A PLAGUE OF ANARCHIC SOCIOPATHIC MINDSETS (…from induced insanities for violence) The latest mass-killing incident in Oregon, along with the three other gun-violence situations, hard on the heels of that one, suggests we’re facing a plague of anarchic sociopathic mindsets…from

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ARE WE NOW PIMPING FOR PUTIN’S PUTAISSMO IN SYRIA… (… just because we really don’t want to be more involved than we are already?) By openly increasing Russia’s presence in the Syrian civil war, Putin has made an opportunistic whore’s

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THEIR CHEATING HEARTS… (…have become the preferred way to game their market positions) The latest scandal involving Volkswagen, which up until now was the epitome of quality, reliability, and rectitude, seems to be just another sorry example of how corrupt

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CAN THERE EVER BE ANOTHER THERE…THERE? (…and will we ever be able to get there…from here?) Based upon the state of our scientists’ knowledge and understanding about conditions on Mars, it seems that it was not always the cold, arid,

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LOOKS LIKE MARS MAY BE…ALL WET (…because it seems there’s water in those hills of it!) NASA just announced that from the data collected by their surveying satellite over our neighboring planet it now looks like Mars may be…all wet…because

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WHEN IDEOLOGICAL RIGIDITY OVER RIDES FLEXIBLE COMMON SENSE… (…it just screws up effective governance for anything else) At the peak of all the pomp and circumstance for almost concurrent state visits by the Pope and the President of Communist China,

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BLURRING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL DIVIDE BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE (…as Congress enthusiastically welcomed a charismatic Pope with multiple ovations) Pope Francis’ arrival in America has had all the appearance of another Beatles invasion, complete with wildly cheering and enthusiastic throngs mobbing

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SWITCHING ON OUR IMMORTALITY GENES … (…we should live so long?) We’re apparently not just reaching out for the stars these days, but are now on the threshold of switching on our “immortality” genes besides. That’s right, molecular biology researchers

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REVERSING THAT TSUNAMI OF DESPERATION (by doing what should have been done at the very beginning…) It’s time to quit the diplomatic pussyfooting around with the Syrian situation, which is the main cause of the massive migrant and refugee flood

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AN AQUISITION TO FURTHER EXPAND A UNIBRAND WORLD… (…as the Starbucks big-brand machine rolls over a quality competitor…) In a way this is a tale of two cities where, in each one, a decade or so apart, two high quality

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