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Author, columnist, and blogger with a long career in business management, management consulting and executive coaching. I've authored and published eight books: "You, Your Self and the 21st Century,"The Flowers Are Talking to Me," and "Faith Stirred Not Shaken," Christianity in America, "The Martian Prelude," Faith Stirred not Shaken, 2nd edition," "On Coaching with The Birkman Method." "On Coaching with The Birkman Method," and coming soon is my new book, "Loosing" Your Mind: Liberating Your Intellect for Critical Thinking." For sale at your favorite booksellers or the publisher's site: booklocker.com
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Illinois Is Now on Board. We Can Carry Concealed Weapons in Every State. I don't propose taking guns away from hunters and sports enthusiasts. I have no illusions about getting rid of almost 300 million guns. But I do have confidence that if we were to simply agree that the statistics point to something real and decide to do something productive about them, I believe we can come up with a solution that would honor our 2nd amendment rights and protect innocent people from lethal gun violen
Thursday, February 13, 2014Illinois Is Now on Board. We Can Carry Concealed Weapons in Every State. I don't propose taking guns away from hunters and sports enthusiasts. I have no illusions about getting rid of almost 300 million guns. But I do have confidence that if we were to simply agree that the statistics point to something real and decide to do something productive about them, I believe we can come up with a solution that would honor our 2nd amendment rights and protect innocent people from lethal gun violen
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Friday, January 24, 2014
Don't be Fooled: Black Racism Causes White Racism So even though I've got my theories about why racism is worse now than before President Obama's election, the final question has remained open until today. But finally I found an answer, in of all places, a piece on Fox News by Travis Gettys on rawstory.com.
Friday, January 24, 2014Don't be Fooled: Black Racism Causes White Racism So even though I've got my theories about why racism is worse now than before President Obama's election, the final question has remained open until today. But finally I found an answer, in of all places, a piece on Fox News by Travis Gettys on rawstory.com.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
What Jesus said and What the Christian Lunatic Fringe Hears. How certain segments of the Christian religion has morphed into the opposite of Christ's teachings.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013What Jesus said and What the Christian Lunatic Fringe Hears. How certain segments of the Christian religion has morphed into the opposite of Christ's teachings.
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Monday, April 15, 2013
The Primary American Meme: Be Afraid. Memes in America are sometimes designed to create a fearful populace and insight emotional responses. Fearful people are easier to convince that your particular brand of protection is needed.
Monday, April 15, 2013The Primary American Meme: Be Afraid. Memes in America are sometimes designed to create a fearful populace and insight emotional responses. Fearful people are easier to convince that your particular brand of protection is needed.
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Friday, January 3, 2014
This Pope Makes Me Want to be an Atheist When I apply this pope's words, most of the atheists I know are better Christians than many of the Christians I know.
Friday, January 3, 2014This Pope Makes Me Want to be an Atheist When I apply this pope's words, most of the atheists I know are better Christians than many of the Christians I know.
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Monday, December 16, 2013
Ethan Couch: An Example of the Pathology of Wealth Ethan Couch is a victim of an illness that is destroying this country and the democracy we all love to brag about. It's, in Chris Hedges' words, "the pathology of wealth." A pathology manifest in our adulation of the super rich; allowed by the unexamined belief that our day will come and we will join their ranks. Why? Because we still believe in an American dream that's been dying for the last four decades.
Monday, December 16, 2013Ethan Couch: An Example of the Pathology of Wealth Ethan Couch is a victim of an illness that is destroying this country and the democracy we all love to brag about. It's, in Chris Hedges' words, "the pathology of wealth." A pathology manifest in our adulation of the super rich; allowed by the unexamined belief that our day will come and we will join their ranks. Why? Because we still believe in an American dream that's been dying for the last four decades.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Success has Many Fathers While Failure is an Orphan What does it take to clean up our own messes? Our society's norms aren't going to help.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013Success has Many Fathers While Failure is an Orphan What does it take to clean up our own messes? Our society's norms aren't going to help.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
The Power of Language We forget how powerful language is to create and change our circumstances.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013The Power of Language We forget how powerful language is to create and change our circumstances.
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Pope Francis:Religious Fundamentalism is Blind to Reality. Me: It's Delusional. Last year, "Kathleen Taylor, a neurologist at Oxford University, said that recent developments suggest that we will soon be able to treat religious fundamentalism and other forms of ideological beliefs potentially harmful to society as a form of mental illness."
Wednesday, January 8, 2014Pope Francis:Religious Fundamentalism is Blind to Reality. Me: It's Delusional. Last year, "Kathleen Taylor, a neurologist at Oxford University, said that recent developments suggest that we will soon be able to treat religious fundamentalism and other forms of ideological beliefs potentially harmful to society as a form of mental illness."
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Friday, June 28, 2013
What Price Education? What Price None? Can we afford not to educate our young people in a world of competitive countries with growing middle classes who want the same things we want.
Friday, June 28, 2013What Price Education? What Price None? Can we afford not to educate our young people in a world of competitive countries with growing middle classes who want the same things we want.
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Monday, August 26, 2013
The Yin and Yang of Racism in America Yes, racism is a big problem in America. But there are least two sides to the story and lame-brained commentary doesn't make it easier to understand.
Monday, August 26, 2013The Yin and Yang of Racism in America Yes, racism is a big problem in America. But there are least two sides to the story and lame-brained commentary doesn't make it easier to understand.
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Religious Truths? Don't Be So Sure. Are there religious truths? If we claim that our beliefs are truer than the others, how do we prove our claim?
Friday, May 17, 2013Religious Truths? Don't Be So Sure. Are there religious truths? If we claim that our beliefs are truer than the others, how do we prove our claim?
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Friday, March 29, 2013
Spanking Babies for God: Why America is the Most Violent First World Country. We teach our children violence when we spank them. We even have a Christian book detailing how to use it to "train up" a child.
Friday, March 29, 2013Spanking Babies for God: Why America is the Most Violent First World Country. We teach our children violence when we spank them. We even have a Christian book detailing how to use it to "train up" a child.
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Saturday, January 11, 2014
If Corporations Are People, Pope Francis is Exorcist. Well, contrary to the Vatican's official position, I think the Pope is an exorcist. One of the most important exorcists ever. I'll call him an Exorcist Extraordinaire. And he is appearing at exactly the right time in history.
Saturday, January 11, 2014If Corporations Are People, Pope Francis is Exorcist. Well, contrary to the Vatican's official position, I think the Pope is an exorcist. One of the most important exorcists ever. I'll call him an Exorcist Extraordinaire. And he is appearing at exactly the right time in history.
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
The United Airlines Incident Isn't Just About Airlines Look deeper into the causes that resulted in a man being mugged on an airline. A shift in corporate mission to maximum profits gave birth to this kind of treatment decades ago.
Wednesday, April 12, 2017The United Airlines Incident Isn't Just About Airlines Look deeper into the causes that resulted in a man being mugged on an airline. A shift in corporate mission to maximum profits gave birth to this kind of treatment decades ago.
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Monday, January 6, 2014
Pope's Actions Expose The Search for a Superior Moral Justification for Selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith gave us a something to think about when he wrote, "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
Monday, January 6, 2014Pope's Actions Expose The Search for a Superior Moral Justification for Selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith gave us a something to think about when he wrote, "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
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Friday, June 7, 2013
Limited Resources + Unlimited Consumption = Trouble Population growth, increased consumption, and finite resources will eventually lead to significant issues for the web of life on planet Earth.
Friday, June 7, 2013Limited Resources + Unlimited Consumption = Trouble Population growth, increased consumption, and finite resources will eventually lead to significant issues for the web of life on planet Earth.
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017
We've Stepped Over the Edge of Climate Change. If you think this is simply politics as usual, consider this. Our government is protecting the rights of the corporate entities that profit from this disaster rather than protecting us, our children and our grandchildren. At a deeper level, they are protecting their power to deny effective action to keep campaign funds flowing into their coffers.
Wednesday, July 12, 2017We've Stepped Over the Edge of Climate Change. If you think this is simply politics as usual, consider this. Our government is protecting the rights of the corporate entities that profit from this disaster rather than protecting us, our children and our grandchildren. At a deeper level, they are protecting their power to deny effective action to keep campaign funds flowing into their coffers.
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Friday, August 1, 2014
Children, You're Not Welcome Here! On the surface one might ask what happened to America's big heart? The one that donates time, money, physical help to people in natural disasters in foreign countries. The country that is the home of tens of thousands of young men and women who have given their lives in defense of other homelands?
Friday, August 1, 2014Children, You're Not Welcome Here! On the surface one might ask what happened to America's big heart? The one that donates time, money, physical help to people in natural disasters in foreign countries. The country that is the home of tens of thousands of young men and women who have given their lives in defense of other homelands?
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Breaking News: Obama Finally Tells the Truth. He finally tells the truth and confirms all the vicious rumors. What a relief. Thank you Mr. President.
Sunday, April 28, 2013Breaking News: Obama Finally Tells the Truth. He finally tells the truth and confirms all the vicious rumors. What a relief. Thank you Mr. President.
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
I Wasn't a Racist as a Young Man but I Am Now. I grew up in a sundown town and didn't know I was a racist until I left. Now I own and manage my racism but will never be cured.
Saturday, March 30, 2013I Wasn't a Racist as a Young Man but I Am Now. I grew up in a sundown town and didn't know I was a racist until I left. Now I own and manage my racism but will never be cured.
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Thursday, June 30, 2016
And the Beat Goes On: Mega-rich get richer. Society Crumbles Think of the Mideast. Think ISIS here. Think of terrorism. Terrorists don't attack us because of our freedoms. They attack out of desperation. Out of a frustration that comes with no future, and a feeling of impotence in the face of the continued economic violence committed in the name of corporate profits and greed. Corporations protected by the most powerful military in the history of the world. Ours!
Thursday, June 30, 2016And the Beat Goes On: Mega-rich get richer. Society Crumbles Think of the Mideast. Think ISIS here. Think of terrorism. Terrorists don't attack us because of our freedoms. They attack out of desperation. Out of a frustration that comes with no future, and a feeling of impotence in the face of the continued economic violence committed in the name of corporate profits and greed. Corporations protected by the most powerful military in the history of the world. Ours!
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Monday, October 26, 2020
What's Beneath the Chaos We're Experiencing. Today, three primary dynamics have been at work in our society for several decades. When taken to extremes, they create a good deal of mischief in the form of society's convulsions. This article describes those dynamics.
Monday, October 26, 2020What's Beneath the Chaos We're Experiencing. Today, three primary dynamics have been at work in our society for several decades. When taken to extremes, they create a good deal of mischief in the form of society's convulsions. This article describes those dynamics.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
We're Slowly Replacing Politicians With Something Scarier Neither party represents my interests anymore. And a new kind of creature now occupies the White House. A non-political enigma who "walks and acts like a duck but isn't."
Wednesday, June 21, 2017We're Slowly Replacing Politicians With Something Scarier Neither party represents my interests anymore. And a new kind of creature now occupies the White House. A non-political enigma who "walks and acts like a duck but isn't."
