Before reaching back to my past on nostalgia Tuesday, first a lot of news items for today.  I'll mostly hint at the topics, so you can click on the links to follow up in detail. The biggest of all of them is the matter of democracy vs dictatorship.  The headline of the day: Roberts rejects Trump’s call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans Finally, Chief Justice John Roberts showed some backbone on the matter of President Trump's call for impeachment of all judges who ruled against him. This  deportation case  now appears to be the issue. How important is this comeuppance?  Very, for if Trump continues to do as he pleases, he becomes a dictator. Trump is already in control of two parts of our government, his White House and the U.S. Congress.  The third leg is the Supreme Court. However, the Supreme Court has no enforcement capabilities.   The Supreme Court, while having the power to interpret laws and the Constitution, lack...

For some reason, this posting was not published on January 19.  Made an adjustment, so perhaps this will occur today. Well, that  Gaza Strip ceasefire deal began  at 8:30AM local time, and three hours later the Hamas delivered the first three hostages. They were in captivity for 471 days. By now Israel should have released 90 Palestinian prisoners. TikTok went dark Saturday night.   However this afternoon, TikTok announced that it would begin restoring service to U.S. users.  They thanked President-elect Trump for his save.   There are three with more than a hundred million followers . #1 is Khabane  Lame (right), an influencer from Italy and Senegal.  He has 162.4 million following him. Khaby Lame is incredibly popular on TikTok because he creates silent, comedic reaction videos that mock overly complicated "life hacks" by showing simple, obvious solutions with exaggerated facial expressions, making his content universally relatable and...