5 Jul, 2019
Happy Interdependence Day
“Over the years, the traditions and cultural feelings associated with holidays change; Mothers’ Day began as a peace holiday…” Author:...
24 Jun, 2019
Rethinking reparations
“Aaron Campbell was young, black, unarmed, and suffered from mental illness, exacerbated by his brother’s death that day…” Author: Tom...
25 May, 2019
Fake news about energy, clean and dirty
“I used to listen to Freakonomics, an interesting podcast, until it called nuclear energy clean and nonpolluting…” Author: Tom H....
17 May, 2019
Iran wags impeachment dog
“Trump is blustering at Iran and to the world that we might just need to crush that pipsqueak terror country…”...
6 Apr, 2019
Barr is just another word for obstruction
“We on the Portland Peace Team were invited out the other day to provide some nonviolent public safety…” Tom H....
10 Mar, 2019
In defense of being maladjusted
““I never intend to adjust myself to the evils of segregation and the crippling effects of discrimination…”” Tom H. Hastings...
27 Feb, 2019
O.N.E.
“Our National Embarrassment. Our National Emergency. There he is, residing for a minute in the White House, a minute that...
6 Feb, 2019
Understand the disease to cure it
“Two days ago, on February 4, 2019, the bodies of a handsome apparently successful husband and beautiful successful wife—Denise and...
23 Jan, 2019
TrumPutin: Who’s tired of winning now?
“One of the most brutal dictators on Earth, Vladimir Putin, is a happy despot these days…” Tom H. Hastings Published...
10 Jan, 2019
Adjust
“”They’ll make adjustments. They always do.” So said Donald Trump when a reporter asked him about the millions of people...
10 Jan, 2019
Crisis
“Donald Trump is a lousy teleprompter reader. His fake crisis speech from the Oval Office was clearly the product of...
18 Nov, 2018
Look to the right for corruption
“When I was growing up a long time ago there was a presumption of prudential integrity for politicians. Yes, I...
29 Oct, 2018
Trump’s Kristallnacht
“We are now moving past “mere” voter suppression and voter intimidation. We have arrived at voter assassination. It was almost...
21 Oct, 2018
Deal me out: Trump’s ego vs Earth
“We used to disparage someone by noting that their “ego is the size of Texas.” Does anyone say that about...
19 Oct, 2018
Calibrating for fake v real news
“I teach between 300-400 students every year and one of the most frequent concerns expressed by them is source reliability…”...