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Monday, February 9, 2015
He's at it Again: Pope Teaching True Christianity! To these Pauline Christians, the task of extricating extremist right wing politics from their perverted religious interpretations is onerous. An onerous task made more difficult because when their form of religion is used as an ideological pretext to political ambitions, there is no inspirational core on which to stan
Monday, February 9, 2015He's at it Again: Pope Teaching True Christianity! To these Pauline Christians, the task of extricating extremist right wing politics from their perverted religious interpretations is onerous. An onerous task made more difficult because when their form of religion is used as an ideological pretext to political ambitions, there is no inspirational core on which to stan
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Sunday, March 17, 2013
The Three Poisons of Human Suffering The Buddha's approach to understanding suffering and it's antidotes
Sunday, March 17, 2013The Three Poisons of Human Suffering The Buddha's approach to understanding suffering and it's antidotes
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013
More Blatant Racism From Rural America Racism raises its ugly head in Missouri at a backwater fair rodeo.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013More Blatant Racism From Rural America Racism raises its ugly head in Missouri at a backwater fair rodeo.
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
What's happening to us old white men? Are old white men the last group we can generalize about? If so, why? Some old white men have suffered more than anyone else at the hands of other old white men.
Thursday, February 22, 2018What's happening to us old white men? Are old white men the last group we can generalize about? If so, why? Some old white men have suffered more than anyone else at the hands of other old white men.
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Saturday, November 16, 2013
Do We Hate Each Other in America? The truth is the nation was never unified. It was dominated by an archetype from one of the eleven nations that make up America. And the upheaval we suffer is shaped by a futile effort of that group (think Republican Party here) to maintain domination rather than share power.
Saturday, November 16, 2013Do We Hate Each Other in America? The truth is the nation was never unified. It was dominated by an archetype from one of the eleven nations that make up America. And the upheaval we suffer is shaped by a futile effort of that group (think Republican Party here) to maintain domination rather than share power.
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Monday, January 23, 2017
Alternative Facts are Real Facts During the last several years we have been traveling a road to perdition. This road being the road to different information sources to justify our opinions. So much so that we've arrived at a point where we've diminished the value of facts in favor of strongly held opinions.
Monday, January 23, 2017Alternative Facts are Real Facts During the last several years we have been traveling a road to perdition. This road being the road to different information sources to justify our opinions. So much so that we've arrived at a point where we've diminished the value of facts in favor of strongly held opinions.
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
"The dulling of humanity: Humans aren't getting smarter, they say. We're getting stupider. Are we drowning in stupid ideas? If so, why? Two factors seem to be merging to create our current circumstances.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013"The dulling of humanity: Humans aren't getting smarter, they say. We're getting stupider. Are we drowning in stupid ideas? If so, why? Two factors seem to be merging to create our current circumstances.
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Michelle Bachman: We Don't Need No Stinking Facts. She's not running and we'll miss her contributions to the post facts national dialogue.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013Michelle Bachman: We Don't Need No Stinking Facts. She's not running and we'll miss her contributions to the post facts national dialogue.
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
Is There a War on Christianity or is it on Evangelizing? Religions are based on propositions that attempt to explain what we don't understand. But certain people are not satisfied to respect religious choice as personal.
Saturday, May 4, 2013Is There a War on Christianity or is it on Evangelizing? Religions are based on propositions that attempt to explain what we don't understand. But certain people are not satisfied to respect religious choice as personal.
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
Zimmerman Free. Martin Dead. The Rest of Us Languish in a Hobbesian Trap. The national condition that gives rise to the tragedies like Trayvon Martin's death were described by Hobbes 500 years ago.
Sunday, July 14, 2013Zimmerman Free. Martin Dead. The Rest of Us Languish in a Hobbesian Trap. The national condition that gives rise to the tragedies like Trayvon Martin's death were described by Hobbes 500 years ago.
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Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Why don't facts convince anyone anymore? Have you ever failed to convince another person even though you had the facts? Probably yes, right? There's a relatively simple explanation.
Tuesday, November 7, 2017Why don't facts convince anyone anymore? Have you ever failed to convince another person even though you had the facts? Probably yes, right? There's a relatively simple explanation.
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Monday, July 18, 2016
Three More Dead! Surprised? Really? We see these tragic events as single actions committed by individuals and fail to see the dynamics of a system that spawns them. To act as though systemic factors don't affect an individual's behavior is to assure that we'll keep seeing these horrific events unfold unabated in the future.
Monday, July 18, 2016Three More Dead! Surprised? Really? We see these tragic events as single actions committed by individuals and fail to see the dynamics of a system that spawns them. To act as though systemic factors don't affect an individual's behavior is to assure that we'll keep seeing these horrific events unfold unabated in the future.
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Saturday, January 11, 2020
The Terrorism of Fundamental Evangelical Christianity Speaking of perversions, there is a pernicious religious flavoring in the United States that corrupts the very basis of our inborn moral nature. And that religious flavoring is Fundamental Christian Evangelicalism and it has been insinuating itself into our government since Ronald Reagan.
Saturday, January 11, 2020The Terrorism of Fundamental Evangelical Christianity Speaking of perversions, there is a pernicious religious flavoring in the United States that corrupts the very basis of our inborn moral nature. And that religious flavoring is Fundamental Christian Evangelicalism and it has been insinuating itself into our government since Ronald Reagan.
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Friday, February 14, 2020
No One Can Pass the Democrat's Litmus Tests For some reason, the American mind seems to be oblivious to systems thinking, i.e., how the many systems within which we live affect our actions. This gives us an impoverished model to predict how a politician will act in the future. We cannot only consider the individual and not the circumstances within which that person behaved in the past. We do so at our own peril.
Friday, February 14, 2020No One Can Pass the Democrat's Litmus Tests For some reason, the American mind seems to be oblivious to systems thinking, i.e., how the many systems within which we live affect our actions. This gives us an impoverished model to predict how a politician will act in the future. We cannot only consider the individual and not the circumstances within which that person behaved in the past. We do so at our own peril.
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Saturday, June 24, 2017
The Boiled Frog Story: An Updated Version Is it too late for all us frogs to jump from the boiling water? Where would we go? No. We're cooked and the Republicans are turning up the heat a few more degrees anyway.
Saturday, June 24, 2017The Boiled Frog Story: An Updated Version Is it too late for all us frogs to jump from the boiling water? Where would we go? No. We're cooked and the Republicans are turning up the heat a few more degrees anyway.
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Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Functioning Well in a Dysfunctional Society How can we function well in a dysfunctional society? The answer has to do with the long view and owning your observer.
Wednesday, January 8, 2020Functioning Well in a Dysfunctional Society How can we function well in a dysfunctional society? The answer has to do with the long view and owning your observer.
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Bachmann Strikes Again: Don't Work = Don't Eat. Making the claim that those who do not work should not eat is a direct result of a failure to see the real world and its complexities.
Friday, June 21, 2013Bachmann Strikes Again: Don't Work = Don't Eat. Making the claim that those who do not work should not eat is a direct result of a failure to see the real world and its complexities.
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Friday, March 6, 2020
So What's Wrong With The Present- Day Social Justice Warriors? The SJW's seem to be "woke" to so many social injustices and fail to see they are privileged to be living on the corpse of the dead culture t
Friday, March 6, 2020So What's Wrong With The Present- Day Social Justice Warriors? The SJW's seem to be "woke" to so many social injustices and fail to see they are privileged to be living on the corpse of the dead culture t
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Wednesday, March 8, 2017
We Are the Enemy. While a large portion of the country is frightened of foreign terrorism, the real enemy is our willingness to disqualify each other's opinions because of their political affiliation. We're harming ourselves.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017We Are the Enemy. While a large portion of the country is frightened of foreign terrorism, the real enemy is our willingness to disqualify each other's opinions because of their political affiliation. We're harming ourselves.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Faith: An Antidote to a Form of Neurotic Christianity? Is the faith that can emerge from doubt be the cure for the modern perverted form of Christian teachings?
Tuesday, July 16, 2013Faith: An Antidote to a Form of Neurotic Christianity? Is the faith that can emerge from doubt be the cure for the modern perverted form of Christian teachings?
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Bemoaning the Loss of Innocence. What Have We Wrought? How did we get from a time of innocence to the current election antics being played on the national stage? The theater of the absurd started some years back.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016Bemoaning the Loss of Innocence. What Have We Wrought? How did we get from a time of innocence to the current election antics being played on the national stage? The theater of the absurd started some years back.
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
Louis CK: "Everything is amazing and nobody is happy." We've been taught to collect facts, figures, data and information and in the process stopped listening to our hearts.
Sunday, March 31, 2013Louis CK: "Everything is amazing and nobody is happy." We've been taught to collect facts, figures, data and information and in the process stopped listening to our hearts.
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Friday, July 12, 2013
Is a Neurotic Form of Christianity Destroying America? Religion should connect not separate, yet in instance after instance the opposite is true in America.
Friday, July 12, 2013Is a Neurotic Form of Christianity Destroying America? Religion should connect not separate, yet in instance after instance the opposite is true in America.
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Saturday, August 10, 2013
God Doesn't Need Us. We Do! Let's replace our practice of praising and worshiping our gods with taking care of each other.
Saturday, August 10, 2013God Doesn't Need Us. We Do! Let's replace our practice of praising and worshiping our gods with taking care of each other.
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
"Spooky Action at a Distance." Einstein Is science beginning to explain much of what we have considered pseudo-science for so long?
Tuesday, July 2, 2013"Spooky Action at a Distance." Einstein Is science beginning to explain much of what we have considered pseudo-science for so long?
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Pope Francis = 1: Paul Ryan = 0 A couple of offhand thoughts: Mr. Ryan is a Roman Catholic, so I know he wouldn't lie. I think he just misunderstood the pope. Or maybe he's just so convinced that his party's positions are so correct that he is willing to risk the ire of the Church to correct this pope.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014Pope Francis = 1: Paul Ryan = 0 A couple of offhand thoughts: Mr. Ryan is a Roman Catholic, so I know he wouldn't lie. I think he just misunderstood the pope. Or maybe he's just so convinced that his party's positions are so correct that he is willing to risk the ire of the Church to correct this pope.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Mood of Fear = Need for Concealed Carry Here's something to think about: "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Tuesday, February 18, 2014Mood of Fear = Need for Concealed Carry Here's something to think about: "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
A Christian Story for Easter. How accurate is the Easter story? Might it be influenced by other factors?
Saturday, March 23, 2013A Christian Story for Easter. How accurate is the Easter story? Might it be influenced by other factors?
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Where can we find a more relevant example of organized irresponsibility than Washington, D.C.? Organized irresponsibility is destroying our planet while we insist on maximizing shareholder value.
Monday, March 25, 2013Where can we find a more relevant example of organized irresponsibility than Washington, D.C.? Organized irresponsibility is destroying our planet while we insist on maximizing shareholder value.
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Friday, April 10, 2020
Another Nail in Democracy's Coffin. Thanks SCOTUS! Keep in mind SCOTUS have lifetime appointments. We can plainly see how the conservative design for long range control is being played out. With the help of Mitch McConnell, we now have a well-entrenched conservative activist court that will last far beyond the demise of this reactive political formation that calls itself the Republican Party.
Friday, April 10, 2020Another Nail in Democracy's Coffin. Thanks SCOTUS! Keep in mind SCOTUS have lifetime appointments. We can plainly see how the conservative design for long range control is being played out. With the help of Mitch McConnell, we now have a well-entrenched conservative activist court that will last far beyond the demise of this reactive political formation that calls itself the Republican Party.
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Monday, April 8, 2013
America was founded as a Christian nation: Another Fantasy from the Right. Among the many fantasies coming from the religious right is "America was founded as a Christian nation. The founder would be very surprised if they were alive today.
Monday, April 8, 2013America was founded as a Christian nation: Another Fantasy from the Right. Among the many fantasies coming from the religious right is "America was founded as a Christian nation. The founder would be very surprised if they were alive today.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Government Shutdown: A Ploy of the Christian Right? It should concern us all that there is a well-funded movement pressing science, intellectual discourse, and reason out of the public domain and attempting to replace them with pre-enlightenment thinking or, in Harris's words, with "a vastitude of ignorance."
