January 2025

Pre-Inauguration Perceptions on Eve of Trump 2.0

The Coming Fires

The Fires in Gaza are the Fires in LA

Santa Ana Winds and the New Normal

Newsom’s Atomic Folly: Now By Fire, Next by Quake, Then by Apocalyptic Radiation?  

Are the Republicans Now the Working-Class Party?

Israel Bombs, America Yawns and Gatekeepers Con

Targeting Climate Change Protests

Beware ‘Unleashing Freedom’ to Plunder and Pollute

Israel Destroyed Gaza ‘for Generations to Come’ and the World Stayed Silent

Smokey Bear is Partially Right

Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning, Denouncing the Merchants of Death

The Unfairness and Inadequacy of Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment Increases

Trump’s Tariffs Mean Taxes at Temu

The Uses and Misuses of Ideology in Analyzing the Syrian Overthrow

We Still Have Our Eyes Wide Shut to Modern Slavery

Dead Consciences

Kim Kelly and Hamilton Nolan: Labor in the Age of Trump

Burn, Hollywood, Burn?

Roaming Charges: Hurricane of Fire

The Children of Gaza Are Freezing to Death

Hands, Fingers, Nose and Throat: Re-Doing Dylan

The Yanquis Are Coming: Trump Threatens a “Soft Invasion” of Mexico

Net Zero/2050 Fantasy or Reality?

Beyond the Illusion: The Dark Dream of a Totalitarian Empire

What Can He Do?

Searching for Joy in the Democratic Party

The War Criminal ‘Victim’: Netanyahu’s Inevitable Fate

Kvetching, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

The West Makes War; the East, Peace

To Desegregate, Ride the Bus

Meet Mr. Dylan

Trump is Far Too Timid in His Imperial Aspirations

Welcome to 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die

Transylvania by Bicycle

Lessons from Van Gogh: The Center Is Wherever I Make My Art

Drones, Nukes and the Myth of Reactor Safety

Biden’s Economic Legacy

Only a Pawn in Their Game: Notes on Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake

Judgement Day for the Merchants Of Death

Patriarchy, COVID-19 and a Novel About a Dickhead

How Hot Does A Fire Have To Burn?

Canada’s Military Spending

Remembering When Karen Wasn’t an Insult

Dystopia Nears

The Lies Have It: Xcel Energy Wins Operating Extension for Nation’s 5th Oldest Nuclear Reactor

Conservation Advocates Sue Flathead Forest Service to Stop Massive Clearcutting West of Whitefish, Montana

Architecture of Cities: Color and Light Into Pictures of Cities

Jimmy Carter Was My Last President

In 2025 We Must All Fight Like the Few People Who Didn’t Suck in 2024