What’s on my Mind: Uninformed Citizenry:  https://aeon.co/ideas/the-right-to-vote-should-be-restricted-to-those-with-knowledge https://www.sparknotes.com/us-government-and-politics/political-science/politics-and-political-science/summary/ News: Democracy on Trial:  https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/04/18/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/gag-order-redux-00153015 https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-hush-money-trial-witness-testimony-takeaways-rcna149542 https://apnews.com/article/fake-electors-trump-2020-arizona-indictments-059a719514b0c6cb5 ..read more

What’s on my Mind: Living Outside the Box: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/chaotic-cognition/202006/the-truth-about-the-box-in-outside-the-box-thinking  News:  The Boy who Cried Wolf:  https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/04/18/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/gag-order-redux-00153015 https://www.thedailybeast.com/details-of-how-trump-scored-dollar175m-bond-revealed-in-court-filings https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-04-18-24/h_765e8b1de153c160143b222aa9bac66f Conversations with an Atheist: Biblical interpretation by Race: https ..read more

What’s on my Mind: How and Why We Lose: https://www.270towin.com/  News:  Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do and die:  https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/11/trump-tightens-stranglehold-on-congressional-gop-00151629 https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/arizona-gop-lawmaker-lashes-out-at Conversations with an Atheist:  thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-evangelical-supporters-political-violence-poll-rcna122023 https://www.prri.org/research/threats-to-american-democracy-ahead-of-an-unprecedented ..read more

What’s on my Mind: By their fruits…: https://books.google.com/books/about/Be_You.html?id=my1GEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0#v=onepage&q&f=false  News: There Aren’t Two Sides to the Facts:  https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-sick-immigrants-musk-pseudoscience-rcna146301 https://apnews.com/article/former-trump-officials-criticize-2024-e202861911ab3 ..read more

What’s on my Mind: Existence Beyond Time: https://www.space.com/time-how-it-works  News:  The Last Congress:  https://www.ft.com/content/86ee5942-2ff5-47a6-a509-b74b854b0477 https://www.marylandmatters.org/2024/03/20/a-deeply-divided-congress-took-no-major-action-on-civil-rights-in-2023-report-finds/ https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/03/22/congress/gallagher-leaving-early-00148586 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/georgia-republican-official-and-outspoken-election-denier-caught-voting-illegally-9-times/ar-BB1kIwxq?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=cd77e83b2cf ..read more

What’s on my Mind: The weaponization of colorblindness:   News:  Like Lemmings to the Sea:  https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/11/2222787/-A-tidal-wave-of-stupid https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4545008-parnas-calls-out-gop-rep-hearing-doing-bidding-russia/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/us/california-pastor-arrested.html https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-label-no-labels-vote-trump-opinion-1881492 Conversations with an Atheist: On the Road to Nowhere: https://www.learnreligions.com/comparing-christian-denominations-beliefs-part-1-700537 Closing:  Don’t Tal ..read more

 What’s on my Mind: Zombies vs. Humans: https://secularhumanism.org/what-is-secular-humanism/  https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2002/10/22160056/p35.pdf News:  Round Two: Joe vs. The Shit Show – Democracy's 2nd Last Stand! https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/13/never-trumpers-gop-2024-elections-00146726 Conversations with an Atheist: Heaven and Hell Explorations of the Afterlife: https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/how-major-religions-view-afterlife Closing:  Reciprocity matters:  http ..read more

What’s on my Mind: Master Manipulator: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/snl-donald-trump-republican-bootlickers/  News: They all float down here. You’ll float too:  https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/super-tuesday-2024-coverage/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/nikki-haley-drops-out https://apnews.com/article/state-of-union-biden-gaza-ukraine-israel-1a42ff9d4ef3e0f2753e43ac8d39fc18 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/08/katie-britt-sotu-reaction Conversations with an Atheist: Cosmology versus Mythology: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries ..read more

What’s on my Mind: America without democracy: https://www.dw.com/en/as-autocrats-ascend-gloomy-data-on-democracies-decline/a-62674756  https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2022/01/09/what-authoritarianism-would-look-like-america/9088584002/ News:  Rats f*cking Suckers:  https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/dossier-not-what-started-all-of-this/ https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a46883184/fbi-informant-alexander-smirnov-biden-false-claims-russian-intel/ Conversations with an Atheist: Faith vs. Proof: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04 ..read more

What’s on my Mind: The end of evolution: News:  It’s the culture stupid: https://thehill.com/opinion/4445662-for-maga-its-the-culture-stupid/  Conversations with an Atheist: Undeniable correlation: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-secular-life/201411/why-education-corrodes-religious-faith Closing:   Black pays:  https://www.blackenterprise.com/hbcus-highest-financial-payoffs-for-black-graduates/ Feedback: Marcia: I talk to people everywhere I go and ask them to vote but they're all shaking their heads but in case anyone wants to encourage their children or ..read more