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Unhappy Hallowe'en – Round and Round the Fascists Go

Professor Matt Warshauer – the Mindful Professor who teaches history at Central Connecticut State University – has put up his annual political Hallowe’en display, and as usual, it does not disappoint. This is his website, for anyone who wants to see every display he has ever created: https://themindfulprofessor.org/ Professor Warshauer has made a merry-go-round about fascism this time. The…

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It’s Earth Overshoot Day – Again, and Well Before the Year is Over

It’s August 2, 2023. It’s Earth Overshoot Day…for the planet as a whole. For individual nations, the dates vary, depending on the standard of living for each one. The higher that standard, the more resource use, and thus the earlier the Overshoot Day for whichever nation you focus on.   We’ve done it again: we humans have reproduced way too much, put far more pressure on our planet’s ecosystems…

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Population 8 Billion – Congratulations, Humans: We Have Over-Reproduced!

It’s official: as of November 15, 2022, there are 8 billion humans on the planet Earth. For full details, visit: https://www.worldometers.info Congratulations, humans – in just 12 years, we have increased our numbers by another billion. United Nations estimates for our milestones of billions of humans are: 1804: We hit 1 billion humans. 1927: 2 billion humans. 1960: 3 billion humans. 1974: 4…

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Intrigue On a Longship Cruise – A Novel and a Travelogue…and a Threat to Understand

Intrigue On a Longship Cruise – A Novel and a Travelogue…and a Threat to Understand

4 years ago, I took a river cruise up the Rhône in the South of France with my mother. I wrote a blog post about it, complete with photographs, and this is the story that developed from that trip. It was a wonderful experience, and we met lots of interesting and nice people, both the passengers and the crew of our ship. My mother exhorted me to write a murder mystery that takes place on the ship,…

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Happy Hallowe’en – Putin Set Maximum-Security Felons on Ukraine

Happy Hallowe’en – Putin Set Maximum-Security Felons on Ukraine

As I have watched and read the news reports about the ongoing genocide in Ukraine, I have wondered about the soldiers that Putin sent there. The question that nagged at me was, what sort of soldiers are these, who are committing so many war crimes? We live in an age with many treaties against such practices, and there is an International Criminal Court to deal with perpetrators of them. The…

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Unhappy Earth Overshoot Day 2022 to Humans – We’re Stupid

Unhappy Earth Overshoot Day 2022 to Humans – We’re Stupid

It’s Earth Overshoot Day again. July 28th, 2022 – we have done it again, topping, as usual, the foolish behavior of previous years. As a planet-full of humans, we’ve used up all of the resources that the Earth can generate in a year…with more than 5 months left in it. Here are some graphics from the Global Footprint Network to illustrate this point:   If we all lived like the people in wealthy,…

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Forced Births and Guns, Guns, Guns!

Forced Births and Guns, Guns, Guns!

There is nothing quite like an originalist. That’s what is currently infesting the U.S. Supreme Court, along with religiousness. Welcome to the slippery slope to dystopian fascist religious rule – we have slid down it. They have eviscerated the right to abortion in our Constitution. Ending Constitutional Right to Abortion, Supreme Court Reshapes U.S. Politics The ruling eliminating the…

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Unhappy Mother’s Day Due to Forced Birthing

Unhappy Mother’s Day Due to Forced Birthing

I knew I would find myself writing this post soon. Forced birtherism is poisonous to a functioning society. The U.S. Supreme Court is effectively ruined. Ketanji Brown Jackson won’t be able to do anything about this. She’s not even there yet, much as we are glad that she is headed there. She is certainly a worthy successor to Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Amy Coney Barrett – a.k.a. Justice Handmaid – is…

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Polonium Chicken Kyiv

No, that’s not something I can serve up, despite my reputation for writing about gourmet food in my novels and making my readers hungry. I don’t have a science lab, nor access to polonium. I’m a dystopian science fiction writer who peppers her novels with details of what the characters cook, bake, and eat. It’s just fun, and it fills out a picture of their lives as a story moves…

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It's All About Leverage

It’s All About Leverage

We are dealing with a problem of leverage: who has it, who doesn’t, and a refusal to accept it. Geography, access to resources, military might, and autocracy versus democracy determine who has it, who wants it, who can keep it, and who can take it away – and what others can do about it, if anything. Vlad the Invader’s siege of Ukraine continues. Hopefully, Volodymyr Zelenskyy shall continue to…

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Promulgate Democracy Against Authoritarianism

Authoritarianism is easier to wield than democracy. It doesn’t require skill, nor does it require the effort involved in thinking and negotiation. We in the democratic world know that authoritarians don’t care what we think or want. The authoritarian ruler of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to get right on with it and name a name, just wants what he wants, and damn anyone else who objects. To that end,…

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Why Tout and Promulgate Democracy?

Why Tout and Promulgate Democracy?

Not for its own sake or glory. Not for the philanthropic appeal of it. No. The reason is for the internal security of the democratic state that touts and promulgates it. The more other democratic nations that exist and that are friendly with a democratic one, the better for it. The same is true for the antithesis of a democratic nation – an authoritarian nation. The more nations like it that it…

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Happy Hallowe'en: The Ecosystem is Crashing and Democracy is Committing Suicide.

Happy Hallowe’en: The Ecosystem is Crashing and Democracy is Committing Suicide.

Happy Hallowe’en! There is plenty to be scared about, and it’s getting worse. The current population of humans on our planet is 7.899 billion – far too many for the ecosystem to support. www.worldometers.info Human activity is crashing the Earth’s ecosystem. That’s the short story. The long story – the details – are what make it scary. It’s the month of Hallowe’en, with the proverbial devil in…

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Unhappy Earth Overshoot Day 2021. We Are 7.88 Billion Humans – Far Too Many

Unhappy Earth Overshoot Day 2021. We Are 7.88 Billion Humans – Far Too Many

Unhappy Early Overshoot Day everyone! It’s earlier than last year…as expected, since we humans keep on reproducing and depleting the Earth’s resources and living space. As an author of a dystopian science fiction series on human overpopulation and ecosystems collapse, posting about Earth Overshoot Day is an annual tradition with me – one that is done earlier each year, sounding the alarm with…

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Vaccines, Vaccine Hesitancy, and Anti-Vax Idiocy

Vaccines, Vaccine Hesitancy, and Anti-Vax Idiocy

It is high time that the police power of the state be invoked via the case Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), to require that all Americans get vaccinated against the Coronavirus pandemic, whether they wish to do so, or not. That case was about a guy from Boston who didn’t want the smallpox vaccine. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he had to do so, because he lived in a big city, and…

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The Fix Was In. The GOP Politicians Didn’t ‘Fail’ to Convict Trump. They Refused.

The Fix Was In. The GOP Politicians Didn’t ‘Fail’ to Convict Trump. They Refused.

So, as expected, the majority of the GOP senators refused to convict Trump of the charge of incitement to riot on the U.S. Capitol, despite having narrowly survived the attack, and despite the fact that the trial was held at the scene of the crime. They must be immune to flashbacks. We don’t know that, of course, but I can tell you what we do know. Our record for a peaceful transfer of power is…