LinkedIn on Friday, September 4, 2026
If you watch too much news – and find your head spinning between stories of authoritarian disregard for the Constitution and rule of law, expensive Presidential vanity projects, “grand theft government” as I like to call the grift Trump is running, awful economic and foreign policy, etc. – you may be asking yourself, “What the hell is going on?!” Yeah. Me too.
LinkedIn on Thursday, August 27, 2026
$40 trillion and counting?! Costing us $1 trillion per year, approximately $3000 per person, $12,000 per family of four – just to pay the interest on our national debt.
Forget about Donald Trump and the likes of Stephen Miller. These people are fast on their way to being barely memorable footnotes in the history of our country. If anything ever takes America down, it will the gross financial irresponsibility with which we’ve managed our national debt.
LinkedIn on Monday, August 24, 2026
Zero integrity. Stupid economic policy. No understanding of the advantages of competitive markets. He couldn’t care less.
On July 29 of this year, the Trump Administration announced a ban on the importing of humanoid robots.
“Why?” you ask.
Well, do you know what U.S. company is the current leader in the development and manufacture of humanoid robots? With plans to ramp up production and sale of its Optimus robots to one million units per year at $20,000 per unit?
Well, Tesla of course, a/k/a Elon Musk whose money helped re-elect Trump President.
Don’t buy anything Musk makes. Remind them both that the people are still in charge.
-Les Cohen
LinkedIn on Monday, August 24, 2026
I’ve just completed the process of migrating my small company’s domains and WordPress.org websites from one to another hosting service. The new hosting service is substantially less expensive, no doubt because it uses a very sophisticated AI entity to provide customer service, to help layman like me do technical stuff. My old hosting service is, on the other hand, human customer service-intensive and much more expensive for that reason.
LinkedIn on Wednesday, August 19, 2026
The screenshot above is from the end of a chat with the tech support AI who was helping migrate some websites to its hosting service.
I’m having a sci-fi moment.
I’m a small business. Even so, I have three WordPress websites that I’m in the process of updating and moving from one hosting service to another that is much, much less expensive than the service I have been using. One site describes the writing and editing services I offer to political and corporate clients. Another contains samples of my professional work. And a third site describes the fiction I write and hope to sell some day.
LinkedIn on Monday, August 10, 2026
I’m a fan of Bill Maher. He’s funny and I especially like the way he’s fearlessly critical of everyone out there in politics, regardless of their party affiliation. The way he blends serious and comedic commentary is spot on. But he’s not perfect and I’m sure he knows it.
LinkedIn on Sunday, August 2, 2026
The quote in the header is from the Wall Street Journal article by Josh Dawsey, et al, July 30, 2026.
Donald Trump is in a world of trouble. If the Democrats takeover the House and the Senate, he’s going to be impeached in the House, for the third time, but this time he’s going to be convicted in the Senate and thrown out of office. …As my granddaughter would say, “Uh oh, Spaghetti-ohs!”
LinkedIn on Wednesday, July 29, 2026
When the Democrats takeover control of the House and maybe the Senate too, and eventually The White House hopefully in 2028, they’re going to spend a great deal of their time re-establishing the integrity of our federal government. No doubt, this process will include holding Donald Trump accountable for money he’s stolen from the American people, for himself, family and major contributors. Will Trump and his benefactors end up serving time for the grift they have perpetrated? I don’t know. You and I would go to jail, but then we’re not President of the United States, his children or politically powerful billionaires.
LinkedIn on Sunday, July 26, 2026
Tired of watching and reading about politics – and Trump in particular? I am. He’s been taking up way too much of my time. Let’s talk about something else.
In 2010, our federal government decided that it was time to include “keyboarding” in the curriculum of our public schools – in place of learning handwriting. There are only so many hours in the day. Something had to go to make room for preparing our nation’s children for the emerging technologies of our time.
LinkedIn on Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Let’s start by forgetting about the military and civilian people who have been wounded as a result of United States foreign policy. It’s not that the wounded are somehow irrelevant. Hurting people, at whatever level, is an awful thing to do. It’s just that I have something I want to say and it helps me make my point if I focus on the dead.
LinkedIn on Sunday, July 12, 2026
The “Last Laugh Hypothesis” is my name for the insidious way in which capitalism overthrows dictatorships, effecting regime change without our having to apply military force. As it turns out, all we need to do, for example, to convert Russia and eventually China into free democracies is inject our capitalism into their economies by virtue of positive, free trade policies and market development by American companies. It takes time and we need to be patient, but it works.
LinkedIn on Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Our President, no doubt with the assistance of White House resident white nationalist Stephen Miller, has started telling people that Democrats, particularly those who describe themselves as democratic socialists, are communists. According to Trump, if these communists take charge of our government, it will be the end of the world as we know it.