Terry H. Schwadron March 27, 2023 Apparently, we’re hoping that hiding all the spinning wheels in the kingdom will keep our youth from pricking themselves. Of course, that’s not how Sleeping Beauty turned out, as my partner reminds me, and neither is it likely that trying to put everything shiny…

Terry H. Schwadron March 24, 2023 All the speculating, unfounded predictions, and pre-trial political fallout involving the first of what appear to be a series of indictments that Donald Trump may face are pointing toward social illness of their own that promises to outlive pending grand jury action. The impatience…

Terry H. Schwadron March 24, 2023 From all that we’re hearing, the world turned another notch more dangerous this week as Chinese leader Xi Jinping was embraced in Moscow by Vladimir Putin — a visual celebration of two huge autocracies finding common ground. Though this summit did not result in…

Terry H. Schwadron March 22, 2023 Another, increasingly dour United Nations report this week underscores that international delaying and dallying are failing to put off the increasing certainty that we’re headed for climate troubles a lot faster than we had feared. Indeed, the report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on…

Terry H. Schwadron March 21, 2023 If the current Washington debate about banning or controlling TikTok to assure national safety from Chinese manipulation appeared on the app, I suppose that there would be a lot of bouncing heads and irreverently humorous poking at the main characters as beset teens in…

Terry H. Schwadron March 20, 2023 The new perceived woke stain in the climate debate has bled into the home washing machine. Once again, information manipulation is rampant towards forcing a political divide over a perfectly reasonable, if debatable, government proposition: As water supplies worldwide become more noticeable, let’s start…

Terry H. Schwadron March 19, 2023 It’s difficult to pick out the most irresponsible part of Donald Trump’s own, premature announcement of his likely arrest next week on New York charges related to payments to entertainer Stormy Daniels and any fraud in accounting for them. In place of humility, there…

Terry H. Schwadron March 17, 2023 The pending Republican primary elections seem an awfully poor venue for deciding whether this country is going to walk away from the defense of Ukraine from an invading Russia. For one thing, the primaries are notoriously rife with attempts to lean towards party line…

Terry H. Schwadron March 16, 2023 Inevitably, Joe Biden’s decision this week to approve a huge oil drilling project in Alaskan waters has drawn criticism that the move was based more on political realities than the best environmental choice. Approval for the disputed $8 billion plan to extract 600 million…