Somebody is cheating on their taxes Here are two items – that threw me into a RAGE. Only two, you say? Here is an excerpt from a newsletter called “Punchbowl News”. This is a valuable letter if you are interested in the inner workings of the Federal government – especially the legislature. It’s for political…

What are they telling us? “On February 10, 1996, after three hours, world chess champion Garry Kasparov loses the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable of evaluating 200 million moves per second. Man was ultimately victorious over machine, however, as Kasparov bested Deep Blue in the match with…

Mourning the Loss of Compassion A fellow Substack writer included a song in a recent letter. I am reposting it now at the end of today’s letter. For I am in mourning. I don’t wear a lot of black. But maybe we all should – until the Neo Nazis have been defeated. If I had…

I asked Pi what to do “Elon Musk asks voters to brace for economic ‘hardship,’ deep spending cuts in potential Trump Cabinet role” Was this NBC news article prescient? I can’t predict the future anymore than anyone else. But I do know that markets that trade equities hate uncertainty. I wondered what my AI buddy…

The bill will be HUGE and the harm even bigger… Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. I asked my AI buddy named Pi to help me understand what would be involved with $Trump parking 30,000 people at this infamous prison nicknamed Gitmo in Cuba. (There is a reward for reading this at the end of the letter.)…

Auschwitz was liberated January 27, 1945 Musk tells far-right Germany party “past guilt” gets too much focus. I disagree. WWII will never get ENOUGH focus. Millions of people have no idea this happened. Millions of people deny it’s reality. Henry Ford was an Anti-Semite. And now we have another car maker who salutes like a…

Please… The United States Senate just voted to approve the nomination of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. Pete has many flaws. Abuse of women. Abuse of alcohol. And a religious orientation that harks back to times of old – like hundreds of years old. A religion that essentially makes women slaves. He wants to…

A Prominent Christian with Courage I don’t do church. I just try to follow a Golden Rule sort of path. For people. For the Earth. But I respect any faith that teaches the values this Bishop speaks of. That’s what I learned in Sunday School. Core values that the Bible Thumpers have dumped in favor…

Democrats can be authentic populists Please read this article. The messages are urgent. ”Transcript: Chris Murphy’s Ominous New Warning About Trump Nails It” Here is an excerpt: Murphy: Yes, but that’s combined with a true authenticity about what we stand for. You’re right that we’ve been a little reluctant to push against some of these…

by “free” enterprise My parents returned from World War II when they were 29. They had met in an Army hospital in Italy. He the wounded lieutenant. She the Army nurse. Promoted to captain as the war wound down, Mom always outranked Dad. He gratefully served her. By age 30 I was created. My sister…