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Government Shutdown, 2025
By now, the second day after the government shutdown of 2025, we all must have heard about it, and especially the Republican talking points that the Democrats are not going along with their “clean continuation funding bill” so that they can provide trillion dollar funding for healthcare for illegal immigrants using taxpayer money. It is…
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Breaking: New Discovery on the Causes of Autism
Disclaimer: this is by no means an attempt to deny the problem of autism or minimize the pain experienced by those who suffer from it and their families. Instead, it is my attempt at highlighting how abhorrent it sounds to make light of a serious medical problem in such an insensitive manner, just to score…
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Trump’s Assaults on the First Amendment Are Nothing New
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, while being quite short, covers several very important fundamental rights. It states that Congress cannot make a law that Of these, probably the most well-known right is the freedom of speech, so much so that in many contexts, the First Amendment and freedom of speech…
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Thou Shalt Not Have Bias
Corporate media’s obsession with providing equal coverage for all “points of view” or making sure that they do not criticize one party more than the other, is ridiculous and has nothing to do with fairness. Fairness does not mean giving platforms equally to truths and falsehoods. Social media is already providing ample opportunity for dissemination…
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Nothing to See Here!
I don’t mean to fuel the conspiracy theories that have been going around on the Internet over the last couple of days, but the recent sudden closure of the Jeffery Epstein case by the DoJ and the statement saying that there was no client list to begin with, indeed sounds quite suspicious. I can appreciate…
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Thinking Prohibited!
It spreads like plague, contaminating and infecting more and more organizations. After all, it’s so much easier to just do things without having to think about their consequences, or the very next steps that you may need to take. Even the supposedly proactive MO of “don’t ask for permission, ask for forgiveness,” that has been…