Tuesday, October 8, 2013Government Shutdown: A Ploy of the Christian Right? It should concern us all that there is a well-funded movement pressing science, intellectual discourse, and reason out of the public domain and attempting to replace them with pre-enlightenment thinking or, in Harris's words, with "a vastitude of ignorance."
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Willful Ignorance: An American Ideal? Economist Paul Krugman's, comment explains what will happen, "When faith meets evidence, evidence doesn't stand a chance." And this is the culture media for willful ignorance to flourish.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014Willful Ignorance: An American Ideal? Economist Paul Krugman's, comment explains what will happen, "When faith meets evidence, evidence doesn't stand a chance." And this is the culture media for willful ignorance to flourish.
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Saturday, January 21, 2017
Science, Religion, or Both? Science tells us one story and religion another. Neither is complete. Neither offers absolutes. Together they offer profound new questions. In union, they can give us a depth of understanding that leads to a new level of comfort and assurance.
Saturday, January 21, 2017Science, Religion, or Both? Science tells us one story and religion another. Neither is complete. Neither offers absolutes. Together they offer profound new questions. In union, they can give us a depth of understanding that leads to a new level of comfort and assurance.
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Monday, August 20, 2018
An Antidote to the Poison in our National Narrative? We can recover from this devastating polarity but it will take an enormous effort.
Monday, August 20, 2018An Antidote to the Poison in our National Narrative? We can recover from this devastating polarity but it will take an enormous effort.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Taxes are the Lifeblood of a Healthy Society When money doesn't come back into society (like from taxes) and it's kept out of circulation, society gets to a point where it simply can't function. Here's some news that has been proven fake for forty years: Keep taxes low on the uber wealthy and benefits will trickle down to the rest of us.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020Taxes are the Lifeblood of a Healthy Society When money doesn't come back into society (like from taxes) and it's kept out of circulation, society gets to a point where it simply can't function. Here's some news that has been proven fake for forty years: Keep taxes low on the uber wealthy and benefits will trickle down to the rest of us.
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
God vs. god. Does our displacement of the sacred allow the inhumanity that plagues the planet?
Thursday, March 28, 2013God vs. god. Does our displacement of the sacred allow the inhumanity that plagues the planet?
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Friday, May 19, 2017
Roger Ailes Didn't Invent Hate. He Was Just the Distributor? Roger Ailes died and we are the beneficiaries of the hate he distributed through his cable news organization. I had a big taste of it this week. It left we very worried for our society.
Friday, May 19, 2017Roger Ailes Didn't Invent Hate. He Was Just the Distributor? Roger Ailes died and we are the beneficiaries of the hate he distributed through his cable news organization. I had a big taste of it this week. It left we very worried for our society.
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Friday, September 27, 2013
Facts Don't Matter In Politics Why try to provide the facts to support an argument? Why spend countless hours scanning the Internet for information that will expose the truths underlying the artifice we call reality?
Friday, September 27, 2013Facts Don't Matter In Politics Why try to provide the facts to support an argument? Why spend countless hours scanning the Internet for information that will expose the truths underlying the artifice we call reality?
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Do We Need Religion? Religion is getting a bad rap today. Do we need it or can we do just fine without it?
Tuesday, May 14, 2013Do We Need Religion? Religion is getting a bad rap today. Do we need it or can we do just fine without it?
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Fundamentalism, Ignorance and Fear for Profit. In our postmodern, fact-free democracy my ignorance is as good as your knowledge and I can prove it. Just check the wealth of those who purvey their fear as fact.
Friday, May 10, 2013Fundamentalism, Ignorance and Fear for Profit. In our postmodern, fact-free democracy my ignorance is as good as your knowledge and I can prove it. Just check the wealth of those who purvey their fear as fact.
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Thursday, June 1, 2017
The N word in America The use of the N word reveals much about the hidden psyche in America. A psyche that was born in the scandalous beginnings of the country that calls itself exceptional among all other nations.
Thursday, June 1, 2017The N word in America The use of the N word reveals much about the hidden psyche in America. A psyche that was born in the scandalous beginnings of the country that calls itself exceptional among all other nations.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Is the Oval Office the Proverbial China Shop? The jobs replaced by automation won't come back. The terrorism done by American citizens won't be eliminated by banning immigrants. The deregulation of laws that protect us and our environment won't provide clean air and water. The wealth that accrues to the top one percent won't trickle down. The clueless billionaires who head up agencies they don't understand won't be the saviors of the common citizen.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017Is the Oval Office the Proverbial China Shop? The jobs replaced by automation won't come back. The terrorism done by American citizens won't be eliminated by banning immigrants. The deregulation of laws that protect us and our environment won't provide clean air and water. The wealth that accrues to the top one percent won't trickle down. The clueless billionaires who head up agencies they don't understand won't be the saviors of the common citizen.
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Monday, May 8, 2017
Let's Pause for Sanity. If you're religious, you might say that meditation and prayer are attempts to experience God. If not, you might say they're attempts to experience the true nature of reality. Either way, we should learn to respect each other's journey toward a common destination that goes by many names. It might save our shared reality we're so fond of arguing about.
Monday, May 8, 2017Let's Pause for Sanity. If you're religious, you might say that meditation and prayer are attempts to experience God. If not, you might say they're attempts to experience the true nature of reality. Either way, we should learn to respect each other's journey toward a common destination that goes by many names. It might save our shared reality we're so fond of arguing about.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
The New Pope Did What? Why would a new Pope reject the core doctrines of the Church he leads?
Tuesday, April 16, 2013The New Pope Did What? Why would a new Pope reject the core doctrines of the Church he leads?
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Sunday, January 26, 2020
"Because right matters. The truth matters. Otherwise we're lost." Adam Schiff. Republicans biggest sin is the destruction of "right and truth." By allowing and defending a renegade president they are corrupting the core values at the soul of this nation. If the United States has been anything, it has been the promise of right and truth; the right contained in a judicial system governed by the rule of law; the truth defended by a free press. Both institutions run by fallible human beings and not always a
Sunday, January 26, 2020"Because right matters. The truth matters. Otherwise we're lost." Adam Schiff. Republicans biggest sin is the destruction of "right and truth." By allowing and defending a renegade president they are corrupting the core values at the soul of this nation. If the United States has been anything, it has been the promise of right and truth; the right contained in a judicial system governed by the rule of law; the truth defended by a free press. Both institutions run by fallible human beings and not always a
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Friday, May 5, 2017
House Republican's Health Care Bill: If It Walks Like a Duck The Republican Healthcare Bill is the rich person's tax relief plan of 2017. Understand the details before you take a position.
Friday, May 5, 2017House Republican's Health Care Bill: If It Walks Like a Duck The Republican Healthcare Bill is the rich person's tax relief plan of 2017. Understand the details before you take a position.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Having Faith in an Enchanted Universe Is religion as guilty as science for disenchanting the universe. Does faith in the unknown require the universe to be re-enchanted? Or does the long arc of evolution deserve our faith unaided by human stories and explanations?
Wednesday, July 17, 2013Having Faith in an Enchanted Universe Is religion as guilty as science for disenchanting the universe. Does faith in the unknown require the universe to be re-enchanted? Or does the long arc of evolution deserve our faith unaided by human stories and explanations?
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Friday, August 12, 2016
How Did We Invent the Trump Candidacy? He has no credentials for the role for which he supposedly aspires. He is simply the product of a society that knows not its own power to create the illness he represents.
Friday, August 12, 2016How Did We Invent the Trump Candidacy? He has no credentials for the role for which he supposedly aspires. He is simply the product of a society that knows not its own power to create the illness he represents.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
What Did the Buddha Teach to Make Our Christmas Joyful? While O'Reilly and his Fox friends yammer on about their imaginary war, (their form of crass commercialism for personal gain) this column offers an antidote that might be more useful.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013What Did the Buddha Teach to Make Our Christmas Joyful? While O'Reilly and his Fox friends yammer on about their imaginary war, (their form of crass commercialism for personal gain) this column offers an antidote that might be more useful.
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Monday, July 17, 2017
Rules? We Don't Need No Stinking Rules! In corporations the higher you go the righter you are. Now we're seeing how this works in government as the GOP and the Trump administration create their daily pandemonium.
Monday, July 17, 2017Rules? We Don't Need No Stinking Rules! In corporations the higher you go the righter you are. Now we're seeing how this works in government as the GOP and the Trump administration create their daily pandemonium.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Should Medicare Really Pay for Seniors' Penis Pumps? I need to laugh because if I don't, I will cry uncontrollably. Why? I read the above item the morning after I was reviewing charges to Medicare for the foam rubber filter on my CPAP breathing machine. It is approximately 1 & inches by inch by inch and Medicare is charged $13.99. It's a stretch to say it has $.01 worth of material in it.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014Should Medicare Really Pay for Seniors' Penis Pumps? I need to laugh because if I don't, I will cry uncontrollably. Why? I read the above item the morning after I was reviewing charges to Medicare for the foam rubber filter on my CPAP breathing machine. It is approximately 1 & inches by inch by inch and Medicare is charged $13.99. It's a stretch to say it has $.01 worth of material in it.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Believing Everything We Think: The Cognitive Bias that Keeps Us Stuck. We can't do anything to completely eliminate the cognitive biases that both help and hinder us. There are hundreds of them, and a quick Google search will turn up plenty for a rainy day's contemplation. But this article deals with just one of the many.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017Believing Everything We Think: The Cognitive Bias that Keeps Us Stuck. We can't do anything to completely eliminate the cognitive biases that both help and hinder us. There are hundreds of them, and a quick Google search will turn up plenty for a rainy day's contemplation. But this article deals with just one of the many.
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Monday, May 15, 2017
Strong Man Leadership or National Disgrace? Effective leadership is simple and complex at the same time. It is simple because it's based on a natural human connection. It's complex for the same reason. Human beings are complex and emotional, regardless of how steadfastly we insist that rational thinking will always triumph. Now we have the ultimate challenge to the question of effective leadership.
Monday, May 15, 2017Strong Man Leadership or National Disgrace? Effective leadership is simple and complex at the same time. It is simple because it's based on a natural human connection. It's complex for the same reason. Human beings are complex and emotional, regardless of how steadfastly we insist that rational thinking will always triumph. Now we have the ultimate challenge to the question of effective leadership.
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Friday, September 8, 2017
And the Winner Is? The End of the American Century. While we diddle with insignificant populist issues, China is uniting itself with Europe and Africa to from a geophysical economic system that will dominate for the next century.
Friday, September 8, 2017And the Winner Is? The End of the American Century. While we diddle with insignificant populist issues, China is uniting itself with Europe and Africa to from a geophysical economic system that will dominate for the next century.
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Saturday, January 4, 2020
A Not-Trump Controversy Dr.Peterson point out that our ideological possessions limits our ability to have honest dialog. The ironic part of this phenomena is that while he campaigns against the ideological trances that possess us, his critics demonstrate how possessed they've become.
Saturday, January 4, 2020A Not-Trump Controversy Dr.Peterson point out that our ideological possessions limits our ability to have honest dialog. The ironic part of this phenomena is that while he campaigns against the ideological trances that possess us, his critics demonstrate how possessed they've become.
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Thursday, June 29, 2017
We Need a Divorce Before We Destroy Ourselves. I find the preservation of the union to be less important than the preservation of a representative democracy.
