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Morning Reads from BillMoyers.com, June 13, 2016 (a little late!)

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

 From BillMoyers.com for June 13, 2016 – Morning Reads: The Preventable Tragedy in Orlando; Billionaires Out to Destroy Press Freedom Orlando –> Sometime just before 2 a.m. Sunday, a man named Omar Mateen entered a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, … Continue reading →

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Orlando Massacre: Pulse One = Stonewall too

Posted on June 12, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The framing of that meme of “the worst act of mass shooting in US history” comes not only as an “act of terror and an act of hate” but also raises some other peripheral issues in the early … Continue reading →

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Owls and Lemmings – shared last meals

Posted on June 8, 2016 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers It is of course a first-world conceit and problematic to talk about last meals on earth when some have trouble getting daily meals at all. OTOH don’t we all like to speculate about penultimate pleasure, except … Continue reading →

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The Story of the Taoist Farmer

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

A Chinese folktale: A man who lived on the northern frontier of China was skilled in interpreting events. One day, for no reason, his horse ran away to the nomads across the border. Everyone tried to console him, but his father … Continue reading →

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Under tRump, cockroaches will have unenumerated, unimpeachable rights and envy the dead

Posted on June 6, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers If we thought the End of the Republic happened when Monica Lewinsky got a TED talk, surprise -— Donald Trump could become POTUS, just as he states that Latino or Muslim judges could be unfair to him. Sonia Sotomayor will … Continue reading →

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Goodbye Person of Interest, gone but forever prescient

Posted on June 4, 2016 by ann li-summers

Despite appearances, I am not that avid a Person of Interest fan, I just like the strength/flaws of Shaw/Root…a symphony.  The program was basically the problem of machine intelligence and the role of human ethics in its construction with a … Continue reading →

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A historic moment revealing a Pyhrric defeat for Trump

Posted on May 31, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Even as Trump tried to make canceling a Sanders-Trump debate this week in Caifornia into a positive meme (“I don’t debate second-place candidates”), he lost because his ditching a debate in the Iowa GOP primary using the … Continue reading →

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From SteamPunk to Trumpunk’d Americans… a libertarian/GOP social-media battle/alliance

Posted on May 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

 By ann summers From SteamPunk to Trumpunk’d Americans… a libertarian/GOP social media battle/alliance to come or will Bernie’s youth followers vote their real interests. It’s more than Hillary’s gaffe about the need to redirect coal producing communities but to make sure that the … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk & Aeon Flux: will Mars be only for the 1%

Posted on May 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

A million folks on Mars could be the Earth’s Plan B Continue reading →

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The GOP has been Trumpunk’d

Posted on May 29, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers This 2016 national election is a scaled -up version of the celebrity prank program Punk’d. It is a spectacle on the scale of big Dada rather than big data. We’re now stuck with a prairie fire of well-combed Astrorturftm. … Continue reading →

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