Author: Steve Ainslie

I am skeptical about counting on the government to solve our problems. My experience is that government usually responds too late and too insignificantly – long after I have dealt with (and suffered with) my dilemma for years – or even decades. I was listening to a podcast today when an example of this occurred….

There have been accusations and news reports that the Trump administration’s cuts to the Federal Workforce and Funding Programs are both devastating and inconsequential. I smell bullshit. Something isn’t adding up here. Opponents say the departments, positions, grants and funding cuts will be catastrophic resulting in deaths, disease, starvation, poverty and more. Then they say,…

Trump’s mass deportations and imprisonment of illegal immigrants (and any unfortunates who “mistakenly” get caught up in his overzealous deportation processes) feels unprecedented. Or, to be more precise,feel unprecedented in my lifetime. They may be new to me, but all it took was. little bit of reading for me to realize that mass deportations, chaotic…

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/people-i-mostly-admire/id1525936566?i=1000704954611 I am not going to thoroughly review the solution discussed in the podcast linked above. Instead, I encourage you to listen to it. I’ve written about gun violence in the US before. I’ve written about “lone wolf” shooters and about school shootings. But let’s face it – I don’t know shit about preventing shootings….

I was listening to a podcast discussing the growing wealth gap/income inequality between the average US household and the top .1%. It is huge and getting even bigger. Whatever. This is nothing new. The poor have always been getting f**ked over People wax poetic about the glory days of the US in the 1950s when…

I was listening to the news today in which a reporter pointed out another glaringly obvious hypocritical statement from a politician. The thought occurred to me: “Nobody who acts hypocritically cares.” When I was a teenager, I began to pay attention to hypocritical behavior and words expressed by religious leaders, parents, politicians, teachers and other…

At the end of February, my weight had risen to 148 lbs and I decided that I needed to do something about it. I am happy to report that 2 months later, I have dropped back down to 135 lbs. This is pretty much my ideal weight. I was here a few years ago before…

I don’t approve of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, it’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and its ongoing war on Ukraine (then again, per usual, nobody asked me). Now, 3 years later, after the US has given more than $128 billion to support Ukraine’s defense, I find myself thinking: “This is not my war.”…

Trump’s intimidation of the press via threats, investigations, lawsuits, harassment and ridicule to coerce them into obsequiousness are unlike anything I’ve seen during my lifetime. I am aware that these tactics have been used before by dictators and authoritarians across the globe, but not in US. It got me wondering if tactics like these ever…

Today is Easter and once again, I’m thinking about religion, traditions and holidays. Many years ago, I learned in an undergrad religious philosophy course that the dates of Christian Holy Days (ask Holidays) were selected to coincide with the dates of preexisting polytheistic Roman and Greek holidays, which in turn were based on paganistic holidays…