Thursday, June 29, 2017We Need a Divorce Before We Destroy Ourselves. I find the preservation of the union to be less important than the preservation of a representative democracy.
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Friday, February 28, 2014
Does Jan Brewer's Veto Unlock the Gates of Hell? The very effect the Christian right fears is being caused by their own extreme and misguided ideology. In the void created by the absence of religion, our young people are learning their values from popular culture.
Friday, February 28, 2014Does Jan Brewer's Veto Unlock the Gates of Hell? The very effect the Christian right fears is being caused by their own extreme and misguided ideology. In the void created by the absence of religion, our young people are learning their values from popular culture.
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Monday, January 13, 2014
We Don't Need No Stinking Jobs. We Got Government Benies. The theory X advocate says most people are inherently lazy, dislike work and will avoid it if they can. The theory Y advocate says that most people are ambitious and self-motivated and will exercise self-control. They are motivated to work. So who's right?
Monday, January 13, 2014We Don't Need No Stinking Jobs. We Got Government Benies. The theory X advocate says most people are inherently lazy, dislike work and will avoid it if they can. The theory Y advocate says that most people are ambitious and self-motivated and will exercise self-control. They are motivated to work. So who's right?
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
China's New Silk Road $1.4 Trillion. U.S. Cuts Education Funding China is on the rise, and we're stuck with a political system that stays tangled up in its own underwear. No, I'm not proposing the Chinese system would work here, as Mr. Li points out in his TED presentation. But we had better start thinking outside this box of arrogance we live in. We now have some honest to goodness competition from all over the planet, and China is leading the way.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017China's New Silk Road $1.4 Trillion. U.S. Cuts Education Funding China is on the rise, and we're stuck with a political system that stays tangled up in its own underwear. No, I'm not proposing the Chinese system would work here, as Mr. Li points out in his TED presentation. But we had better start thinking outside this box of arrogance we live in. We now have some honest to goodness competition from all over the planet, and China is leading the way.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017
The Pencil Points in our Reality The intrusions into our reality are often the golden moment of learning and new awareness.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017The Pencil Points in our Reality The intrusions into our reality are often the golden moment of learning and new awareness.
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Friday, May 9, 2014
Thou Shalt Have No False Gods Before Me. I don't believe in a god who only loves the superstitious, anti-intellectual, heterosexual, white Anglo-Saxon, Protestant archetype. You know, the false idol of the extremes of American Christianity.
Friday, May 9, 2014Thou Shalt Have No False Gods Before Me. I don't believe in a god who only loves the superstitious, anti-intellectual, heterosexual, white Anglo-Saxon, Protestant archetype. You know, the false idol of the extremes of American Christianity.
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Saturday, December 10, 2016
Where Are We Going and Why? We can see the frightening symptoms all around us but few can identify the causes. It might be because they are so deeply embedded they are transparent to the casual observer. But we might have the answers under our noses.
Saturday, December 10, 2016Where Are We Going and Why? We can see the frightening symptoms all around us but few can identify the causes. It might be because they are so deeply embedded they are transparent to the casual observer. But we might have the answers under our noses.
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Monday, January 20, 2020
Another Reason We Can't Talk to Each Other As one can plainly see when viewing from a more objective stance, the price of ideological possession is regressive individual behavior. It shows up on our inability to see the consequences of our actions even when they negatively affect others.
Monday, January 20, 2020Another Reason We Can't Talk to Each Other As one can plainly see when viewing from a more objective stance, the price of ideological possession is regressive individual behavior. It shows up on our inability to see the consequences of our actions even when they negatively affect others.
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Friday, February 7, 2020
Notes From Fantasyland I think here is a direct connection to the fact that the United States is one of the most religious countries in the modern world; an especially pernicious brand of Christianity not seen anywhere but here. And for that to be true, the difference between fantasy and reality are particularly difficult to distinguish.
Friday, February 7, 2020Notes From Fantasyland I think here is a direct connection to the fact that the United States is one of the most religious countries in the modern world; an especially pernicious brand of Christianity not seen anywhere but here. And for that to be true, the difference between fantasy and reality are particularly difficult to distinguish.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016
An open letter to my fellow progressives, The time to think of Donald Trump as a joke, an anomaly, is long past. For his loyal followers, he's the king. And they will be at the polling stations in large numbers anxious to bring an end to their misery by electing a man who understands their plight and will lead them back to the American dream that made America great. You can take this to the bank.
Tuesday, August 9, 2016An open letter to my fellow progressives, The time to think of Donald Trump as a joke, an anomaly, is long past. For his loyal followers, he's the king. And they will be at the polling stations in large numbers anxious to bring an end to their misery by electing a man who understands their plight and will lead them back to the American dream that made America great. You can take this to the bank.
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Thursday, November 10, 2016
We're Not All Haters Because Trump is President Elect. It's easy to fall prey to the idea that the United States is full of haters. That's only partially true. Most of us are disturbed and disappointed.
Thursday, November 10, 2016We're Not All Haters Because Trump is President Elect. It's easy to fall prey to the idea that the United States is full of haters. That's only partially true. Most of us are disturbed and disappointed.
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Friday, May 26, 2017
The True Soul of Deep America? Are we seeing the true soul of deep America now that our government is in the hands of the conservatives?
Friday, May 26, 2017The True Soul of Deep America? Are we seeing the true soul of deep America now that our government is in the hands of the conservatives?
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
'Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." Continuing to make America great requires a continual supply of new people. Different people with different ideas. Otherwise, as we know, closed systems tend towards chaos and decay.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017'Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." Continuing to make America great requires a continual supply of new people. Different people with different ideas. Otherwise, as we know, closed systems tend towards chaos and decay.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Who Speaks for Sincere Believers of All Faith Traditions? We're on a very slippery slope as long as reasonable people, Christians, Muslims, and Jews, the true children of Abraham, allow themselves to be represented by the lunatic fringe.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015Who Speaks for Sincere Believers of All Faith Traditions? We're on a very slippery slope as long as reasonable people, Christians, Muslims, and Jews, the true children of Abraham, allow themselves to be represented by the lunatic fringe.
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Monday, August 17, 2015
Who's Selling Your Grandchildren's Futures for Political Gain. Climate is changing. You can just believe what you've decided to believe, ignore the obvious current weather anomalies and let your grandkids fend for themselves or begin to find out the facts and what we need to do. It's your choice.
Monday, August 17, 2015Who's Selling Your Grandchildren's Futures for Political Gain. Climate is changing. You can just believe what you've decided to believe, ignore the obvious current weather anomalies and let your grandkids fend for themselves or begin to find out the facts and what we need to do. It's your choice.
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Friday, October 9, 2020
"Houston, We Got Problems, and this ain't Apollo13." Our problems are multifaceted but there are some core issues that make them seem unsolvable. And these are the voters charged with choosing the best people to deal with our problems.
Friday, October 9, 2020"Houston, We Got Problems, and this ain't Apollo13." Our problems are multifaceted but there are some core issues that make them seem unsolvable. And these are the voters charged with choosing the best people to deal with our problems.
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Monday, October 14, 2013
A Reflection on a God in America Here's the key question: Am I being blasphemous by asking these questions or are those who believe in this particular and peculiar American god? Let's explore together.
Monday, October 14, 2013A Reflection on a God in America Here's the key question: Am I being blasphemous by asking these questions or are those who believe in this particular and peculiar American god? Let's explore together.
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Pope Francis Strikes Again: This Time It's Abortion Even though I am no longer a practicing member, I was raised and educated Roman Catholic and I still believe abortion is morally wrong for any reason. But even though I abhor the practice, I don't think it's my place to dictate how another person lives her life.Even though I am no longer a practicing member, I was raised and educated Roman Catholic and I still believe abortion is morally wrong for any reason.
Thursday, January 30, 2014Pope Francis Strikes Again: This Time It's Abortion Even though I am no longer a practicing member, I was raised and educated Roman Catholic and I still believe abortion is morally wrong for any reason. But even though I abhor the practice, I don't think it's my place to dictate how another person lives her life.Even though I am no longer a practicing member, I was raised and educated Roman Catholic and I still believe abortion is morally wrong for any reason.
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
Christian Apologetics: Revisting Faith and Reason Can we come to faith through reason? What happens when reason fails us? We must deconstruct to find the universal human truths in our holy texts.
Thursday, May 9, 2013Christian Apologetics: Revisting Faith and Reason Can we come to faith through reason? What happens when reason fails us? We must deconstruct to find the universal human truths in our holy texts.
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Friday, February 3, 2017
Trump: "I will totally destroy the Johnson Amendment." Trump's statement was a nod to the Fundamentalist Christian Evangelical Right [i] who supported him. Their goal is that found in Christian Dominionism. His promise is another step in a well-organized plan that starts with the Home Schooling movement.
Friday, February 3, 2017Trump: "I will totally destroy the Johnson Amendment." Trump's statement was a nod to the Fundamentalist Christian Evangelical Right [i] who supported him. Their goal is that found in Christian Dominionism. His promise is another step in a well-organized plan that starts with the Home Schooling movement.
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Thursday, August 31, 2017
Truth is Lost in Our National Hallucination As we can readily see by the everyday mistruths from the president and the silence from his party, we can forget the truth. The only thing that counts is sustaining the hallucination that is the United States. For instance, "We were once great and we're going to make America Great Again." "We are a Christian nation and are blessed by God above all others."
Thursday, August 31, 2017Truth is Lost in Our National Hallucination As we can readily see by the everyday mistruths from the president and the silence from his party, we can forget the truth. The only thing that counts is sustaining the hallucination that is the United States. For instance, "We were once great and we're going to make America Great Again." "We are a Christian nation and are blessed by God above all others."
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Monday, February 24, 2014
General Boykin: Owning an AR-15 is Biblical. So in this unique American version of fundamentalist Christianity, the Lord has cleaved society into at least two camps: Those who will do the slaying and those who will be slain. What better reason to own an automatic weapon, as General Boykin urges, than to be on the side of those doing the slaying, in the name of Jesus, of course?
Monday, February 24, 2014General Boykin: Owning an AR-15 is Biblical. So in this unique American version of fundamentalist Christianity, the Lord has cleaved society into at least two camps: Those who will do the slaying and those who will be slain. What better reason to own an automatic weapon, as General Boykin urges, than to be on the side of those doing the slaying, in the name of Jesus, of course?
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Saturday, February 14, 2015
Despicable Act in Chapel Hill: Victims Include the Shooter As senseless as the loss of three promising young people was, they were not the only victims of this horrendous act. The killer is a victim of a sick subculture in our society.
Saturday, February 14, 2015Despicable Act in Chapel Hill: Victims Include the Shooter As senseless as the loss of three promising young people was, they were not the only victims of this horrendous act. The killer is a victim of a sick subculture in our society.
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Friday, February 21, 2014
More Guns: Symptom of Illness in Society As counter-intuitive as it may sound, that the social norms are the reason for the pathology, the evidence is undeniable. We are living in a society that is tearing itself apart, ostensibly to save itself.
Friday, February 21, 2014More Guns: Symptom of Illness in Society As counter-intuitive as it may sound, that the social norms are the reason for the pathology, the evidence is undeniable. We are living in a society that is tearing itself apart, ostensibly to save itself.
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Monday, September 15, 2014
Who's Responsible for Your Morality? Although most elements of our unique brand of American Christian extremism have earned our rebuke, we might dismiss something very important in the process of our rejection. Religion is, in more instances than not, a practical road to individual moral development. The problems show up when people don't complete the journey.
