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Speculation on Top: Oh Where Have You Gone Homo sapiens sapiens? — 2025 Update
“There is no magic wand, invisible hand, or strong and brilliant leader that can save us from our folly. If we believe that there is, then Pogo was right when he said so long ago, “We have met the enemy and he is us” “Trenz Pruca (Updated from my May...
Trenz Pruca 12/06/2025 10
The Privatization of Everything—A 2025 Reassessment
“The outsourcing of governmental services is the road to tyranny.” Trenz Pruca (A TPJ Update and Critique of My 2022 Review) By Trenz Pruca Introduction: Revisiting an Old Warning Several years ago—back in the summer of 2022—I wrote a post on Trenz...
Trenz Pruca 12/05/2025 7
Renewable Friday: I Get E-Mails
I have mostly been getting Global Warming news from Bluesky lately, and I have been preoccupied with COP30. I find that I have a backlog of climate-related e-mails. So today I am giving you the best of what I have received in the last month, with links...
Mokurai 12/05/2025 9
The Hierarchy of American Belief in Equality — 2025 Update
“Humans are not rational animals, but rationalizing ones.” Trenz Pruca I. Introduction: America’s Favorite Fairy Tale America loves to pretend it came into the world already dressed for the costume ball—powdered wig straight, Declaration crisp as...
Trenz Pruca 12/04/2025 14
Don't threaten us with a good time, Mike Johnson
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson faced questions Wednesday over his party’s disastrous underperformance in Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District—one that ...
kos 12/03/2025 118
AI Without Work: Elon Musk’s Feudal Future and the Return of the Lords
“The outsourcing of governmental services is the road to tyranny.” Trenz Pruca Every few months, usually after a spaceship launch or a media tantrum, Elon Musk appears on a stage somewhere and predicts that Artificial Intelligence will soon make work...
Trenz Pruca 12/03/2025 13
Given the Tennessee special election result, the GOP is so f'd in 2026
How do you win an election, yet still lose the night? While votes are still being counted, Republicans have held on to their House seat in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District by a ridiculously slim margin—single digits. This is a district Donald...
kos 12/02/2025 339
Trump’s Popularity: A 4-Week Snapshot — November 2025
You must be a republican if you believe that: Public schools are an unnecessary government expense but prisons are not. A minimum wage is a governmental intrusion in the private market but the oil depletion allowance for corporations to drill for oil...
Trenz Pruca 12/02/2025 1
BL: If music be the food of Boys' Love, play on
My apologies to Shakespeare for shamelessly ripping off his line. You know, I think Will would have appreciated Boys’ Love series. No, I have no idea about his sexuality or anything related to that, but just imagine the incredible stories he could have...
Krotor 12/02/2025 6
When Dealing with an Area’s Natural Resources a Little Nationalization Can Go a Long Way
“The only country that a corporation has allegiance to is its own management.” Trenz Pruca When Dealing with an Area’s Natural Resources a Little Nationalization and Mercantilism Can Go a Long Way — 2025 Update In 2012, I wrote that Argentina and...
Trenz Pruca 12/02/2025 8
Renewable Tuesday: A COP30 Reckoning is Coming
Far too many around the world consider that if the COP process does not immediately and totally condemn fossil fuels and order the end of their use, then the whole process is a failure. This is not ...
Mokurai 12/02/2025 23
The First Time America Treated Epidemics Like Military Threats— Trump Administration Kills It.
“Why would anyone be morally bound or wish to be morally bound to a civil society that does not share the goal that it’s citizens deserve a fair distribution of wealth, income and power? If the civil society is not dedicated to that end what else could...
Trenz Pruca 12/01/2025 5
GOP goes all-in on culture war—and it's not going great
In yet another sign the electorate is rejecting MAGA’s culture-war politics, Democrats swept school board elections in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. “From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, ...
kos 11/30/2025 232
Forgotton Women of History: Tomyris of the Massagetae
Speech to a man is not an invitation to a dialog as it is with women but the declaration, in a simple laconic statement, of their world view at the moment as uncontested fact — even if no one else either agrees or has any idea what he is talking about....
Trenz Pruca 11/30/2025 10

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