We haven't heard much about the Rapture lately, but it could be the one explanation that makes sense when we hear about Republican short-sightedness and lack of regard for ensuring that all aspects of the common good are there for future generations.

It just may be that they believe the coming Rapture justifies all the get-yours-while-you-can legislation that benefits the wealthy. Who, unlike the poor, must be pleasing to our Creator, who helps those who help themselves and prove by...

and should also be recalled.

I believe he has already fired the school board and turned over the public school system to a "manager." Next will come multiple closures followed by the creation of privatized charters managed, no doubt, by persons approved by the anti-public-education deform movement. He is another anti-tax zealot and small government extremist just like Scott Walker.

Both are beloved of ALEC, as are the governors of Indiana and New Jersey.

We can...

Young men (and probably women, but there are no atrocity stories) don't enter the military as people capable of Sergeant Sales' shooting spree or the massacre of the entire village of My Lai in Vietnam.

They are taught during their training to hate "the enemy" so they'll be able to overcome their reluctance to kill. It probably becomes easier over time. One tour of duty can be enough to produce PTSD -- three or four would seem three or four times as likely to do so.

This is...

The world is learning that nuclear power cannot be relied upon to be safe. Japan's earthquake and tsunami almost caused a meltdown that could have destroyed a huge area and killed hundreds of thousands of people.

But that's not all. France gets most of its energy from nuclear plants and re-processes spent fuel so it can be used again. It doesn't do that work, or at least all of it, in France, however. Trucks and trains carry spent fuel to Russia for reprocessing. The writer of...