Monday, September 15, 2014Who's Responsible for Your Morality? Although most elements of our unique brand of American Christian extremism have earned our rebuke, we might dismiss something very important in the process of our rejection. Religion is, in more instances than not, a practical road to individual moral development. The problems show up when people don't complete the journey.
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Friday, April 21, 2017
Can I Learn to Stop Worrying and Love This Bomb? We all have a serious choice to make. And that choice is beginning to look like the last real freedom we have. With the takeover of government by the military industrial complex, only mass voter turnouts will balance the power.
Friday, April 21, 2017Can I Learn to Stop Worrying and Love This Bomb? We all have a serious choice to make. And that choice is beginning to look like the last real freedom we have. With the takeover of government by the military industrial complex, only mass voter turnouts will balance the power.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
The Redistribution of Wealth Continues Wealth is being redistributed from the bottom to the top but the mega rich will never have enough.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013The Redistribution of Wealth Continues Wealth is being redistributed from the bottom to the top but the mega rich will never have enough.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Recent History of GOP Foretold Trump. How can such a controversial character like Trump be in the position to take his candidacy to the voters in November? It has a lot to do with the unstable condition of the Republican party and his equally disturbed supporter.
Wednesday, July 13, 2016Recent History of GOP Foretold Trump. How can such a controversial character like Trump be in the position to take his candidacy to the voters in November? It has a lot to do with the unstable condition of the Republican party and his equally disturbed supporter.
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Monday, June 3, 2013
The Truth is Too Messy for Church How can the most religious modern country in the world, ignore its own religious teachings with such impunity?
Monday, June 3, 2013The Truth is Too Messy for Church How can the most religious modern country in the world, ignore its own religious teachings with such impunity?
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Friday, January 17, 2014
The Fading Artifice of American Democracy The American illusion of a representative democracy has strayed too far from the reality. Regardless of what he or she says during elections, no individual politician's promises will ever shape his or her party's platform. Collaboration for the benefit of our society is an obsolete concept.
Friday, January 17, 2014The Fading Artifice of American Democracy The American illusion of a representative democracy has strayed too far from the reality. Regardless of what he or she says during elections, no individual politician's promises will ever shape his or her party's platform. Collaboration for the benefit of our society is an obsolete concept.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Degradation of Our Educational System is Canary in the Mineshaft Our graduates carry a debt load of $1.2 trillion dollars while the cost of a college degree in the United States has increased "12 fold" over the past 30 years, far outpacing the price inflation of consumer goods, medical expenses and food.
Tuesday, October 21, 2014Degradation of Our Educational System is Canary in the Mineshaft Our graduates carry a debt load of $1.2 trillion dollars while the cost of a college degree in the United States has increased "12 fold" over the past 30 years, far outpacing the price inflation of consumer goods, medical expenses and food.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
I Took a Trip on a Train and I thought About... Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Mercer were looking at America in 1939. I was looking at America in 2014. I wondered what had caused so much change. Then it came to me. We were in the southern red states where the Republican economic policies abound in freedoms.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014I Took a Trip on a Train and I thought About... Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Mercer were looking at America in 1939. I was looking at America in 2014. I wondered what had caused so much change. Then it came to me. We were in the southern red states where the Republican economic policies abound in freedoms.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Religious Freedom: Free to Leave If You Don't Believe. "Fox News host Dana Perino this week suggested that atheists should leave the country instead of trying to maintain the separation of church and state." I wonder what she has in mind for agnostics.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013Religious Freedom: Free to Leave If You Don't Believe. "Fox News host Dana Perino this week suggested that atheists should leave the country instead of trying to maintain the separation of church and state." I wonder what she has in mind for agnostics.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Corona Crisis: A Symptom of the Neoliberal Plague When you want to blame capitalism for our plight, you're only halfway right. It's not the system. It's the neoliberal plague that's infected it for forty years.
Tuesday, April 7, 2020Corona Crisis: A Symptom of the Neoliberal Plague When you want to blame capitalism for our plight, you're only halfway right. It's not the system. It's the neoliberal plague that's infected it for forty years.
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Monday, September 25, 2017
The Dangers of Free Speech Do we really want free speech and the expression of ideas that we don't like? What's to be gained and what's to be lost?
Monday, September 25, 2017The Dangers of Free Speech Do we really want free speech and the expression of ideas that we don't like? What's to be gained and what's to be lost?
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Is Darwinian Evolution a Complete Explanation of Life? Is Darwin's theory of evolution the complete explanation? I suspect there is a lot more to know and some of it is covered in this article.
Thursday, April 4, 2013Is Darwinian Evolution a Complete Explanation of Life? Is Darwin's theory of evolution the complete explanation? I suspect there is a lot more to know and some of it is covered in this article.
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Saturday, May 11, 2013
The Benghazi Story: The Great American Ripoff. Who's telling the truth? Will we ever know as long as politics is so polarized?
Saturday, May 11, 2013The Benghazi Story: The Great American Ripoff. Who's telling the truth? Will we ever know as long as politics is so polarized?
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Monday, December 8, 2014
We're as Sick as Our Secrets You see, the problem is that until we can openly admit that our country's foundation is crazed through with injustices, we will all continue to be victims. Whether it be the Michael Browns or the people who kill them or the friends and families who suffer their losses; all victims of the same systemic illness we see, deflect, deny, project, and in every other way resist every day of our lives.
Monday, December 8, 2014We're as Sick as Our Secrets You see, the problem is that until we can openly admit that our country's foundation is crazed through with injustices, we will all continue to be victims. Whether it be the Michael Browns or the people who kill them or the friends and families who suffer their losses; all victims of the same systemic illness we see, deflect, deny, project, and in every other way resist every day of our lives.
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Do We Need Religion?: Part II I think we need religion regardless of of the naysayers. But it's a different kind of religion that I write about.
Monday, July 8, 2013Do We Need Religion?: Part II I think we need religion regardless of of the naysayers. But it's a different kind of religion that I write about.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015
I'm No scientist. I'm a Worried Grandfather. Everything is preceded by some causal event. If this is true, it must follow that events today will cause events tomorrow and all the tomorrows of our future. So given our seeming inability to deal with our real issues and instead focus on simple-minded concerns like some movie star's sexual orientation, one hundred years from now things might look like this:
Tuesday, August 11, 2015I'm No scientist. I'm a Worried Grandfather. Everything is preceded by some causal event. If this is true, it must follow that events today will cause events tomorrow and all the tomorrows of our future. So given our seeming inability to deal with our real issues and instead focus on simple-minded concerns like some movie star's sexual orientation, one hundred years from now things might look like this:
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Thursday, April 27, 2017
What Happened to Compassion? I read a quote some time ago, and I can't give credit to who said it. But to paraphrase, if we are going to keep pulling drowning people out down-river, we should figure out how to stop throwing them in up-river.
Thursday, April 27, 2017What Happened to Compassion? I read a quote some time ago, and I can't give credit to who said it. But to paraphrase, if we are going to keep pulling drowning people out down-river, we should figure out how to stop throwing them in up-river.
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Monday, October 7, 2013
American Dystopia Anyone but the deluded, clueless and/or marginally conscious can see the crisis is being created by the very congress that claims it's Mr. Obama's fault for not being willing to negotiate away a law passed by the congress, tested by the Supreme Court and ratified again by an election of the same president.
Monday, October 7, 2013American Dystopia Anyone but the deluded, clueless and/or marginally conscious can see the crisis is being created by the very congress that claims it's Mr. Obama's fault for not being willing to negotiate away a law passed by the congress, tested by the Supreme Court and ratified again by an election of the same president.
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Speaking Truth to the PowerLESS Speaking truth to the powerful is considered a valiant act, although in most instances, it's also futile. The reason seems to be that the powerful have a lot to conserve and aren't much interested in anyone's truth but their own.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013Speaking Truth to the PowerLESS Speaking truth to the powerful is considered a valiant act, although in most instances, it's also futile. The reason seems to be that the powerful have a lot to conserve and aren't much interested in anyone's truth but their own.
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Saturday, July 14, 2018
Still Believe in Super Heroes? I can find a part of me that admires Trump. Don't condemn we too quickly. Read on.
Saturday, July 14, 2018Still Believe in Super Heroes? I can find a part of me that admires Trump. Don't condemn we too quickly. Read on.
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Friday, May 3, 2013
Dalai Lama, Jason Collins, Leviticus and You. If the purpose of religion is to control ourself, why do so many of us use it to condemn others?
Friday, May 3, 2013Dalai Lama, Jason Collins, Leviticus and You. If the purpose of religion is to control ourself, why do so many of us use it to condemn others?
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Blame it on Luther. What we're seeing is society honoring the moral authority of unqualified people who may or may not even be mentally stable. When we decree the individual and his epistemology to be sacrosanct with no further investigations or qualifications we have the moral chaos we see in America today.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014Blame it on Luther. What we're seeing is society honoring the moral authority of unqualified people who may or may not even be mentally stable. When we decree the individual and his epistemology to be sacrosanct with no further investigations or qualifications we have the moral chaos we see in America today.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
North is a Direction. The South is a Place. That's Fundamental! One factor that distinguishes the South from the rest of the country is the extent to which its form of Christianity influences everything. Now an author is proposing that we and they would be better off is they seceded. Many in the South would agree.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013North is a Direction. The South is a Place. That's Fundamental! One factor that distinguishes the South from the rest of the country is the extent to which its form of Christianity influences everything. Now an author is proposing that we and they would be better off is they seceded. Many in the South would agree.
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Friday, June 14, 2013
Businesses Add Costs to Social Programs and Complain About Taxes They Don't Pay Can we have it both ways? Lower prices and living wages for the working poor. Yes we can as long as we're willing to pay the taxes that support the social programs they use to survive.
Friday, June 14, 2013Businesses Add Costs to Social Programs and Complain About Taxes They Don't Pay Can we have it both ways? Lower prices and living wages for the working poor. Yes we can as long as we're willing to pay the taxes that support the social programs they use to survive.
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Everything I Needed to Know I Realized in My 70's Lessons I've learned about life have shaped my thinking in my retirement years.
Monday, June 17, 2013Everything I Needed to Know I Realized in My 70's Lessons I've learned about life have shaped my thinking in my retirement years.
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Monday, December 9, 2013
O'Reilly's War On Christmas But think about it. Is there really a war on Christmas? Christmas is the longest season of the year, opening up retail stores on Thanksgiving day for pre-season shopping. Those same stores are decorated, some starting in October, with seasonal trimmings from stem to stern.
Monday, December 9, 2013O'Reilly's War On Christmas But think about it. Is there really a war on Christmas? Christmas is the longest season of the year, opening up retail stores on Thanksgiving day for pre-season shopping. Those same stores are decorated, some starting in October, with seasonal trimmings from stem to stern.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Open Posthumous Letter to President Reagan The government didn't protect me from the one threat that still lies at the foundation of the problems in our society remains: A breathtaking ignorance and lack of curiosity that allows lies, myths and superstitions to fill the void it creates.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014Open Posthumous Letter to President Reagan The government didn't protect me from the one threat that still lies at the foundation of the problems in our society remains: A breathtaking ignorance and lack of curiosity that allows lies, myths and superstitions to fill the void it creates.
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Monday, July 2, 2018
So Who's Correct? Do you like to argue? Have you ever changed anyone's mind my doing so? This urge goes back a long way. It's in our DNA. Let's hope it doesn't kill us all.
Monday, July 2, 2018So Who's Correct? Do you like to argue? Have you ever changed anyone's mind my doing so? This urge goes back a long way. It's in our DNA. Let's hope it doesn't kill us all.
