being mistreated by a Chicago-area hospital, I was not surprised to encounter a comment questioning the reality of young transgender children. It is a not-infrequent occurrence.
People who are not transgender have a difficult time understanding an issue that is so far from their own existence. That's why people who are different have such a hard time trying to fit into our society.
New research shows that electrons passing through a narrow constriction in a piece of metal can move much faster than expected, and that they move faster if there are more of them — a seemingly paradoxical result.
