Part One

My focus in this essay is what I name “the broken—or the evil—triangle” of Columbus versus its residents. Let me be clear. Although many but far from all of my examples begin with my own neighborhood, the historic but City and OSU abandoned and destroyed University District, my object of scrutiny and criticism is the entire city. To a greater or lesser extent, all the issues—the crimes of commission and omission--exist throughout Columbus. If not recognizable at first or second glances, Weinland Park, Franklinton, Linden, The Hilltop, south Clintonville, the west and east sides excepting much of Victorian and German Village take their place in the puzzles of Columbus.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- The anti-establishment winner of May's national election lost support to become prime minister on August 2 when his coalition dumped him, clearing the way for a conservative real-estate tycoon's possible nomination.

Parliament's House election winner on May 14, Pita Limjaroenrat, was ousted because he had virtually no chance to become prime minister after the Senate rejected him in July for demanding the monarchy's lese majeste defamation protection -- Section 112 in the Criminal Code -- be weakened.

Many in his eight-party, 312-member coalition also feared being perceived as anti-112 which could open them to dangerous, expensive, time-consuming -- and potentially punishable -- allegations and lawsuits, real and dismissible, filed by litigious staunch royalists.

Mr. Pita's departure from his hurriedly regrouping coalition also banished him and his new Move Forward Party (MFP) to the opposition.

His dramatic and embarrassing downfall came after the idealistic, inexperienced, yuppie politician won 14 million votes -- 38 percent of the total -- and 151 seats in Parliament's 500-member elected House.

Thursday, August 3, 2023, 5:30 PM
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Issue 1 of the August Special Election dilutes voter power and grassroots power. Let's make some noise and talk about how we can get the word out! This is an opportunity to get materials to distribute and to get inspired. There will also be information about voting that you can share with friends and family.  

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ONE. The Ohio State legislature approved $24 million to establish “intellectual diversity” centers at five Ohio public universities. English translation from Right-Wing English: “radical right-wing indoctrination” centers with no actual “diversity” permitted.

Ohio State’s fountain of right-wing ideology is named for Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873). Have any readers heard that name? Not likely in your high school or college U.S. history courses. Not even on AP History exams.

Chase was born in born in New Hampshire, not Ohio. He grew up moving between NH and western Ohio. Exceptionally rare for his time and for both lawyers and politicians, he graduated from Dartmouth College as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

69 years ago an all-Christian bomber crew dropped “Fat Man”, a plutonium bomb, on Nagasaki, Japan, instantly annihilating tens of thousands of innocent civilians, a disproportionate number of them Japanese Christians and permanently or mortally wounding uncountable numbers of others.

In 1945, the US was the most Christian nation in the world (that is, if you can label as Christian a nation whose churches overwhelmingly fail to sincerely teach or adhere to the ethics of Jesus as taught in the Sermon on the Mount).

Prior to the bomb exploding over St. Mary’s Urakami Cathedral on 11:02 AM, Nagasaki was the most Christian city in Japan. The Nagasaki cathedral was the largest Christian cathedral in the Orient.

Those baptized and confirmed Christian airmen, following their wartime orders to the letter, did their job efficiently, and they accomplished the mission with military pride, albeit with any number of near-fatal glitches. Most of us Americans in 1945 would have done exactly the same if they had been in the shoes of the Bock’s Car crew, and there would have been very little mental anguish later if we had also been treated as heroes.