Category Archives: Communications

Comparing Donald Trump with King Kong

Comparing Donald Trump with King Kong This is the third in a series of unexpected comparisons between our new federal administration, and movies, with their social settings, in order to create analogies to help us understand the new, strange behavior … Continue reading

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Day 3, Kellyanne Attacks Free Speech of a Million Demonstrators

Day 3, Kellyanne Attacks Free Speech of a Million Demonstrators I didn’t monitor all Sunday morning interview programs, as Trump does, but I did read that Kellyanne said that the demonstrators in the Women’s March only had to have had … Continue reading

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Trump Advisor Will Happer is Not a Climate Scientist

Trump Advisor Will Happer is Not a Climate Scientist Distinguished Princeton physicist Will Happer was given the honor of visiting our would-be-President Donald Trump at his golden 5th Avenue tower, or White House North.  This is because Prof. Happer is … Continue reading

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Trump Demands Subservience to the Supreme Leader

Sacrifice freedom of speech, freedom of the press. Meryl Streep attacked about Trump’s video of mocking disabled reporter. (Kellyanne deserves an Oscar for best acts of denial and counterattack diversions.) CNN attacked for mentioning existence of derogatory opposition document. Trump … Continue reading

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UCI Prof. Michael Prather’s Talk on “Where Climate Science Meets the Government”

Michael Prather’s Talk in UCI’s Physical Sciences Breakfast Lecture Series, January 10, 2017 Title:  Reporting From the Front Line:  Where Climate Science Meets the Government The recorded talk will appear on the UCI Physical Sciences website. Michael Prather, Distinguished Professor … Continue reading

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Will Trumpomania Ever Cease?

Will Trumpomania Ever Cease? President-not-in-waiting Donald Trump has been running an off-the-chart-rating TV reality (unfortunately) show, that keeps the public in daily suspense, and the cable news channels in a monetary heaven. For our sanity, we hope that at some … Continue reading

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Trump’s Secret Private Cybersecurity Team?

Trump’s Secret Private Cybersecurity Team? Trump’s staff released a short statement on cybersecurity, with the most cited phrase being “there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election”.  The statement did not agree that Russians had hacked the … Continue reading

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Trump: Hacking, Couriers, Assange, Tweeting, and the “Age of Computer”

Trump:  Hacking, Couriers, Assange, Tweeting, and the “Age of Computer” President-elect Trump is still trying to deny and deflect criticism that Russian hacking and Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks publication of John Podesta’s emails, the DNC emails, and the DNCC’s emails had an … Continue reading

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Murdoch’s WSJ Eschews Logic on Trump’s Lies

Murdoch’s WSJ Eschews Logic on Trump’s Lies Apparently, Wall Street Editor-in-Chief Gerard Baker said on Meet the Press that his paper would not call Trump’s lies “lies”.  Apparently, they will just be called “questionable” or “challengeable”.  So, the only thing … Continue reading

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Modernizing Nuclear Civil Defense Procedures

Modernizing Nuclear Civil Defense Procedures Now that our new President is playing fast and loose with an escalation of nuclear armaments, it is time to modernize our nuclear civil defense procedures, just in case.  Actually, President-elect Trump’s off the cuff … Continue reading

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