Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

On the final day in March, Marine Le Pen, a Trump-style French politician and a Member of the European Parliament, was convicted along with eight other MEPs of misappropriating more than  €4 million of the funds of the EP for the coffers of Le Pen's political party, known as the National Front.  With luck, she has now been consigned to the dustbin of history.  Le Pen was sentenced to four years in prison and a five-year ban on running for political office. So unless she can reverse that she will not be in the running for France's next President in 2027.  Wow.  A country where you can NOT be President after being convicted of a felony.  What a concept! I guess we cannot import that idea because ... the new US tariffs. Importing any damned thing is getting expensive!    

I wrote for a little more than a year, (ending in April 2022) on a steady basis, for a small operation that hoped to explain public affairs to young people -- pre-teens and early teens. This operation created a small income stream for me ($400 a month) which nonetheless sometimes came in very useful when it arrived. I lost this stream of income when the project closed down operations. Their site went down in the aftermath of the cessation of operations, but someone brought it back. With one cryptic exception there is nothing on it posted subsequent to early May of this year, when they ran out of the inventory of my work.  Sooner or later -- likely sooner -- the site will be taken down. I have a fondness for some of the work I did for it, so I will risk whatever the IP consequences might be and post some of my work here.  They fall into three categories. I wrote about health (Covid, cancer research, the health insurance industry, etc.), politics (in a narrow sense involving cam...