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Saturday, December 21, 2013
Is Phil Robertson Spreading Ignorance under the Pretext of Freedom of Expression? Ignoring the question of whose left after that all-encompassing description, the masses are now debating the rightness or wrongness of his beliefs, his expression of those beliefs, A&E's decision to take him off the air for a while, and who's more hypocritical, conservatives or progressives.
Saturday, December 21, 2013Is Phil Robertson Spreading Ignorance under the Pretext of Freedom of Expression? Ignoring the question of whose left after that all-encompassing description, the masses are now debating the rightness or wrongness of his beliefs, his expression of those beliefs, A&E's decision to take him off the air for a while, and who's more hypocritical, conservatives or progressives.
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Monday, May 1, 2017
The Destructive Illusion of Certainty There is one cognitive bias that is very common in today's world of constant streaming data. It's called confirmation/disconfirmation bias. We find evidence for and against any proposition to validate what we already believe. In a practical sense, we believe the evidence that confirms our point of view and ignore what doesn't.
Monday, May 1, 2017The Destructive Illusion of Certainty There is one cognitive bias that is very common in today's world of constant streaming data. It's called confirmation/disconfirmation bias. We find evidence for and against any proposition to validate what we already believe. In a practical sense, we believe the evidence that confirms our point of view and ignore what doesn't.
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Monday, September 16, 2013
Mysteries That Keep Me Awake at NIght Certain mysteries keep this author awake at night. And he doesn't think there are explanations.
Monday, September 16, 2013Mysteries That Keep Me Awake at NIght Certain mysteries keep this author awake at night. And he doesn't think there are explanations.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Bad President, Bad, Bad! Recently, I developed two theories about the constant nitpicking complaints and downright obscene insults thrown at this president. The obvious reason is his color. In a country with institutionalized racism, a tan-colored man in the White House is an omen. But the deeper reason that probably exists at a subconscious level: Bush II
Wednesday, September 3, 2014Bad President, Bad, Bad! Recently, I developed two theories about the constant nitpicking complaints and downright obscene insults thrown at this president. The obvious reason is his color. In a country with institutionalized racism, a tan-colored man in the White House is an omen. But the deeper reason that probably exists at a subconscious level: Bush II
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Thursday, July 19, 2018
How Smart Are We, Really? The Dunning-Kruger is even more of a revelation when you understand the entire principle. But what we really need is a little compassion and humility.
Thursday, July 19, 2018How Smart Are We, Really? The Dunning-Kruger is even more of a revelation when you understand the entire principle. But what we really need is a little compassion and humility.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Liberals Unite! (Tee hee) What's happening to our overarching liberal purpose while we argue among ourselves about whose personal needs will be met first. If and when we ever get the power back, we can address them. Not in our current shattered state.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018Liberals Unite! (Tee hee) What's happening to our overarching liberal purpose while we argue among ourselves about whose personal needs will be met first. If and when we ever get the power back, we can address them. Not in our current shattered state.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Power Posing: The Key to Success? Power posing has shown that we can change our internal experience by changing our external physiology. Is this sufficient for success>
Wednesday, June 12, 2013Power Posing: The Key to Success? Power posing has shown that we can change our internal experience by changing our external physiology. Is this sufficient for success>
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Saturday, March 4, 2017
Let's Hear It For Those Kids in Private Schools! Sure school choice is good thing. Especially when you can ignore a bigger problem that causes the reason to choose a different school.
Saturday, March 4, 2017Let's Hear It For Those Kids in Private Schools! Sure school choice is good thing. Especially when you can ignore a bigger problem that causes the reason to choose a different school.
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Saturday, July 6, 2013
Are We Mired In Dead Ideas? We need new ideas to solve new problems. Yet we seem to be mired in dead ones.
Saturday, July 6, 2013Are We Mired In Dead Ideas? We need new ideas to solve new problems. Yet we seem to be mired in dead ones.
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Friday, July 5, 2013
Is Our Political Process Fatally Damaged? In addition to money, two other variables combine to weaken our political process.
Friday, July 5, 2013Is Our Political Process Fatally Damaged? In addition to money, two other variables combine to weaken our political process.
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014
The Only Problem in America is We Don't Have Enough. My hope for 2014 is more. Because in the United States, we don't have enough yet. That's our problem. It's simple.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014The Only Problem in America is We Don't Have Enough. My hope for 2014 is more. Because in the United States, we don't have enough yet. That's our problem. It's simple.
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Friday, August 23, 2013
What, Me Worry? Why do we focus on the ridiculous and ignore the substantive issues we face in the country today?
Friday, August 23, 2013What, Me Worry? Why do we focus on the ridiculous and ignore the substantive issues we face in the country today?
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Friday, June 12, 2015
Rosewater, a Film Full of Parallels At first I was stunned at the ubiquitous display of propaganda all over Tehran; on the side of buildings, signs and bill boards everywhere. But then it occurred to me, there are parallels here too. But in America the propaganda is not about the religion of Islam. It's about Western religion, capitalism.
Friday, June 12, 2015Rosewater, a Film Full of Parallels At first I was stunned at the ubiquitous display of propaganda all over Tehran; on the side of buildings, signs and bill boards everywhere. But then it occurred to me, there are parallels here too. But in America the propaganda is not about the religion of Islam. It's about Western religion, capitalism.
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Jesus Loves Me But He Can't Stand You Are atheists going to heaven or not? The Roman Catholic church can't seem to make up its mind. I vote no!
Wednesday, May 29, 2013Jesus Loves Me But He Can't Stand You Are atheists going to heaven or not? The Roman Catholic church can't seem to make up its mind. I vote no!
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Let Them Eat Cake: The Economic Costs and Causes of our Societal Ills Continuing trends in inequality of the distribution of wealth can be corrected within the system by sharing productivity gains with the producers.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013Let Them Eat Cake: The Economic Costs and Causes of our Societal Ills Continuing trends in inequality of the distribution of wealth can be corrected within the system by sharing productivity gains with the producers.
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Monday, April 22, 2013
GOP: God's Own Party? Is the GOP God's own party? Or is it simply being co-opted by the Christian extremists Dominionists?
Monday, April 22, 2013GOP: God's Own Party? Is the GOP God's own party? Or is it simply being co-opted by the Christian extremists Dominionists?
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Thursday, April 3, 2014
The Death of Our Democracy We're suffering continual erosion of our democracy as the wealthy elite take over the political and governing process.
Thursday, April 3, 2014The Death of Our Democracy We're suffering continual erosion of our democracy as the wealthy elite take over the political and governing process.
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Friday, June 10, 2016
Did Senator Perdue Really Pray for the President's Death? Here we have a perfect storm of inferential leaping and dog whistle politics. Ms. Woodruff's headline leaps to a conclusion that her report doesn't support unless one can hear the dog whistle"or simply concede the old saying, "the large print giveth and the fine print taketh away."
Friday, June 10, 2016Did Senator Perdue Really Pray for the President's Death? Here we have a perfect storm of inferential leaping and dog whistle politics. Ms. Woodruff's headline leaps to a conclusion that her report doesn't support unless one can hear the dog whistle"or simply concede the old saying, "the large print giveth and the fine print taketh away."
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Thursday, August 7, 2014
The Obscene Asymmetry in Gaza There is an obscenity being perpetrated on the Palestinian people as I write this essay. And please don't obscure it with talk of Hamas and its intentions. I'm writing clear-eyed about the inhumanity involved in Gaza.
Thursday, August 7, 2014The Obscene Asymmetry in Gaza There is an obscenity being perpetrated on the Palestinian people as I write this essay. And please don't obscure it with talk of Hamas and its intentions. I'm writing clear-eyed about the inhumanity involved in Gaza.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Republican Moral Model: Are We Good or Evil? Principles are part of the answer to the question: What draws people to one party or the other. A more complete answer must lie at a deeper level; a level that is not apparent upon casual observation. Because it must be powerful enough to have people ignore their own interests and remain loyal. And it must be powerful enough to defy conventional logic.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013Republican Moral Model: Are We Good or Evil? Principles are part of the answer to the question: What draws people to one party or the other. A more complete answer must lie at a deeper level; a level that is not apparent upon casual observation. Because it must be powerful enough to have people ignore their own interests and remain loyal. And it must be powerful enough to defy conventional logic.
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Friday, August 16, 2013
Why Not Share the Benefits of Capitalism More Equitably? As the benefits of capitalism and productivity improvements are funneled off into corporate coffers the economy suffers from lower levels of consumer spending ultimately harming capitalism.
Friday, August 16, 2013Why Not Share the Benefits of Capitalism More Equitably? As the benefits of capitalism and productivity improvements are funneled off into corporate coffers the economy suffers from lower levels of consumer spending ultimately harming capitalism.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014
A New Transubstantiation: Contraception Becomes Abortion if One Believes Deeply Here's a thought experiment for you: Roman Catholics believe in transubstantiation; the communion wafer becomes the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ during the Mass. How many of you Protestants, Jews and Muslims think that because a Roman Catholic believes in transubstantiation deeply, the communion wafer actually becomes the body and blood of Jesus? I thought so.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014A New Transubstantiation: Contraception Becomes Abortion if One Believes Deeply Here's a thought experiment for you: Roman Catholics believe in transubstantiation; the communion wafer becomes the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ during the Mass. How many of you Protestants, Jews and Muslims think that because a Roman Catholic believes in transubstantiation deeply, the communion wafer actually becomes the body and blood of Jesus? I thought so.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Where's Trump's Replacement for Obama Care? The cost of prescription drugs added to the cost of all medical care is making good healthcare a privilege of the wealthy.
Wednesday, September 23, 2020Where's Trump's Replacement for Obama Care? The cost of prescription drugs added to the cost of all medical care is making good healthcare a privilege of the wealthy.
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Saturday, October 1, 2016
Image or Substance? The Voter's Choice. This election is far too important to determine your choice using public image. Get the facts. They're out there. Find them and make your vote a well thought-out choice.
Saturday, October 1, 2016Image or Substance? The Voter's Choice. This election is far too important to determine your choice using public image. Get the facts. They're out there. Find them and make your vote a well thought-out choice.
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Hate Someone? : Fill in the Blanks: All_________ Are____________ What causes us to be so biased? Is there a good way to deal with our prejudices? It only takes avoiding the use of one word.
Saturday, June 15, 2013Hate Someone? : Fill in the Blanks: All_________ Are____________ What causes us to be so biased? Is there a good way to deal with our prejudices? It only takes avoiding the use of one word.
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Monday, August 15, 2016
And We're Surprised??? Are we really surprised at the rise of this man named Trump? Let's look at the culture that gives him nourishment.
Monday, August 15, 2016And We're Surprised??? Are we really surprised at the rise of this man named Trump? Let's look at the culture that gives him nourishment.
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Saturday, January 13, 2018
MAGA: Made America Great Already (by immigrants) America was great already compliments of the working people from here and afar.
Saturday, January 13, 2018MAGA: Made America Great Already (by immigrants) America was great already compliments of the working people from here and afar.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Money is Moral Kryptonite for Bank of America. If you can't measure it you can manage it. But improper use of measurement can cause a complete failure in business.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013Money is Moral Kryptonite for Bank of America. If you can't measure it you can manage it. But improper use of measurement can cause a complete failure in business.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Sicker Than Our Secrets We only need to look as far as the success of Fox News to find a thermometer. Have you ever thought about why a channel independently proven to be falsifying facts and misinforming viewers is the leading cable news organization?
Wednesday, December 17, 2014Sicker Than Our Secrets We only need to look as far as the success of Fox News to find a thermometer. Have you ever thought about why a channel independently proven to be falsifying facts and misinforming viewers is the leading cable news organization?
