by Heather Hastie | Feb 1, 2018 | Religion, Tweets, US Politics
I follow the tweets and Facebook postings of Economist Robert Reich. As a result I just found out that not all USians contribute the same proportion of their income to Social Security. There’s a cap at US$120,000. So people who earn big salaries – exactly...
by Heather Hastie | Jan 30, 2018 | Tweets
Well, the inevitable happened. My head exploded while watching Fox News’s ‘The Five’ again today. Why? Well they, of course, used Hillary Clinton’s appearance on the Grammy’s to have a segment criticizing her. You’d think she was...
by Heather Hastie | Jan 24, 2018 | Tweets, US Politics
Today’s homily was going to be about the bad decision by Donald Trump and the Republicans to put a 30% tariff on imported solar panels. I’m running out of time to write what I think here, so instead I’m just going to copy in the text of a series of...
by Heather Hastie | Jan 22, 2018 | Science & Nature, Tweets, US Politics
There is so much that is execrable to comment on in the Trump Administration, too much just goes under the radar. Covering Trump’s tweets every day is a full time job in itself. While he accuses others of fake news, his own outright lies are legion. The...
by Heather Hastie | Jan 17, 2018 | Human Rights, Tweets
One of the tweets I posted here recently was one of my own. It was a Big Think video entitled ‘The Chronology of Crazy in the USA’ featuring Kurt Anderson. I often wonder about the various ways the minds of different people work. I’m not going to...
by Heather Hastie | Jan 13, 2018 | Economics, Tweets, US Politics
On 8 January Donald Trump sent out three tweets about his latest speech to his base. That day, he spoke at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Most of those in attendance support him strongly, but why? What exactly is Trump...
