After I posted my blog yesterday, I thought I'd watch that classic 1964 anti-nuclear war black comedy,  Dr. Strangelove , which got 98/94 ratings from  Rotten Tomatoes .  Conveniently, I had recorded it some time ago off TCM.  Of course I had seen it a long time ago, but forgot all the details.  A timetable of what was happening during that period: There was a half-hearted  Bay of Pigs invasion  in April of 1961.  Incredibly, there is a true story of how five of us as Stanford juniors actually had planned to swing through the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the spring break, then join this attack.  Good thing we chickened out. The  Berlin Crisis  came in August of 1961 when the wall was built between East and West Berlin. I graduated and in June of 1962 moved to the Hutchinson Sugar Company in Naalehu on the Big Island of Hawaii, a location where I could not receive radio or television. Came the  Cuban Missile Crisis  from 1...

Sure, many of President Trump's executive orders are leading us to a constitutional crisis.  But what is the worst case scenario?  We lose Democracy and become a Dictatorship.  Terrible, but most of us will carry on with our lives, and so will the rest of the world. Other Trump edicts will hurt the poor, middle class and elderly.  There will be serious reductions in social benefits, especially in medicine,  public welfare, education and the like.  But many of those hurt should have anticipated this course of action if they voted for Trump, or not.   Social Security will fade and become unavailable for most, and those already on it, will see payments decline over time.  But again, they will survive, only not so well.  The rich?  They will do better, probably muchly so. The most damaging of all Trump acts is in the remediation of global warming.  This could be so serious as to lead to billions of human deaths, and perhaps trigger...