Category Archives: Culture

This is the kind of thing that drives Bernie Sanders voters to the polls

Posted on February 29, 2016 by a1skeptic

The Boston Globe recently had a story about a San Francisco area landlord who was evicting a 97 year old lady, notwithstanding that she had lived in her apartment for 66 years, and that she has cancer. Really? The guy … Continue reading →

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Bernie and the Donald are very odd characters to being channeling America’s outrage

Posted on February 11, 2016 by a1skeptic

Truth be told, Bernie and the Donald are strange icons to be channeling the outrage of American voters who believe that the system is rigged (which includes me, by the way). And, if the media is to be believed, there … Continue reading →

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Unlike lab rats, Americans are completely untrainable

Posted on January 27, 2016 by a1skeptic

It’s been reported recently in the news that, with gas prices at record lows, people are “trading in their hybrids” and buying SUVs again. We really are morons. Lab rats can at least can be trained. We, it appears, are … Continue reading →

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Sarah Palin’s incomprehensible word salad in endorsing Donald Trump

Posted on January 25, 2016 by a1skeptic

Last week Sarah Palin flew down from Alaska and endorsed Donald Trump for President. A lot of liberals and progressives were scratching their collective heads, asking, this is news? And it wasn’t just liberals and progressives. A lot of “regular” … Continue reading →

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Submit to the snow, which rewards indolence and punishes the go-getters

Posted on January 23, 2016 by a1skeptic

Here’s a great little piece in the opinion section of the New York Times about how in the case of a blizzard, one should do nothing. A snowstorm rewards indolence and punishes the go-getters, which is one of reasons it’s … Continue reading →

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The New Era of Negative Partisanship is Upon Us

Posted on January 22, 2016 by a1skeptic

Politics isn’t about who you love. It’s about who you despise. That’s the upshot of a paper by Emory University political scientists Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz and Emory political science graduate student Stephen Webster. “The most important influence … Continue reading →

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God help the American Educational System

Posted on January 19, 2016 by a1skeptic

Here was a great little posting on Facebook relative to a woman – whose FB data had been redacted – who wrote: “I’m not a racist, but I think Muslims should go back to Islam if they want to practice … Continue reading →

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Driving While Black in a BMW

Posted on January 18, 2016 by a1skeptic

In view of this being the Martin Luther King Holiday, there was a shocking story reported on the Turk about how in 2014 a black woman was essentially arrested for driving in a BMW in New York City, and ended … Continue reading →

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God help the American Education System

Posted on January 4, 2016 by a1skeptic

Since starting my Blog I have mostly avoided posting political items on Facebook. Actually, I don’t post much at all. I’d rather just respond to some of the amusing things that I see out there, and be more of a … Continue reading →

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Pulling Together the Strands for 2016

Posted on January 3, 2016 by a1skeptic

In the last week of 2015 I recapitulated the central ideas that fuel the blog. These included the following: That the state of political discourse in the United States is currently very low, and that the populace in general has … Continue reading →

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