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Popcorn, M&M's and Ammunition So this unfortunate situation was the toxic combination I've written about before. This time it was on steroids. A categorical thinking, gun toting, retired cop who hates texting in theaters, in Florida, "the" stand your ground state. Add to this, people feel more aggressive when they carry guns and the pop corn seemed like a drone attack to this good guy.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014Popcorn, M&M's and Ammunition So this unfortunate situation was the toxic combination I've written about before. This time it was on steroids. A categorical thinking, gun toting, retired cop who hates texting in theaters, in Florida, "the" stand your ground state. Add to this, people feel more aggressive when they carry guns and the pop corn seemed like a drone attack to this good guy.
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Sunday, March 17, 2013
We are a Nation of True Believers We are a nation of true believers who feel most comfortable affiliated with a group so much so that we'll give up our most important individual freedom - to think of ourselves.
Sunday, March 17, 2013We are a Nation of True Believers We are a nation of true believers who feel most comfortable affiliated with a group so much so that we'll give up our most important individual freedom - to think of ourselves.
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Monday, April 29, 2013
We Suffer Sequester, While CIA Squanders Cash We Don't Have on Fool's Errand We're not doing too well at making democracy work here, why do we think we can make it work in Afghanistan? But to keep dumping money and losing lives is hard to understand given our results so far.
Monday, April 29, 2013We Suffer Sequester, While CIA Squanders Cash We Don't Have on Fool's Errand We're not doing too well at making democracy work here, why do we think we can make it work in Afghanistan? But to keep dumping money and losing lives is hard to understand given our results so far.
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Saturday, February 8, 2014
Real America is Full of Real Conservatives. Creating another reality with people to hate has been going on a long time. Like since the old days in the south where even the lowliest white man, no matter how locked in poverty he was by the system, was made to believe he was still better than that "lazy, ignorant Negro" down the road.
Saturday, February 8, 2014Real America is Full of Real Conservatives. Creating another reality with people to hate has been going on a long time. Like since the old days in the south where even the lowliest white man, no matter how locked in poverty he was by the system, was made to believe he was still better than that "lazy, ignorant Negro" down the road.
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Impeachment Would Solve Lots of Problems. Impeachment fever is raging in the Republican party. Or is it defunding Obamacare? Or shutting the government down? Whatever it is, it has nothing to do with governing.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013Impeachment Would Solve Lots of Problems. Impeachment fever is raging in the Republican party. Or is it defunding Obamacare? Or shutting the government down? Whatever it is, it has nothing to do with governing.
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
Are Christian Principles to be Found in Capitalism? Scalia Thinks So! As with so many other issues, we Americans like to debate the symptoms and not the causes. In the supposedly best capitalist system in the world, why do so many people need charity, whether it be from the church of government? And why has the number been growing for the last three decades? And exactly what Christian virtues are manifested in a form of capitalism that makes this country one the of the worst for income equality
Thursday, September 12, 2013Are Christian Principles to be Found in Capitalism? Scalia Thinks So! As with so many other issues, we Americans like to debate the symptoms and not the causes. In the supposedly best capitalist system in the world, why do so many people need charity, whether it be from the church of government? And why has the number been growing for the last three decades? And exactly what Christian virtues are manifested in a form of capitalism that makes this country one the of the worst for income equality
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Friday, June 3, 2016
Ryan Accepts Trump. Move Along. Nothing to See Here. Please be assured I'm not singling Mr. Ryan out for criticism. He's a politician and a successful one at that. He's just more obvious because of his elevated status. I'm afraid his quick-change expertise is just an example of business as usual in our political system.
Friday, June 3, 2016Ryan Accepts Trump. Move Along. Nothing to See Here. Please be assured I'm not singling Mr. Ryan out for criticism. He's a politician and a successful one at that. He's just more obvious because of his elevated status. I'm afraid his quick-change expertise is just an example of business as usual in our political system.
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Where are the Unions? What was once the gateway to the middle class has become an artifact of a non-existent era: Partly because some unions became rackets and partly because management decided that vast majority of the benefits of healthy companies should go to the owners of the capital.
Thursday, October 3, 2013Where are the Unions? What was once the gateway to the middle class has become an artifact of a non-existent era: Partly because some unions became rackets and partly because management decided that vast majority of the benefits of healthy companies should go to the owners of the capital.
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Friday, June 19, 2015
National Illusion Crumbles In South Carolina Nine black people die at the hands of a young white supremacist. He admitted his motive was to start a race war. And still one half of this nation is twisting itself into contortions to protect the illusion that overt racism wasn't the reason for his actions.
Friday, June 19, 2015National Illusion Crumbles In South Carolina Nine black people die at the hands of a young white supremacist. He admitted his motive was to start a race war. And still one half of this nation is twisting itself into contortions to protect the illusion that overt racism wasn't the reason for his actions.
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Sunday, November 22, 2020
Living in the "Post Truth" Era. The subtlety and nuance in the "real world" allow the space for interpretation and with that comes our differing opinions. Add in political ambitions and a for-profit press, and we have the post-truth era.
Sunday, November 22, 2020Living in the "Post Truth" Era. The subtlety and nuance in the "real world" allow the space for interpretation and with that comes our differing opinions. Add in political ambitions and a for-profit press, and we have the post-truth era.
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Friday, August 3, 2018
Helping or Liberating? When we help others in need, are we above the fray or are we playing a role in the system causing the problem? There's enough to go around. Someone is tipping the balance so it doesn't seem so.
Friday, August 3, 2018Helping or Liberating? When we help others in need, are we above the fray or are we playing a role in the system causing the problem? There's enough to go around. Someone is tipping the balance so it doesn't seem so.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Hate Covers Up the Pain in Our Society As societal pain increases so does the expression of hate.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013Hate Covers Up the Pain in Our Society As societal pain increases so does the expression of hate.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
"That's a load of BS" and Other Forms of Commentary from the Public. Every writer wants feedback. But sometimes the feedback we get is pretty difficult to handle. The piece categorizes the types the author has experienced so far.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013"That's a load of BS" and Other Forms of Commentary from the Public. Every writer wants feedback. But sometimes the feedback we get is pretty difficult to handle. The piece categorizes the types the author has experienced so far.
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Surprise! American Employees are Emotionally Disconnected. How does the health of a society relate to low wages, emotional disconnection, and a shrinking middle class?
Thursday, June 20, 2013Surprise! American Employees are Emotionally Disconnected. How does the health of a society relate to low wages, emotional disconnection, and a shrinking middle class?
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
The Fox News Alternative Reality Makes Any Middle Ground Impossible. The reality show advertised as the O'Reilly interview of President Obama on Super Bowl Sunday was revealing. As usual, O'Reilly was the star. This time he had Mr. Obama as a prop, there to be interrupted for the purposes of proving O'Reilly's brilliance and improving his ratings (and income, of course), as he pandered to his loyal followers.
Thursday, February 6, 2014The Fox News Alternative Reality Makes Any Middle Ground Impossible. The reality show advertised as the O'Reilly interview of President Obama on Super Bowl Sunday was revealing. As usual, O'Reilly was the star. This time he had Mr. Obama as a prop, there to be interrupted for the purposes of proving O'Reilly's brilliance and improving his ratings (and income, of course), as he pandered to his loyal followers.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Concerning Approval Ratings, Who's worse, Democrats or Republicans? What's really behind their facade? Money, that's what hides the real people we vote for or against.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013Concerning Approval Ratings, Who's worse, Democrats or Republicans? What's really behind their facade? Money, that's what hides the real people we vote for or against.
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Monday, January 12, 2015
"Je suis Charlie" Me Too! To add fuel to the roaring fire, certain news organizations and individuals have rushed to condemn all Muslims for the acts of an infinitesimal, disenfranchised minority. Some claiming that the Muslim community doesn't do enough to protest these horrible actions being committed in the name of Islam. Wrong again. Tens of thousands of true Muslims have protested all over the world, France included.
Monday, January 12, 2015"Je suis Charlie" Me Too! To add fuel to the roaring fire, certain news organizations and individuals have rushed to condemn all Muslims for the acts of an infinitesimal, disenfranchised minority. Some claiming that the Muslim community doesn't do enough to protest these horrible actions being committed in the name of Islam. Wrong again. Tens of thousands of true Muslims have protested all over the world, France included.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The Great American Circus Doesn't Leave D.C. With the advent of representatives chosen by special interest groups and populist movements, D.C. is beginning to look like the Great American Circus.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013The Great American Circus Doesn't Leave D.C. With the advent of representatives chosen by special interest groups and populist movements, D.C. is beginning to look like the Great American Circus.
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Monday, September 29, 2014
Bombing the Mideast for Fun and Profit The Bush administration sold us the need for the invasion that created the instability and now we are being sold the fable that the problems in the Mideast are caused by religious extremism. If we think critically about this we will see that, although religious extremism is the apparent reason, it is a symptom of much deeper issues.
Monday, September 29, 2014Bombing the Mideast for Fun and Profit The Bush administration sold us the need for the invasion that created the instability and now we are being sold the fable that the problems in the Mideast are caused by religious extremism. If we think critically about this we will see that, although religious extremism is the apparent reason, it is a symptom of much deeper issues.
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Monday, June 10, 2013
Unemployment Ticked Up and Stayed the Same We're on our way to an entrenched socio-economic caste system in America.
Monday, June 10, 2013Unemployment Ticked Up and Stayed the Same We're on our way to an entrenched socio-economic caste system in America.
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand and the Budget Paul Ryan no longer worships Ayn Rand. he's now an aficionado of St. Thomas. except when he proposing budgets.
Thursday, March 14, 2013Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand and the Budget Paul Ryan no longer worships Ayn Rand. he's now an aficionado of St. Thomas. except when he proposing budgets.
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Tuesday, January 5, 2021
The Effects of Unopposed Power Have Been the Deaths of Millions Autocrats and dictators have been causing the death of millions seemingly forever. Without opposing forces, tyranny begins and people die.
Tuesday, January 5, 2021The Effects of Unopposed Power Have Been the Deaths of Millions Autocrats and dictators have been causing the death of millions seemingly forever. Without opposing forces, tyranny begins and people die.
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Thursday, September 11, 2014
Bombing ISIS or Not. It shouldn't be difficult to understand the emergence of this wave of religious fundamentalism around the world. When revered models have remained undisturbed for long periods and are suddenly disturbed, any kind of aberrant behavior is to be expected. A return to the most fundamental beliefs of that model seems like the most grounded place from which to defend against the disturbance.
Thursday, September 11, 2014Bombing ISIS or Not. It shouldn't be difficult to understand the emergence of this wave of religious fundamentalism around the world. When revered models have remained undisturbed for long periods and are suddenly disturbed, any kind of aberrant behavior is to be expected. A return to the most fundamental beliefs of that model seems like the most grounded place from which to defend against the disturbance.
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Monday, June 13, 2016
Fifty Dead in Orlando: The Latest Fatalities in World War III We fail to see that we've lost the objective while we fight about whether "guns kill people" or "people kill people." Whether drones create more terrorists when we kill their leaders. We fail the see that we all victims of this war. Even the perpetrators who pull the triggers or fly the drones are victims.
Monday, June 13, 2016Fifty Dead in Orlando: The Latest Fatalities in World War III We fail to see that we've lost the objective while we fight about whether "guns kill people" or "people kill people." Whether drones create more terrorists when we kill their leaders. We fail the see that we all victims of this war. Even the perpetrators who pull the triggers or fly the drones are victims.
