by Heather Hastie | Feb 21, 2018 | Asia, International Politics, Russia, Tweets, USA
One of my recent tweets is a just-released Gallup poll. Since 2001, Gallup has asked USians an open-ended question about their country’s enemies. That question is, “What one country anywhere in the world do you consider to be the United States’...
by Heather Hastie | Feb 19, 2018 | Gun Control, Health, Tweets, USA, Women
Seventeen children are dead in Florida and Trump tweets that it’s the FBI’s fault because they were too busy trying to find evidence he was colluding with Russia during the election campaign. WTF is wrong with this man? He went to Florida and met with the...
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 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...