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Why majority vote rules will address important weaknesses in our country
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Gus diZerega
This post addresses some questions readers asked in a previous one. Today a majority of Americans are thoroughly fed up with both major parties, with the Republicans even more than with the Democrats. Yet these toxic dinosaurs run no risk at all of ceasing to be the two big players in American politics, as…
Obama’s teaching moment for Americans
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Gus diZerega
Barack Obama has provided a lesson in American reality to many people who once thought the Democrats were still in some sense like the Democrats who passed Civil Rights legislation and earlier, the New Deal. That party died. It was murdered and its murderers kept their crime a secret in order to benefit from their…
From Jane Goodall to parasites, Christopher Hitchens and Henry Kissinger
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Gus diZerega
Trust me – there is a connection Every other Wednesday I spend the morning in a kind of salon where a bunch of us get together to discuss various aspects of science. One is a retired physicist, another a geologist, another a physician, another a molecular biologist, and so on. I am an outlier, as…
Why Wikileaks’ enemies are the enemies of humanity (whether they intend it or not)
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Gus diZerega
Human life differs from the rest of earthly life in one crucial respect: biological evolution has largely taken second place to cultural evolution. Cultural evolution enables adaptations within a single generation that would take thousands of generations if brought about biologically, if they were possible at all. We are the beneficiaries. Below the fold I will…
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