A Sociological Eye

  Ah, nature. Everyone loves it!   Here on the left, we want to protect nature from human-caused climate change and pollution. The right counters, "Our scientists say there is no climate change!" Well, ok, but 99.5% of scientists agree that climate change due to our production of greenhouse gasses is indeed happening. Those are some really. . . unusual scientists you're citing.    The redhat right has its own claim about needing to protect nature. They cry that people on the left are violating the laws of the nature of sex! Nature dictates and the nation requires a sex binary of men and women who are eager to marry and produce children, they say. But instead, the left is full of gender transitions and queer people and crazy cat ladies, leaving the real men of America bereft of the loving, attractive wives they deserve!    Here's the thing. You can cause harm to natural beings and settings. You can kill off the vast herds of buffalo that once roamed the plai...

  [Image generated using MidJourney] Here, have a portrait of George Santos, who liked to claim he was the embodiment of the American Dream!  As you have probably heard, Santos is a new Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, recently elected to represent a district in New York at the youthful age of 34. You probably also heard that he lied about some things. Well, most things.  Santos' political biography during his successful run for Congress stated that his maternal grandparents were Jewish Ukrainians who fled the Holocaust to Brazil. Then his parents immigrated to the U.S., making him a proud American Jew. When his political stances were attacked as fascist on Twitter, he snapped back, "You just pulled the Nazi card on the grandson of Holocaust refugees." Not so; his maternal grandparents were born in Brazil and were Catholic, as is his family today. Santos' response to  genealogists  tracking his ancestry and discovering he’d lied about...