Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 184 other subscribersQuote of the Day
more QuotesCategories
- Addiction (14)
- Advance Directives (11)
- Adventures (5)
- Advocacy (221)
- Aging Sites (149)
- Animals (145)
- Architecture (14)
- Art (137)
- artificial intelligence (1)
- Books (72)
- Business (111)
- Caregiving (16)
- CCRC Info (40)
- Civic Engagement Group (118)
- Climate (49)
- Communication (25)
- Community Engagement Group (6)
- Cooking (14)
- Crime (47)
- Dance (46)
- Dementia (85)
- Disabilities (17)
- drugs (3)
- Economics (25)
- Education (147)
- end of life (112)
- energy (2)
- Entertainment (94)
- environment (287)
- Essays (344)
- Ethics (5)
- Finance (60)
- Fitness (32)
- Food (58)
- Gardening (20)
- Gay rights/essays (1)
- Government (272)
- Grief (28)
- Guns (34)
- happiness (114)
- Health (752)
- History (295)
- Holidays (65)
- Homeless (23)
- Hospice (6)
- Housing (4)
- Humor (991)
- Immigration (3)
- In the Neighborhood (439)
- Justice (35)
- Kindness (13)
- language (3)
- Law (102)
- literature (20)
- Love (1)
- Media (39)
- Memory Loss (3)
- Mental Health (10)
- Military (25)
- Morality (6)
- Movies (13)
- Music (187)
- Nature (172)
- nutrition (1)
- Obituaries (13)
- On Stage (7)
- Opera (22)
- Organ donation (1)
- Parks (30)
- Pets (14)
- Philanthropy (17)
- Philosophy (19)
- Photography (95)
- Plants (2)
- Poetry (35)
- Politics (545)
- Poverty (13)
- prayer (8)
- Race (86)
- Recipes (1)
- Recycling (1)
- refugees (1)
- Religion (69)
- Remembrances (59)
- Retirement (15)
- Safety (58)
- Satire (44)
- Scams (32)
- Science and Technology (203)
- Shopping (9)
- Singing (1)
- Skyline Info (45)
- sleep (9)
- Social justice (170)
- Space (3)
- Spiritual (16)
- Sport (13)
- Sports (49)
- Taxes (5)
- technology (12)
- terrorism (1)
- theater (12)
- Traffic (14)
- Transportation (71)
- Travel (32)
- Uncategorized (1,277)
- Volunteering (16)
- Voting (3)
- WACCRA (7)
- War (75)
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 184 other subscribers
Category Archives: Government
A note from Robert Reich
Thanks to Mike C. Friends, What do card sharks, magicians, pickpockets, and tyrants do to hide their tricks? They deflect your attention. “Look over here!” they say, as they create a commotion that preoccupies your mind while they bamboozle you. … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Government
Leave a comment
It Can Happen Here: Reckoning with Donald Trump’s 2024 Election Victory
Everyone who realizes with proper alarm that Trump’s reelection is a deeply dangerous moment in American life must think hard about where we are. By David Remnick in The New Yorker (thanks to Ed M.) On the morning after Donald … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Government
Leave a comment
Masterpiece Story: Statue of Liberty
Anastasia Manioudaki (thanks to Ann M. who notes I think the Lady must now be weeping. Please note her imagined damage (head knocked off) in the WW1 poster on display in our Art of the Month + her history below. … Continue reading
Posted in Government, History, War
Leave a comment
Against Panic: A Survival Kit
By Margaret Renkl in the NYT (Thanks to Ed M.) Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. I had an elaborate itinerary for Election Day that I … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Grief
Leave a comment
No, democracy isn’t dead
by Steve Iskeep in Substack My mailbox this week included a note with the subject line, “Democracy Without America.” The writer was sharing a link to an article with a slightly less stark headline, given its punctuation: “Democracy without America?” … Continue reading
Posted in Government
Leave a comment
Borowitz — “What Happens Now?”
