Published

2 years ago

June 25, 2024

Alice Rush

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich says: Every day the Supreme Court fails to make a decision in Trump’s immunity case is effectively a decision in his favor. They’re acting like an arm of Trump’s campaign by letting him run out the clock on his prosecution.

This is unsavory, to say the least; it’s a totally unprecedented travesty of justice, a disgrace to this once-fine nation.

Yet it’s quite unlikely that Trump will be able to “run out the clock on his prosecution” and walk away a free man.

For that to occur, he’d have to be re-elected. And even that won’t get him off the hook in Georgia, where he and 18 coconspirators are charged with a broad variety of felonies under the RICO Act.

The U.S. Supreme Court and Trump’s Immunity Case

Renewable Energy

Is Bullying a Bad Thing? Not if We Want a Society of Brutality

Published

11 hours ago

March 28, 2026

Alice Rush

Does this guy have a solid point?

Is war a bad thing? What about rape and torture?

Do they point to weaknesses that must be strengthened?

Is Bullying a Bad Thing? Not if We Want a Society of Brutality

Renewable Energy

What Makes a President a King?

Published

14 hours ago

March 28, 2026

Alice Rush

Maybe the protestors are less concerned about length of time in office, and more with criminal authoritarianism.

What Makes a President a King?

Renewable Energy

Blaise Pascal, Renaissance Man–Literally

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18 hours ago

March 28, 2026

Alice Rush

I have such respect for Pascal that I considered naming our son after him. (My wife wasn’t having it. Maybe if we lived in France?)

Pascal made important contributions to both math and physics but he’s perhaps best known for his philosophic “wager,” that it makes sense to believe in God, since if He exists, you’ll be very glad you did, and if He doesn’t, you haven’t lost anything. I counter that this is not how we accept or reject religious tenets.