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Thursday, March 5, 2026

Wait -- Inequality Is Your Problem?

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The news was just going on in the background, when the voice started citing some recent poll about what was most on people's minds. The ...

The Good Part of the COVID Pandemic

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Let's agree with this. the COVID pandemic was not a fun time. Many people died, although we will never have a remotely accurate estimate...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

The Disproving Example in the Transgender Case

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Good day; sorry for the long article drought.  I suppose we are all in semi-rapt attention over the case which was the topic of audio-broadc...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

The Trump Vision for the Planet -- and Getting There

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It is only a couple days since President Trump added an eighth "war ended" notch to his diplomatic belt, getting out all the livin...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

A Fun OSHA Story

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OSHA is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, yet another nanny-state relic of the 1970s actually signed into law by Richard Ni...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Open Debate -- the Needed Legacy of Charlie Kirk

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Let's talk about two groups. One of them is about power. They want to rule, and they want to ensure that the systems are aligned such th...
Monday, August 25, 2025

The "Indian" in the Senate

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A few years back, I did a few pieces that discussed the Government's set-aside programs that granted special access to contracts for peo...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

The Russiagate Discovery Made Clear

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I don't doubt that a few of you were able to listen to the White House daily press briefing yesterday (23 July) and heard the Director o...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Has Trump Overhauled the Republican Party?

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As I write this, the House of Representatives is debating the One Big Beautiful Bill, and this piece has little, if anything to do with that...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

DEI Infects the High Court

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The sad left was publicly, chest-poundingly upset by yesterday's last-day decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, most particularly the cas...
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Friday, June 27, 2025

Obrigado, Amigos Brasileiros!

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Obviously I don't write in Portuguese, and as you might guess after reading the last 1,100 or so of these pieces, that's because I d...
Friday, June 20, 2025

When the War is Actually Over

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As I write this, missiles are being exchanged between Iran and Israel, a situation which, despite the lack of ground troops involvement, con...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Fluffy at the Vanguard

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Gabriel Iglesias, as we all know, is a (quite) portly Mexican-American comedian, certainly among the most popular stand-up comics of any gen...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Fire Extinguishers, Fives of Clubs, and Five-Irons

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The latest kerfuffle in the whole California high school athletics drama took place, not over a boy pretending to be a girl and walking away...
Monday, May 5, 2025

Daylight Savings -- Part Two

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I hope you got to read the "part one" of this discussion from last December -- if not, here is the link so you can get the idea of...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Sinterklaas Kapoentje, Leg Wat in Mijn Schoentje

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It may be a bit surprising to some readers of this site that UberThoughtsUSA has a rather wide readership; "wide" meaning "ar...
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Robert Sutton
Robert Sutton had written a daily piece for this site for four years, and now adds an occasional "visiting column." A graduate of M.I.T. with a degree in biology, he has also attended the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Boston Conservatory of Music -- a fine example of his combined inability to do one thing well, or the diversity of his interests, whatever you would like to infer. He is also a four-time international champion in barbershop singing as well as doing historical research on early quartet champions, and was a well-known performer of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the 1970s. He has performed the National Anthem for MLB games at Fenway Park, Camden Yards, Memorial Stadium and whatever the White Sox stadium is called this week. He does have an actual profession, too, consulting to the defense contracting community for many years. He routinely answers email at bsutton@alum.mit.edu or on Twitter (@rmosutton) and is happy to hear from readers . . . "UberThoughtsUSA" reflects the "other" meaning of the German word "über" -- "in regard to." The posts here, every weekday might, on a given day, be in regard to -- "über" -- almost anything.
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