by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 16, 2019 | • Politics
Conservative Men Are Obsessed With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Science Tells Us Why. Conservatives’ bizarre, escalating obsession with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) reached a new level this week when The Daily Caller published fake revenge porn of the new...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 10, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
Since 1982, America’s Three Wealthiest Families Have Grown 6,000% Richer – The Intellectualist America’s three wealthiest families have seen their wealth grow nearly 6,000 percent in just one generation, according to a recent report, while median...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 6, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
I have been listening to talks by Mark Blyth ( Wikipedia) all this weekend and he is changing my mind about a lot of things. I find myself thinking NeoLiberalism is more and more dangerous and destructive than I had ever thought before. Mark Blyth is a professor of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 5, 2019 | • Politics, Atheism, Religion
One of the reasons I love and miss the late Christoher Hitchens (1949 — December...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 3, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump
More coal plants shut down in Trump’s first two years than in Obama’s entire first term The last time U.S. coal consumption was this low, Jimmy Carter was president. Despite campaigning on a pledge to save the dirtiest of fossil fuels, President Donald...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 3, 2019 | • Politics
Why Americans Get Socialism and Capitalism Backwards If Capitalism Made People Rich, and Socialism Made People Poor, Why Did Americans End Up Broke, Powerless, and Exploited? It was a very entertaining and funny comment, simmering with rage, boiling with entitlement....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 26, 2018 | • Politics
Published in 2013… A two-minute excerpt from a General Motors video is a classic example of how easy it is to con American citizens into voting for the wrong politicians. By totally misrepresenting how working-class living standards improved, conservatives have...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 23, 2018 | Religion
Scientists prove Turin Shroud not genuine (again) The Turin Shroud is a fake. That is the verdict of Catholic Bishop Pierre d’Arcis who has written to tell the Pope it was “a clever sleight of hand” by someone “falsely declaring this was the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 19, 2018 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Corey Robin via Facebook alerted me to this great essay on “the Trump as fascist thesis”… Dylan Riley: What Is Trump?. New Left Review 114, November-December 2018. The pitfalls of bad historical analogizing laid bare in ubiquitous attempts to...
