Published

5 months ago

February 22, 2026

Alice Rush

What do progressives hope for, given the runaway criminality of the U.S. president?

The woman at left is what is properly called a “radical,” from the Latin for “root.” Pull it out by its roots, or in this case, burn it to the ground. I’ve heard this viewpoint expressed dozens of times, most recently by the wife of an old school chum.

I’m as disgusted by the downward spiral that Trump is inflicting upon the United States is experiencing as the next guy, but I can’t get on board with this.

My message here: every decent U.S. citizen wants this turned around, but we can do this without ruining the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans. Trump is suffering a plummeting decline in voter supporter. We’re more than halfway home back to reason, compassion for others, and most of all, rule of law.

I appreciate how upset you are, but I beg you to reconsider.

Note to a True Radical

Renewable Energy

Wrong State

Published

6 hours ago

July 15, 2026

Alice Rush

Minnesota is home to intelligent, well-educated people whose approval of Trump is lower than that of toenail fungus.

If Lindell wants to lead a state, he needs to choose one at least 800 miles away. Oklahoma?

He may also want to consider that Trump is easily the most detested person in this nation.

Wrong State

Renewable Energy

The Existence of God

Published

7 hours ago

July 15, 2026

Alice Rush

I wouldn’t say that the burden of proof lies on religion. No one knows how the universe got here.

The Big Bang was an event in which there was no chaos, no “entropy,” as we say in thermodynamics. How did all this orderliness get there 13.87 billion years ago? No one knows. This is an issue in cosmology which is quite likely to outlast human civilization on this planet.

I’m an atheist for a few reasons, one of which is that saying that God created the universe doesn’t get us any closer to an understanding of the cosmos, if only because it raises the question: Who made God?

More to the point, there are hundreds of moral reasons to disbelieve in God. Each year, 9 million children will die unbaptized on this planet before their fifth birthdays. In the bible, we learn that God punishes them all with an eternity of torture in hell. To what sort of weirdo does this make sense?