The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Engineering Stupidity What if the nub of our calamity is that the powerful believe themselves to be divinely chosen to rule over people they have decided are weak and stupid, and so conspire to render them even more so? JOHN WATERS Between Good, Evil & Idiocy What if, in all the public crimes of the past 51 months,  we were missing the most heinous of them all? It seems implausible. What if this crime was, in a sense, the only crime among the lot that might be said to have incorporated all the others? What if it was, as the final objective of the demented orchestrators of the, yes,  conspiracy , the ultimate purpose of an operation that had been in train for many years before its machinations were observed above ground? What if this was the crime that explained everything, solved all the mysteries and, in its exposure, rendered pointless all the hours and days we had spent in seeking to explain things that seemed to have no cause or meaning other than the purest, ar...

Now Is The Perfect Time To Talk About Damar Hamlin The social contagion of emotions around public events that shock. Good Citizen 11 3 They gathered the children around the portable boxy Televisions on wheeled platforms and made them sit “Indian style” facing the screens in anticipation of what they learned the day before about space exploration and landing a man on the moon. They didn’t mention Stanley Kubrick, strange shadows, portable cameras, radio wave transmission speeds, or a warehouse in the Nevada Desert. The children learned about the space shuttle, the booster rockets, and a school teacher “hero” from New Hampshire named Christa McAuliffe who would be on board the challenger the next day. It was to be one small step for women, one giant leap for school teachers. The excitement of the school teachers in anticipation of the televised event spread to most of the school children. And then something happened that wasn’t supposed to happen and the shock and horror on the school te...