Mommy, Where Do Democracies Come From?
Why Think About the Question? In school we learned about the Growth of Democracy. The ancient Greek city-states invented it, but most societies were too primitive to be governed in this way. It was not ....
Author: bklinger
Europe: Strategic Snapshot
Comparing Economies With talk of open warfare between Russia and Ukraine lately, now is a good time to look at a strategic snapshot of Europe. The figure shows all the countries of Europe (excluding those ....
Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun
The Jan/Feb edition of The Atlantic has a good summary by Barton Gellman of how democracy in the United States is in mortal danger. Since the article is rather long, I summarize it here. [If ....
Nerds in Bed
Usually Girl dives right into the ocean of sleep and it is Boy whose mind wanders in the dark from island to island. One time near the beginning, Girl was the one who couldn’t sleep. ....
How to Show that Covid Dangers are a Government Fantasy
Mainstream Media, Academia, Government Says Covid Killed almost 800k Americans The mainstream media claims that Covid is a dangerous disease which is so deadly that the government has to intrude into private citizens’ lives to ....
How Well is Vaccination Protecting Us?
For Americans 50-79 years old, Covid deaths among the unvaccinated were about half as large as deaths from all causes in 2019. Among vaccinated from the same age group, Covid deaths were about 3% of ....
American Immigrants to America
Book Review: The Warmth of Other Suns, The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isobel Wilkerson, 2010 http://warmth.isabelwilkerson.com/ When I was reading the description of a black sharecropping family stealthily preparing to leave their ....
State Covid Rates Decrease with Vaccination – Or Do They?
The CDC reports that, based on a survey of health data from regions comprising about 30% of the total US population, in August vaccinated people had six time’s smaller chance of testing positive for Covid ....
My Latest Display Background
Latest picture I'm using for a screen background. This started as a blurry photo I took through a moving car's window as we were driven around the Dalmatian Coast a few years ago. It shows ....
His Brother the Comedian
“I love the Puerto Rican people. I go to Puerto Rico every year just to visit my hubcaps.” -Jackie Mason, The World According to Me (1988), 16:30 Here’s the first thing I should have said ....