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The Slow Boat to Nowhere

Posted on April 6, 2021 by ScottSoriano

The stranding of the Ever Given super-freighter in the Suez Canal is far more than a tale of a boat run aground. If you’ve followed the story, you know that there was a backup of freight – 10% of the world’s shipping – and that some freighters doubled-back through the Mediterranean to make the trip…

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We Are Power, We Are Change

Posted on March 23, 2021 by ScottSoriano

Hello, I am back. My absence is not due to lack of words – trust me, I am full of them, or something! I’ve written several essays that I intended to send out but never got to the point where I was happy with them. The shift in Washington is so drastic, that my mind…

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War Pigs: The Republican Party & Paramilitaries

Posted on February 13, 2021 by ScottSoriano

A week or so after Biden took office, many of us discovered a calm inside us. The calm came not just from the knowledge that the country was being run by intelligent, competent, empathetic people. We suddenly had all this space in our heads for something other than Trump. Trump as no longer top of…

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The Song Remains the Same: The Republican Problem with Extremism

Posted on February 5, 2021 by ScottSoriano

Something about our psychology makes us believe that what we experience today is wholly unique to ourselves and this day. Technically that is correct. Go back fifty years and half the players involved in the current drama over “extremists in Congress” weren’t even alive. But, like a thousand punk songs that sound like “Wild Thing”…

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Unchained: Small Moves, Big Consequences

Posted on January 23, 2021 by ScottSoriano

So, here we go, the Joseph R. Biden Administration. Though the people occupying the White House have changed, I will be writing about the Biden administration with the same directness I did with the previous occupant. I will criticize and condemn when need be. I will give props when it is warranted and rare praise…

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Give Up The Funk: What We Did & What To Do Now

Posted on January 20, 2021 by ScottSoriano

Well, that was a long 1,461 days! My lord! I’ve been writing on the Trump presidency nearly every day since it started and I am not totally sure what happened over last four years and don’t think we will know the depth of things for quite some time. There are, though, historical markers, events that…

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News & Not Knowing: How We Understand Unfolding Events

Posted on January 13, 2021 by ScottSoriano

Before the internet, cell phones, and instant communication, news was reported and consumed like this:  An event happened. Planned or spontaneous, the reporters on the scene reported what was happening in real-time. Of the three mediums – print, television, radio – radio was usually the first to report an event in real-time. The reason for…

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(Failed) Insurrection Time: What Now?

Posted on January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 by ScottSoriano

Immediately during and after events such as Wednesday’s failed Trumpist insurrection, I hop on the Facebook and warn about overreaction. My warnings often elicit a quick response from people who are angry and frustrated and want something to happen now. Some of the backlashers frame my warnings as me not taking a situation seriously and/or…

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Down In Flames: Thoughts on King Tubby & His Demise

Posted on January 6, 2021 by ScottSoriano

So, Donald Trump, occupant of the White House, made another stupidly self-destructive phone call, this one to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger urging him to overturn Georgia’s presidential election results. Regardless of what was going on in Trump’s head, whether he truly believes the crap he talked or was trying to cynically strongarm Raffensperger…

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The Year 2020 Was A Year

Posted on January 1, 2021January 2, 2021 by ScottSoriano

No doubt about it, 2020 was a rough year. It certainly wasn’t a good year, but was it necessarily a bad year? Perhaps, 2020 was like all years, it was a year. Pluck any year out of history and lay out the important major and minor universal or near-universal events and pick through them. Now,…

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  • The Song Remains the Same: The Republican Problem with Extremism
  • Unchained: Small Moves, Big Consequences
  • Give Up The Funk: What We Did & What To Do Now
  • News & Not Knowing: How We Understand Unfolding Events
  • (Failed) Insurrection Time: What Now?
  • Down In Flames: Thoughts on King Tubby & His Demise
  • The Year 2020 Was A Year

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