Commentary tonight, concerning the state of marriage and college instructors. How many marriages fail, between couples who married young. Then the young husband teaches for 5, 10, 15 years and is attracted or captured by a young female undergrad or graduate student. The first marriage ends and a new one ensues. Often, children result from the second marriage. There may be children from the first, but they usually go with the first wife. Women find this phenomenon deplorable unless they are the younger second wife. It looks like biology to me. The younger women win out over the older women. In middle eastern cultures, and older asian cultures, the older, first wife would hang in there and continue her position in the household, if at a secondary status. I'm sure the intra-household politics was killer, sometimes literally.
Second commentary-At this writing, the final NASA space shuttle mission is underway. There will be no more. Thanks to a lack of interest, or the military industrial complex running this country, NASA's programs have been pushed to the back burner. What has replaced pure science was the pure bullshit of W's administration, faux nation building, or what it used to be called, imperialism. Where is the government's participation in pure science. It is minuscule or non-existant. There is no prescription for how much the government should be sponsoring pure science, but it looks like the Apollo program did not hurt this country. Greed and lust for power have won out again.
Third commentary-During the last forty years or so, the federal government has, through legislation, extended the country's debt limit sixty-three times. It will need to be done, again, within the next three weeks. Most people think it is a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli, but not me. The Republican Congress vows to exact both tax cut continuations and government program cuts in exchange for increasing the debt limit. The Obama administration believes they can get a deal to close tax loopholes for corporations and the ultra-rich to raise revenues without giving the Republicans anything in return. They are wrong. The Republicans will prevail or the deadline will pass, and there will be a default on the debt owed. That has never happened, and nobody really knows what that will mean if it does, but it is my opinion that defaulted debt will trigger world wide economic collapse, the like of which has not been seen since the Great Depression, when the government also thought that what it legislated would make no difference. Tune in August 3, 2011 for the results. I will need to write the result for my own update.
Commentary 4-I am no scientist. I am no ecologist. Nevertheless, I feel comfortable predicting continuing global disasters in weather, environmental disaster like floods and earthquakes, and manmade ruin from manufacturing byproducts, and attempted oil, gas, and coal extraction. This is no great observation on my part. Any thinking person can observe and say the same thing. The next coming disaster will be the lack of drinkable fresh water to serve the needs of 7 billion humans. Already, water resources are being wrapped up like buyable commodities. The majority of humans should not allow this. The worlds fresh water belongs to everyone, and the animals and plants have a say in this as well, if they could say anything. Their say will be in their deaths. If they don't have enough water, they will die. If plants and animals die, humans will follow. Ignorant human beings will learn the definition of ecosystem, the hard way.
These are my views and do not represent the views of any organization or company, because none are paying me. There actually may be organizations that hold the same views, but I am saying these things on my own, because they need to be said. Newspapers cannot afford to say these things anymore. Their owners won't allow it. Big business has not figured out that they can only continue to make their obscene profits if people buy their products and services. Unfortunately, dying and dead folks do not need to buy goods and services. You cannot sell cattle and hogs that do not thrive. You cannot sell corn and other produce that will not grow.
I would agree to publish these views if asked. I will actually put them in my unread blog. Nobody wants to hear these views. The actions required to reverse or alleviate the situations take too much time, effort and money. People are not impressed with the problems to work out the solutions.
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