Where We're At...
Lusaka, Zambia Monday, August 31, 2026 I see that it's been over five years since I last wrote anything on this blog. As part of a new-school-year resolution, I have decided to try to write a new blog post every two weeks over the next nine months. Luckily for me (but unluckily for the state of the planet), there is absolutely no shortage of problems, concerns and outrages for me to opine on. So what should I begin with? The Delete-Ten Challenge This is something I've been contemplating over the past few years of chaos and stupidity and sheer malevolence around the world. If you could wave a magic wand and delete ten public figures from the world and by so doing make the world a distinctly better place, who would you delete? After lots of pondering, here's who I would erase from history (like a Stalin-era photo airbrusher), and why. 1. Donald Trump Say no more. The man determined to destroy every Western institution, to shred every international institution and norm; the p...