Rondam Ramblings

You may not have heard, but the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade yesterday.  They did it covertly, by failing to act on Texas's dev...

When the truth is not on your side one thing you can do is to try to change it , and when that doesn't work, outlaw it: Under the cultur...

The brazen shamelessness of Republican hypocrisy is on full display as they move to remove Liz Cheney from her leadership position for dari...

It has become repetitive to the point of being tiresome : a crazy person buys an automatic weapon and kills a bunch of innocent bystanders. ...

For the last year and a half or so I have run a weekly Bible study which attracts a diverse group of believers and non-believers.  On a sem...

FYI, I'm doing a YouTube debate this evening at 5:30 PST with Matt Slick on the topic of "Atheism, Christianity, and morality"...

From The Washington Post : Whether President Trump is forced from office or serves out the remaining days of his term, he is now destined ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger just released a video in which he compares the Jan 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to Kristallnacht , and draws a straig...

A dry run of the attack on the U.S. capitol occurred the day before in northern California : Here in California’s rural, conservative northe...

Speaking of prophetic observations, here is a particularly profound one made by Hans Howe back in 2017: Trump administration lies constantly...

I don't think I'm going very far out on a limb to make this prediction, but I just wanted to get it on the record before it happened...

 Article III section 3 of the Constitution of the United States says: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying...

It was never a question of whether Donald Trump would destroy the Republican party, but when and how, and whether he would take the rest of ...

 

Here's a fact: [D]ifferences in home and neighborhood quality do not fully explain the devaluation of homes in black neighborhoods. Hom...

I would like to think that Ruth Bader Ginsberg's untimely passing is not the catastrophe that it appears to be.  I would like to think t...

 This is a photo of our house taken at noon today:                                   This is not the raw image.  I took this with an iPhone,...

Never forget what conservatives were saying about Donald Trump before he cowed them into submission. (Sorry about the tiny size of the embed...

The Republican party has formally decided not to adopt a platform this year, instead passing a resolution that says essentially, "we wi...

 Here is a snapshot of the current map of temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) issued by the FAA across the western U.S.: Almost every one o...

  With a heavy heart I bear witness to the untimely passing of Dr. Irit Gat last Tuesday at the age of 53.  Irit was the Dean of Behavioral ...

Take a moment to seriously think about what is wrong with racism.  If you're like most people, your answer will probably be that racism ...

Not that this was ever in any serious doubt, but now there is actual data published in The Lancet showing that  abortion restrictions increa...

The Washington Post reports: Early Wednesday, under a heavy police presence and before any public announcement about the matter, officials...

I've recently taken up a new hobby of debating young-earth creationists on YouTube.  (It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do ...

I've always been very proud of the fact that I came out in support of gay marriage before it was cool .   I have been correspondingly ch...

1.  Introduction (Feel free to skip this part.  It's just some context for what comes next.) As regular readers will already know, I...