Two blockbuster stories broke at nearly the same time: The US Air Force confirmed that UFOs are real and released official video proving it. And a report came out indicating that humans might go extinct by the year 2050 unless something dramatic happens. Weirdly, no one is talking about either story.
Republicans would be a minority party if they didn’t cheat. The other alternative? Appealing to voters, but who wants to do that?
Alzheimer’s patients are afflicted by plaque on their brains that causes them to lose their short-term memory and makes them confused. It doesn’t help that medical professionals look down on them.
People who oppose wars from the start are treated like crap in America. Even among pacifists on the left, the politicians who get the most credibility when they oppose wars are those with military experience.
If you screw up, the penalties are draconian. So why are you so eager to forgive hardass politicians who would never give you a break?
In my continuing series of cartoons about my mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s and my work with her as her only caregiver, I discussed the fact that my efforts to keep her rooted to reality drew me closer to her than ever in the final years before she ended up in the memory care unit of an assisted care facility.
Perhaps because they don’t think about it very hard, a lot of people blame those who default on student loans for reneging on an obligation that they under took freely. But let’s not forget, high school seniors at the age of 17 are required to sign loan agreements for up to $57,000. We don’t trust them to rent cars. We don’t issue them credit cards. How can we hold them responsible for decisions that they are not mentally able to handle?
What it comes to climate change, most Americans think to themselves: someone will figure something out. And by someone, they probably mean the government. But this is the very same government that doesn’t seem to be able to address almost any other problem, most of which are much less complicated than climate change.
Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease for everyone but it seems especially cruel when its victim is someone whose memory was especially sharp.
Some Democrats say that they are “blue no matter who.” Trump, they say, is such an existential threat that they will vote for anyone who winds up as the Democratic nominee for president. But is it really wise to extend such a blank check to a party that has disappointed us so many times before?
