Dear President Trump, Firing Director Comey is just the latest episode in your over-the-top made-for-TV mini-(I hope)-series, a surprise dramatic twist that really makes perfect sense even if the logic offered is painfully obviously flawed and was just a bone thrown out because you had to say something, anything. Unfortunately, while it has all the … Continue reading As many Achilles’ heels as an octopus
Critical Thinking
Shortsighted cruelty
Dear President Trump, The issue that I'm feeling most strongly about today is the healthcare bill that would allow states to decide whether to require insurance companies cover people with pre-existing conditions at the same rates as other people. From a public health and economic standpoint this is the epitome of shortsightedness. Such a provision … Continue reading Shortsighted cruelty
Positivity – day 6, sound arguments
Dear President Trump, Last night I read an article about a particular approach to problem-solving and it reminded me how much I appreciate a well thought out and reasoned position or argument. Granted, the article got a boost in this regard since I read it right after reading your interview with Julie Pace, which I … Continue reading Positivity – day 6, sound arguments
All things in moderation. Really?
Dear President Trump, In case you were wondering, I woke up feeling much better today. Still sore and tender, but healing up and the malaise is gone. Today I've been thinking about the phrase "moderation in all things." I'm not sure why it popped into my head but it did. I've realized that at both … Continue reading All things in moderation. Really?
Scared witless, early to middle-stage dementia, or both
Dear President Trump, For the most part I have avoided watching your press conferences or reading your speeches and interviews. They are so painful to witness because I disagree with you on the content so profoundly and I find them embarrassing. Yesterday though, I ended up watching your press conference with King Abdullah and reading … Continue reading Scared witless, early to middle-stage dementia, or both
You can’t logic your way out of a hat
Dear President Trump, I realize you don't care and will never know, but the day rather got away from me so this is going to be short. Rather than launching into a substantive topic about one of the many ways you and your administration are screwing things up for the vast majority of the earth's … Continue reading You can’t logic your way out of a hat
It won’t work to just impeach you and install Pence
Dear President Trump, Today seems like a good day to start with a blessing; May you be safe. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May your life unfold and intersect peacefully. We've all known it was coming but having Director Comey definitively say that the FBI is investigating whether your campaign worked with … Continue reading It won’t work to just impeach you and install Pence
Your karma needs all the help it can get
Dear President Trump, I think others have tried to explain how you use fake news to us before, but it wasn't until I was puzzling (again) over the apparently irrational and stupid claim that the British secret service was involved in wiretapping you that I finally understood what you are doing. Basically, no matter how … Continue reading Your karma needs all the help it can get
“Belief + Doubt = Sanity”
Dear President Trump, Perhaps there is some hope after all. Right now it seems to be just a tiny chink in the wall of rhetoric about immigrants without legal status, perhaps a tiny bit of doubt about the uncompromisingly harsh stance that has characterized your administration thus far. If you were to follow through and … Continue reading “Belief + Doubt = Sanity”
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