Nixon’s landslide victory in 1972 made him appear invulnerable. He wasn’t. (Cindy Yamanaka/MediaNews Group/The Riverside Press-Enterprise via Getty Images) Maybe you’ve been asking yourself: 1. “How could Donald Trump have won 51 percent of the popular vote?” 2. “How hard … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Politics
1 Comment
What should Trump’s opponents do next?
by David French in the NYT (thanks to Put B.) There is no mystery about what happened Tuesday night. Unlike 2016, when the anticipation of Hillary Clinton’s victory turned into the shock of defeat, every smart analyst I know not … Continue reading
Posted in Government
Leave a comment
The all-female mobile health team working against the odds in Afghanistan
From the International Rescue Committee in August 2022 (after the Taliban took over in 2021) Despite countless hurdles, all-women teams of medical doctors are braving long distances and treacherous terrain to bring health care to the remotest villages in Afghanistan, … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Health, Religion, War
Leave a comment
Voting for the Light
The religious imagineer (thanks to Mary Jane F.) Pablo Picasso, La Minotauromachie (1935). Picasso’s turbulent etching from the eve of the Spanish Civil War seems a timely image of my own country in this harrowing election season. The monstrous beast towers over … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Government, History
Leave a comment
Charlie Chaplin’s greatest speech
Thanks to Pam P. But before that comes this scene. I’m looking at Putin.
Posted in Government, Politics, Race
Leave a comment
The will of the people
“Fellow-citizens,” Lincoln reminded his colleagues, “we cannot escape history. We…will be remembered in spite of ourselves.” Commentary by Heather Cox Richardson I’m home tonight to stay for a bit, after being on the road for thirteen months and traveling through … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Race
Leave a comment
This Is Not the End of America
By McKay Coppins in The Atlantic (thanks to Alice W.) Everything about the staging of Kamala Harris’s “closing argument” rally Tuesday night on the White House Ellipse seemed designed to frame the upcoming election as a referendum on democracy. Flanked by … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Politics
Leave a comment
Hell yes! The Seattle Times edit board endorses Harris for president
By Frank Blethen and Kate Riley – Seattle Times publisher and Times editorial page editor As one of the country’s very few family-owned and -operated metro newspapers left, The Seattle Times is also apparently one of the few whose editorial board is … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Government
Leave a comment
“Floating pile of garbage”
Commentary by Heather Cox Richardson I stand corrected. I thought this year’s October surprise was the reality that Trump’s mental state had slipped so badly he could not campaign in any coherent way. It turns out that the 2024 October … Continue reading
Posted in Dementia, Government, Politics, Social justice
Leave a comment
Commentary by Heather Cox Richardson
A bombshell story last night from the Wall Street Journal reported that billionaire Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world, who is backing the election of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump with a daily million-dollar sweepstakes giveaway … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Government, Politics
2 Comments
Resistance to Public Health, No Longer Fringe, Gains Foothold in G.O.P. Politics
The merger of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald J. Trump campaigns puts the so-called medical freedom movement on the cusp of real power in Washington, with a new slogan: “Make America Healthy Again.” By Sheryl Gay Stolberg in the … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Health
Comments Off on Resistance to Public Health, No Longer Fringe, Gains Foothold in G.O.P. Politics
It’s getting more bizzare — and dangerous
Commentary by Heather Cox Richardson As the two presidential campaigns position themselves for the final sprint to the election on November 5, the difference between them is dramatic. Trump is hunkering down behind what has always appeared to be a … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Politics
Comments Off on It’s getting more bizzare — and dangerous
A history of the “stolen” 2020 election by Heather Cox Richardson
Posted in Government
Comments Off on A history of the “stolen” 2020 election by Heather Cox Richardson
John Green, Jodi Picoult, Angie Thomas join publishers in lawsuit fighting Florida book bans
From GoodGoodGood – thanks to Pam P. Authors John Green, Jodi Picoult, and Angie Thomas have three things in common: They’re all majorly successful writers, their books have been banned in states across the country, and now, they’re joining a lawsuit to fight … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Books, Education, Government
Comments Off on John Green, Jodi Picoult, Angie Thomas join publishers in lawsuit fighting Florida book bans
A Russian dissident speaks out
Posted in Advocacy, Crime, Government, War
Comments Off on A Russian dissident speaks out
Reasoning about why we vote the way we do
Thanks to Mike C. Ed note: I grew up in the mostly red state of Ohio–a state that has produced more President’s than all others (7) except for Virginia (8). To understand Trump voters, you might want to read David … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Government, Immigration, Politics
Comments Off on Reasoning about why we vote the way we do
Debate analysis – Heather Cox Richardson
Posted in Government, Politics
Comments Off on Debate analysis – Heather Cox Richardson
First Atlantic cover with no typography or headline in 167 years
Thanks to Mike C.
Posted in Government, Politics
Comments Off on First Atlantic cover with no typography or headline in 167 years
My Grandma Has Dementia. Should I Help Her Vote?
By Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Ethicist in the NYT My grandma has relatively advanced Alzheimer’s disease and hearing loss. At 97, she’s still present enough to recognize her loved ones and enjoy our company, but it’s becoming nearly impossible to communicate … Continue reading