Unquestionably Fascist: American GOP Today Sounds Like 1932 Mussolini

I’ve warned about this here since at least 2008. And if you look back at my tweets nearly a decade after that (2016) I’m not mincing any words. That crazy-sounding excerpt of text I’m tweeting out, in case it’s not clear, is literally a page from Mussolini’s infamous 1932 “The Doctrine of Fascism” (technically ghost … Continue reading Unquestionably Fascist: American GOP Today Sounds Like 1932 Mussolini

“Fight Club” Ruling by Racist Judge Overturned, Yet Threat Grows in America

A US judge in southern California tried to rule that “freedom of speech” protects “fight clubs” meant to spread across the U.S. even when they clearly exist only to physically terrorize people. On multiple occasions, [southern California white supremacist street-fighting gang] members showed up at protests in California and at the violent Unite the Right … Continue reading “Fight Club” Ruling by Racist Judge Overturned, Yet Threat Grows in America

2015: A Non-Meat Diet Has HUGE Positive Environmental Impact

It seems like a million years ago I was on a platform called Twitter, where I posted insights like this one: Hard to believe I ever willingly used a product called “MetroTwit”. Anyway, the Global Calculator Tool was something brought to my attention by economists at LSE. I ran all the possible outcomes (based on … Continue reading 2015: A Non-Meat Diet Has HUGE Positive Environmental Impact