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Those We Neglect to Thank in Life
I’m easy enough with giving everyday thanks, and you probably are as well.
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Jim Freeman
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If You Torture Them Sufficiently, Polls Will Confess to Anything
The same has been said of statistics, but one poll finds the majority of Greenland respondents support joining the United States.
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Jim Freeman
2025, the Year the Economic 1% Planted Their Flag
They’ve been preparing for this invasion ever since Reagan.
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The California Grid Ran on 100% Renewables with No Blackouts or Cost Rises for a Record 98 Days
While I’m writing this, a big hunk of Los Angeles is burning down.
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In This New Year, we Can Have an Actual Uniting of the Nations of the World, or We Can Have a Five-Nation Veto, but We Cannot Have Both
Welcome to 2025, the 80th anniversary of the United Nations.
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Jim Freeman

December 2024

Countdown to the End of the Trump-Musk Bromance
Donald Trump has shown us who he is, over a remarkable period of time.
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Jim Freeman
The Pentagon: Unlikely Scenarios Meet Unintended Consequences
“It is part of the Pentagon’s job to imagine unlikely scenarios.” So says an Atlantic article, which is both a long-read, and fascinating.
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Jim Freeman
Never Before Has America Been So Angry
And I’ve lived in all (or part) of ten decades, so I know whereof I speak.
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Bandwagons, We Americans Never Tire of Bandwagons
A bandwagon is defined as “a popular trend that attracts growing support.” It’s a holdover from the times when a wagon, with a band onboard, would wend…
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Jim Freeman
Things Are Rarely as Good as You Hope, nor as Bad as You Fear
“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever, and convinced the trees that, because his handle was made of…
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Jim Freeman
Unbound by Non-Binding Laws, the Human Species Slinks into Oblivion
But at least America is proudly leading the way.
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The Achilles Heel of Living in a Republic
It would be a good thing to stop calling America a democracy, because it is not, and has never been.
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Jim Freeman
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