This may be my last video for 2019. It is, after all, late December. It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? A real roller coaster ride. And, I must confess, this was a flight I could have done without. And, I suspect, like you, I worry about what the last year…what the last three years…will…

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Thinking again about Mars Rover Opportunity whose final transmission sounded so terribly human and so terribly sad, “My battery is low and it is getting dark.” And, curiously, there is a connection here to who we are, and what we may (or should) become. ~mjt

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Even after Trump is gone, we will have to be on guard. We must deal with the underlying problems that made him possible, or else we will have to deal with bigger Trumps in future.    

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  How will they deal, I wonder, with the historians of the future? In time, of course, Trump will fall. And then, how, I wonder, will the people who today support him justify themselves? How will they present themselves to those who will write the story of our age? How, that is, will they try…

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William Happer has left the White House along with his friend John Bolton. That is a very good thing. Happer is among the world’s leading climate change denialists. And the one thing we don’t need right now is one of those in any position of power.      

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image source: Joe Mabel We learned with some sadness the other day of the passing of Gahan Wilson, the great cartoonist whose macabre humor and startling talent kept us amused since we first encountered him in the 1960s. His images were inevitably funny, yet also somehow terrifying. Perhaps not since Charles Adams have the fearsome…

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Your humble editor is so tired of writing for LR NET that he could just about spit. But, that said, even when tRump’s gone, the problems that created him will remain. Until those are addressed, we may all of us have to stay on the job. This little video addresses that issue, and does so…

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