Rick is on a Roll! The Stunning Sincerity of Rick "Nehemiah" Santorum
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is truly on a roll. Feeling his oats, he has been laying down a hardcore line. And if this one week is any sample, we are in for one heckuva ride.He...
View ArticleSantorum Part II: More Choice Samplings of Culture War
Well, he survived the debate and we're all breathlessly awaiting the results from Michigan and Arizona, to see if this marvelous theater will go on. My own fascination with Rick Santorum is partly...
View ArticleSantorum Part III: The ironic winners, if he prevails
Okay, we’ve had a brief survey of our generation’s would-be Nehemiah Scudder. Just last week’s short list of recent “Santor-isms” was enough to give any modern or compassionate or sane person the...
View ArticleUnscientific America — Denying Science at Our Peril
Increasingly, scientific consensus is failing to influence public policy. Facts, statistics and data appear insufficient to change highly politicized minds... and science has started scrutinizing...
View ArticleTake the Wager Challenge -- and push back Culture War
The brilliance of Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, Prince Waleed and their clade never ceases to impress me. Twenty years ago, they were subsidizing Rush Limbaugh and the neoconservatives to spread what's...
View ArticleRepublican Salvation? RAISE THE GIPPER! ... (and more)
* NEWS FLASH - see my totally refurbished web site (http://www.davidbrin.com) and especially the cool page on EXISTENCE!* Get your blue civil war Union "kepi" hat... the symbol for this summer and...
View ArticleAre You Ready For Existence?
Here's a pair of links you'll love, and that you'll want to pass along. First, a40 second teaser for my new novel EXISTENCE!Then go for the real treat - a full, three minute preview trailer of the...
View ArticleA victory in our right to look back… plus online “Brin Events”
= First a quick update about coming online events =* A limited number of folks can join me in a "book tour" video-conference on Shindig (beta) on June 14 at 3 pm PDT... sign up in advance at...
View ArticleThe "Tytler" Insult -- Is Democracy Hopeless?
Well... it's back. One of the best examples of a mass-hypnotic pseudo-wisdom that helps to lobotomize politics in American life."A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a...
View ArticleEight causes of the deficit "fiscal cliff." Which party is most responsible?
To many U.S. voters, one issue towers foremost -- the Fiscal Cliff of rising public debt. We appear to have come a long way since Vice President Dick Cheney famously said "deficits don't matter."...
View ArticleHow Democrats and Republicans Wage War
For a version of this that has all the links and illustrations, visit http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/...Last year finally saw the end of America's second-longest war. Dragging on a decade, that was the...
View ArticleA trick for individual citizens to bypass gerrymandering
Here is my personal posting of the article that Salon Magazine recently featured, on how U.S. citizens might, one at a time and each of us, strike a blow against the worst political criminals since the...
View ArticleRick is on a Roll! The Stunning Sincerity of Rick "Nehemiah" Santorum
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is truly on a roll. Feeling his oats, he has been laying down a hardcore line. And if this one week is any sample, we are in for one heckuva ride.He...
View ArticleSantorum Part II: More Choice Samplings of Culture War
Well, he survived the debate and we're all breathlessly awaiting the results from Michigan and Arizona, to see if this marvelous theater will go on. My own fascination with Rick Santorum is partly...
View ArticleSantorum Part III: The ironic winners, if he prevails
Okay, we’ve had a brief survey of our generation’s would-be Nehemiah Scudder. Just last week’s short list of recent “Santor-isms” was enough to give any modern or compassionate or sane person the...
View ArticleUnscientific America — Denying Science at Our Peril
Increasingly, scientific consensus is failing to influence public policy. Facts, statistics and data appear insufficient to change highly politicized minds... and science has started scrutinizing...
View ArticleTake the Wager Challenge -- and push back Culture War
The brilliance of Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, Prince Waleed and their clade never ceases to impress me. Twenty years ago, they were subsidizing Rush Limbaugh and the neoconservatives to spread what's...
View ArticleRepublican Salvation? RAISE THE GIPPER! ... (and more)
* NEWS FLASH - see my totally refurbished web site (http://www.davidbrin.com) and especially the cool page on EXISTENCE!* Get your blue civil war Union "kepi" hat... the symbol for this summer and...
View ArticleAre You Ready For Existence?
Here's a pair of links you'll love, and that you'll want to pass along. First, a40 second teaser for my new novel EXISTENCE!Then go for the real treat - a full, three minute preview trailer of the...
View ArticleA victory in our right to look back… plus online “Brin Events”
= First a quick update about coming online events =* A limited number of folks can join me in a "book tour" video-conference on Shindig (beta) on June 14 at 3 pm PDT... sign up in advance at...
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