Corporate malfeasance, i.e., knowingly putting a deadly product into the stream of commerce and promoting its use for profit knowing that it can kill its intended users is as old as the Republic. It was The Jungle by Upton Sinclair with its graphic descriptions of unsanitary conditions and unscrupulous practices rampant in the meatpacking industry that … Read more
In the movie 2001 A Space Odyessy, which came out a little over 15 months before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, several assumptions were made about a space-age Earth society that would exist in 2001. Among those assumptions were: Space Planes would take passengers to an International Space … Read more
Growing up in the the 1960s, I followed the NASA space program like I followed my favorite baseball teams. I knew the names of the astronauts as well as the baseball players on my Topps trading cards. I had a collection of plastic models of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecrafts, and of the lunar … Read more
When Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in November 2018 to lying to Congress, the documents filed with his plea deal didn’t explicitly name the person on whose behalf he had lied. It called him “Individual 1.” There was never any doubt that “Individual 1” was President Donald Trump. Michael Cohen: “Individual 1 is Donald J. Trump”: … Read more
In the chaos theory of governance of the Trump administration, so much craziness happens every day that it is easy to overlook important events in the din of noise. Which is really the whole point of chaos theory. Trump wants to overwhelm the senses with the vast volume of his craziness every day so that … Read more