Can we please just skip the rest of 2020?
I’m not the only one who saw the first videos from Beirut Tuesday and immediately thought “nuke.” But the thought passed as quickly as the mushroom-shaped cloud itself — unlike […]
Those crafty Iranians have flying gunboats
Poor Trump. He so desperately wants to be a masterful Commander-in-Chief but he just can’t get the hang of it.
Doomsday Clock set at 100 seconds to midnight
Most adults have probably heard of the Doomsday Clock. It was created by the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, America’s atomic bomb-building project during World War II and […]
Australia burning
I thought Colorado’s fires were bad. And then came California. I thought California’s fires were bad. And then came Australia. I don’t know how one adequately describes what’s happening there. […]
Far worse than the Ukrainian phone call
Trump’s phone call asking Ukraine to interfere in American politics was an impeachable offense. And the impeachment hearings are now in progress. But at least nobody died in that incident. […]
Alarmist? You betcha!
Alarmist? Since the ’60s I’ve heard that the Amazon rain forest is “the earth’s lungs” and supplies about 20% of the world’s oxygen. Yet all these years later, the Brazilians […]
Trump’s latest ‘absurd’ idea
When I first heard that Donald Trump was talking about buying Greenland, I thought it was a joke. As big a joke as Trump running for president. Fortunately, he was […]
