The KHIT Blog

BACK TO EXIGENT CONCERNS (in the wake of my prior transient dumbass diversion).        IS HOPE FOR A REAL, DURABLE, AMICABLE PEACE NAIVE? ONE OF MY FAVORITE CONFLICT RESOLUTION EXPERT...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-israeli-palestinian-perplex.html

Well, after seeing the book approvingly reviewed by @ScienceMagazine I thought a closer look was in order, pricey Kindle tag notwithstanding.   UPDATE     I wrote a lengthy irasc...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-word-data.html

> WHAT WOULD GOVERNANCE LOOK LIKE IF OUR PLANETARY CONDITION WAS > CENTRAL RATHER THAN ANCILLARY TO OUR POLITICAL SELF-CONCEPTIONS? > What issues would become paramo...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-increasingly-immodest-children-of.html

Spoiler alert: it's not a synonym for "politeness," "manners," "decorum," "agreeableness," "deference," "passivity," or "humility."      I DON'T RECALL AT THE MOMENT HOW I RAN ACROSS THIS ...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/04/civility.html

A POST-PRESIDENTIAL FIRST. WELL, I GUESS WE'LL SEE... TRUMP PRESPONDS > "Just four years ago I was a very popular and successful President > of the United States,...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/04/times-2024-man-of-year.html

WE IN BALTIMORE WERE GRACED BY A COMPELLING TALK GIVEN BY CELINE COUSTEAU LAST NIGHT. THE “BALTIMORE SPEAKERS BUREAU” SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST THIS YEAR.   "HUMANKIND HAS NOT WOVEN TH...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/04/we-in-first-world-are-also-tribes-on.html

 A.K.A. THE “CLAREMONT INSTITUTE”       ON ONE LEVEL, THE JOKES JUST WRITE THEMSELVES. HOWEVER, THIS STUFF IS REALLY NOT FUNNY. STAY TUNED FOR SOME SERIOUS FRACKING ON THIS POIGNANT, S...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-us-white-nationalist-flea.html

READ ABOUT THIS IN SCIENCE MAGAZINE .  GOES TO MY "COVERING CLIMATE " RIFFS.   PHOTO FROM THE SCIENCE MAGAZINE REVIEW. BEEN THERE, SEEN THAT FIERY, SMOKY SKY. 2018 WILDFIRE HAZE,...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/04/on-deck-on-move.html

 A DEAD CAT BOUNCE?       AFTER DON POORLEONE'S NASDAQ:DJT OPENED ON THE PUBLIC STOCK MARKET LAST WEEK, IT QUICKLY PEAKED AT $79.38. SINCE THEN IT HAS SLID -49% (1-(40.59/79.38)). ...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/04/donald-trumps-truth-social.html

JUST WHO HAS BEEN “POISONING THE BLOOD OF OUR COUNTRY?”     Thankfully, the Trump GOP MAGA anti-POC white nationalist bigots have been uncharacteristically (relatively) subdued in th...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/04/on-verminator.html

"WE SUFFER TODAY FROM MUCH MORE PLURIBUS THAN UNUM."     > A simple equation named “the monster” can help us think about > wickedness: I = 2^(n(n-1)), where I is t...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/03/wicked-problems.html

ABOVE: PRIOR TO TODAY.   WOW. AN UNREAL DAY HERE. THIS SINGAPORE-FLAGGED CONTAINER SHIP LOST POWER AT ABOUT 1:30 A.M. WHILE LEAVING PORT AND TOOK OUT THE BRIDGE A 1.6 MILE SPAN, M...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/03/baltimores-francis-scott-key-i-695.html

"ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS..."     A FOLLOW-UP TO MY RECENT POST "LET US PREY. U.S. CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS ARE MAKING PLANS FOR US. "   FULLY-RECOVERED EPISCOPALIAN HERE (FORMER CHOI...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/03/spiritual-warriors-2024.html

I EAGERLY AWAIT KARA SWISHER' S TAKE ON THIS.   Unapologetic Mac Snob here. First started using Apple products in 1991. Continued thereafter to use both Apple and MS Windoze platforms. Now...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/03/an-apple-day-and-doj.html

> TAKING HIM LITERALLY >  > Excerpted, March 2024 Trump MAGA campaign rally in Ohio. From > “The.Ink,” at Substack by Anand Giridharadas >  > THE VICTIM KING >  >...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/03/our-golden-age.html

U.S. "CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS" ARE MAKING PLANS FOR US.     THE PROJECT 2025 BC FOLKS HAVE SOME “COMPETITION.”    GET A LOAD OF THIS CREW. BELOW, THE ENTIRETY OF THEIR ...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/03/let-us-prey.html

THE ARC OF HISTORY MAY WELL TAKE A SHARP, ADVERSE TURN AWAY FROM ANY RATIONAL NOTION OF CIVILIZED JUSTICE. A painfully hilarious read. ANDREW MARANTZ is an Old Soul of ...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/03/in-fewer-than-eight-months.html

Can SCOTUS summarily and unilaterally revise the U.S. Constitution?        THE ANSWER APPEARS TO BE "YES" THESE DAYS. > There’s more than one way to skin a Constitution....

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/03/primus-inter-pares.html

I have so much to be grateful for. Knowing that there is zero chance of ever tuning in to The Oscars and seeing Donald Trump sitting at one of the tables ranks right up at the top.

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/03/academy-awards-night-2024.html

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? NOT WHOLLY A FORWARD-LOOKING SPECULATION, IT TURNS OUT.    This jumped in my face today. Been lying there on the coffee table for a couple of days. Finally...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/03/pentagon-valley-moving-fast-and.html

BRING IN THE WOMEN."      A LONG-FAVORITE RIFF OF MINE, THAT POST TITLE. OK, I FINISHED BARB MCQUADE'S BOOK THE OTHER DAY AND HAVE NOW PLOWED WELL INTO KARA SWISHER'S KILLER READ. ...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/03/when-you-need-job-done-right.html

DID SCOTUS JUST SUMMARILY AMEND THE CONSTITUTION, VIA 5 VOTES?      Recall my December 20, 2023 post.   OK > ARTICLE V: > THE CONGRESS, WHENEVER TWO THIRDS OF BOTH H...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/03/per-curious-per-curiam.html

  I'd say this is a must-watch. At once painfully funny and infuriating. apropos of BARB MCQUADE'S new book I'm now deep into: > According to Mercier and Sperber > , > human...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/03/online-pig-butchering.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2024 CERTIORARI GRANTED 23-939 TRUMP, DONALD J. V. UNITED STATES (23A745)      The application for a stay presented to The Chief Justice is referred by him to the Co...

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/02/is-donald-trump-above-law-we-may-soon.html

FILTH.

https://regionalextensioncenter.blogspot.com/2024/02/oklahoma-republican-state-senator-tom.html