My Internet Rants – in Blog Form
As an Atheist, I can not embrace the term “non-believer” for myself – as doing that would validate the notion that beliefs that I do not hold count more than the beliefs that I do hold. The term “non-believer” is Read more
To help counter the epidemic of voter suppression, maybe it is time for an amendment to tie a state’s representation in Congress to the state’s voting population rather than to the state’s general population. The Great State of Tennessee is Read more
Pete Buddigieg believes that Democrats should embrace religion more in order to oust Trump from the United States Presidency. But in reality, such a plan, in addition to being far from certain to succeed, can have long-term consequences that might Read more
Mira Ryczke Kimmelman (September 17, 1923 – April 17, 2019) survived the World War II Holocaust and dedicated the rest of her life to preventing such things from happening again. One thing that has always been true is that there Read more
Second wave feminism coined the phrase: “The personal is political”. This phrase has great wisdom – but the reverse can also be true – the political is personal. In the 1999 movie, Analyze This, Mafia boss Paul Vitti (portrayed by Read more
Some people (mostly Republicans) are already trying to portray the Democrats who oppose the death penalty as being soft on crime. But if they play their cards right, perhaps these anti-death-penalty Democrats can make the pro-death-penalty politicians regret such a Read more
It is important to have public policy to protect against diseases spread by people who refuse to vaccinate themselves and their children. But it can be disastrous if one allows efforts to enforce such policy to be tainted by the Read more
Every time that there have been calls to abolish the Electoral College, those calls were met with apologetics to justify the retention of that institution. However, as always, upon closer examinations, the arguments put forth by the Electoral College’s apologists Read more
The Democratic Party, to succeed, needs to make it clear to voters that it is the party that cares about the economically disadvantaged people of this country, whether the financial difficulty is due to racial oppression, disability, healthcare costs, or Read more
Yes, we get it, Jewish tribal identity is validly a thing. But it is time for more religious Jews to accept that Jewish ethnic identity is also a valid thing and stop dismissing it. This past week, someone forwarded to Read more