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Saturday, July 13, 2013
Are We Exporting Democracy Because Our Own Works So Well? Is our commitment to the universal application of electoral democracy being shown to be a major mistake by China's economic success?
Saturday, July 13, 2013Are We Exporting Democracy Because Our Own Works So Well? Is our commitment to the universal application of electoral democracy being shown to be a major mistake by China's economic success?
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Wednesday, December 2, 2020
The Saga Continues Some Americans still believe the election isn't over and Trump will prevail. No, these are not stupid people. They are people who succumb to a thinking deficiency that allows them to accept certain logical fallacies inherent in our language.
Wednesday, December 2, 2020The Saga Continues Some Americans still believe the election isn't over and Trump will prevail. No, these are not stupid people. They are people who succumb to a thinking deficiency that allows them to accept certain logical fallacies inherent in our language.
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
9/11: A Reminder and Opportunity to Say No to War As a species we just might be beginning to see what has been long taught by the great prophets: peace won't be won by war and violence.
Wednesday, September 11, 20139/11: A Reminder and Opportunity to Say No to War As a species we just might be beginning to see what has been long taught by the great prophets: peace won't be won by war and violence.
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Violence is Best Addressed with Violence: The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. Freaky characters dominate our political scene. The abnormal is beginning to seem normal, when the best way to deal with violence is more violence.
Thursday, April 18, 2013Violence is Best Addressed with Violence: The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. Freaky characters dominate our political scene. The abnormal is beginning to seem normal, when the best way to deal with violence is more violence.
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Monday, June 24, 2013
America: Have We Lost Our Way? Are we as bad as they say we are? No longer the shining city on the hill? What happened? It's more complex than our critics think.
Monday, June 24, 2013America: Have We Lost Our Way? Are we as bad as they say we are? No longer the shining city on the hill? What happened? It's more complex than our critics think.
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Monday, April 1, 2013
What Else is a $6 Billion Presidential Election Costing Us? Six billion dollars was spent on a campaign that didn't change much. How much damage was done to the planet to get that $6 billion?
Monday, April 1, 2013What Else is a $6 Billion Presidential Election Costing Us? Six billion dollars was spent on a campaign that didn't change much. How much damage was done to the planet to get that $6 billion?
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Friday, March 22, 2013
The Sound and Fury of Americaan Politics Is politics the art of the possible or sound and fury signifying nothing?
Friday, March 22, 2013The Sound and Fury of Americaan Politics Is politics the art of the possible or sound and fury signifying nothing?
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
"It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times." What, in capitalism, is causing the wealth distribution gap to worsen and accelerate? How can we sustain an economy when 88 percent of income growth goes to corporate profits and 1 percent to wages?
Tuesday, May 7, 2013"It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times." What, in capitalism, is causing the wealth distribution gap to worsen and accelerate? How can we sustain an economy when 88 percent of income growth goes to corporate profits and 1 percent to wages?
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
If We're Adjusted to a Crazy World, Are we Crazy? When it comes to stupid ideas, there is no recession. Our crazy world is a prolific generator of stupid ideas.
Thursday, May 2, 2013If We're Adjusted to a Crazy World, Are we Crazy? When it comes to stupid ideas, there is no recession. Our crazy world is a prolific generator of stupid ideas.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Politics Be Damned! Unity Demands More. This is not about politics. We will never agree there. This is about our moral health. This is about the failure of the American promise.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016Politics Be Damned! Unity Demands More. This is not about politics. We will never agree there. This is about our moral health. This is about the failure of the American promise.
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
CPAC: an Orgy of Denial The speakers are CPAC are symptomatic of denial. They emphasize a failing ideology.
Saturday, March 16, 2013CPAC: an Orgy of Denial The speakers are CPAC are symptomatic of denial. They emphasize a failing ideology.
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Monday, August 5, 2013
Death to the Soaring American Spirit We are sacrificing ourselves on the altar of enhanced shareholder value while our politicians serve their own interests. What is the cause and is there a solution?
Monday, August 5, 2013Death to the Soaring American Spirit We are sacrificing ourselves on the altar of enhanced shareholder value while our politicians serve their own interests. What is the cause and is there a solution?
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Friday, August 30, 2013
Racism and God for Profit Profit is our god. Racism is an offering on its altar.
Friday, August 30, 2013Racism and God for Profit Profit is our god. Racism is an offering on its altar.
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
Is This President that Bad? Really? As an individual non-story being disguised as a news item this seems harmless enough. But when added together with a constant stream, its accumulative effect results in a distorted notion of this president's performance.
Thursday, November 21, 2013Is This President that Bad? Really? As an individual non-story being disguised as a news item this seems harmless enough. But when added together with a constant stream, its accumulative effect results in a distorted notion of this president's performance.
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Thursday, September 26, 2013
SAT Scores Under 50 Percent - Again Is there a causal relationship between cuts in social welfare and education funding and poor performance on the SAT or is it just a statistical fluke?
Thursday, September 26, 2013SAT Scores Under 50 Percent - Again Is there a causal relationship between cuts in social welfare and education funding and poor performance on the SAT or is it just a statistical fluke?
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Monday, August 18, 2014
Obfuscate = Re-elect = Going Nowhere. But We're Making Good Time. While our politicians' obfuscate, the media aids and abets under the guise of neutrality. The effect is to obscure the facts with pettifogging flotsam and jetsam.
Monday, August 18, 2014Obfuscate = Re-elect = Going Nowhere. But We're Making Good Time. While our politicians' obfuscate, the media aids and abets under the guise of neutrality. The effect is to obscure the facts with pettifogging flotsam and jetsam.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Canary in a Mine Shaft: Boston? Are acts of violence like Boston signals of an illness in society?
Wednesday, April 17, 2013Canary in a Mine Shaft: Boston? Are acts of violence like Boston signals of an illness in society?
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Why Do Our Problems Persist and Multiply? In our economy of problems, we'll never have a recession.
Monday, May 13, 2013Why Do Our Problems Persist and Multiply? In our economy of problems, we'll never have a recession.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Not More of the Same on Ferguson, MO While Americans line up on either side of the events in Ferguson we are missing an important tool for reconciliation. Our racial tensions arise from very fundamental differences in our cultural contexts and the meanings that shape who we are as individuals. The issue is not color of skin. That's the marker. The issues are shaped by historical narratives that create the moods that predispose behaviors on both sides.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014Not More of the Same on Ferguson, MO While Americans line up on either side of the events in Ferguson we are missing an important tool for reconciliation. Our racial tensions arise from very fundamental differences in our cultural contexts and the meanings that shape who we are as individuals. The issue is not color of skin. That's the marker. The issues are shaped by historical narratives that create the moods that predispose behaviors on both sides.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021
The Country's Dilemma is Remarkably Familiar. We are on the pivotal point of a complete meltdown or solidification of our nation's governmental power to govern by the standards of our constitution.
Wednesday, January 13, 2021The Country's Dilemma is Remarkably Familiar. We are on the pivotal point of a complete meltdown or solidification of our nation's governmental power to govern by the standards of our constitution.
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Monday, November 25, 2013
Who are You Thankful to This Year? It's that time of the year again. Let's murder a turkey and give thanks. But to whom? To whom do you owe your gratitude?
Monday, November 25, 2013Who are You Thankful to This Year? It's that time of the year again. Let's murder a turkey and give thanks. But to whom? To whom do you owe your gratitude?
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Do Nations Ever Feel Guilt? Should we feel guilty about the elimination of whole native populations, slavery, confiscation of lands? Should the spoils always go to the victors? What about their descendants?
Saturday, April 27, 2013Do Nations Ever Feel Guilt? Should we feel guilty about the elimination of whole native populations, slavery, confiscation of lands? Should the spoils always go to the victors? What about their descendants?
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Friday, April 19, 2013
The Failure of Universal Background Checks is a Finger in the Eye. The failure of universal background checks is not the issue. It has more to do with the failure of a system that allows 500 thousand voters to out vote 38 million.
Friday, April 19, 2013The Failure of Universal Background Checks is a Finger in the Eye. The failure of universal background checks is not the issue. It has more to do with the failure of a system that allows 500 thousand voters to out vote 38 million.
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Saturday, March 9, 2013
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Clearing up the lies about trickle-down economics, taxes, equal opportunity, distribution of wealth, and welfare cheats.
Saturday, March 9, 2013Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Clearing up the lies about trickle-down economics, taxes, equal opportunity, distribution of wealth, and welfare cheats.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Religion, Certainty and Obama's Visit to the Mideast. As Obama visits the Mideast I am reminded how certainty stops cooperation and peace.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013Religion, Certainty and Obama's Visit to the Mideast. As Obama visits the Mideast I am reminded how certainty stops cooperation and peace.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
It's their Ideology, Stupid. Or it's their Stupid ideology. Take Your Pick. Why I'm anti-Republican for personal reasons.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013It's their Ideology, Stupid. Or it's their Stupid ideology. Take Your Pick. Why I'm anti-Republican for personal reasons.
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Drill Baby, Oops! Frack Baby Frack! Fracking is a result of our insatiable demand for fossil fuels. Share the blame.
Thursday, March 21, 2013Drill Baby, Oops! Frack Baby Frack! Fracking is a result of our insatiable demand for fossil fuels. Share the blame.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Is Duty of Care Dead? Wikipedia defines Duty of Care thusly, "In tort law, a duty of care is a legal obligation which is imposed on an individual requiring adherence to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could foreseeably harm others."
Wednesday, May 7, 2014Is Duty of Care Dead? Wikipedia defines Duty of Care thusly, "In tort law, a duty of care is a legal obligation which is imposed on an individual requiring adherence to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could foreseeably harm others."
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Thursday, December 15, 2016
Is the Appeal of Fake News an Ominous Sign? Much of our inability to discern the truth from a lie is the absence of grounding or a baseline from which to judge. The public domain has been creating this void for years; this void being a "post fact" society.
Thursday, December 15, 2016Is the Appeal of Fake News an Ominous Sign? Much of our inability to discern the truth from a lie is the absence of grounding or a baseline from which to judge. The public domain has been creating this void for years; this void being a "post fact" society.
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Fundamentalist Christians 1: Everyone Else 0 You can't argue with a fundamentalist Christian unless you accept the in-errancy of the Bible.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013Fundamentalist Christians 1: Everyone Else 0 You can't argue with a fundamentalist Christian unless you accept the in-errancy of the Bible.
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
Climbing the Stairway to a Better World: Be the Change. How do we move from worshiping the religious stories in our lives to understanding and practicing the principles contained in them?
Saturday, April 6, 2013Climbing the Stairway to a Better World: Be the Change. How do we move from worshiping the religious stories in our lives to understanding and practicing the principles contained in them?
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Who Needs an Atheist Chaplain? Taxpaying Atheists, That's Who. "There are no atheists in foxholes." Another mindless assumption coming for the extreme religious right of the Republican party.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013Who Needs an Atheist Chaplain? Taxpaying Atheists, That's Who. "There are no atheists in foxholes." Another mindless assumption coming for the extreme religious right of the Republican party.
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
Offering Assessments as Assertions Creates Confusion. Why! Most of us take language for granted. We don't realize the power it has to not only describe but to create. In other words, it is not only descriptive, it is also generative, in that it generates reality.
Thursday, January 23, 2014Offering Assessments as Assertions Creates Confusion. Why! Most of us take language for granted. We don't realize the power it has to not only describe but to create. In other words, it is not only descriptive, it is also generative, in that it generates reality.
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Thursday, August 8, 2013
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Burlesque Politics is burlesque and we get to pay for it with our hard earned cash.
Thursday, August 8, 2013How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Burlesque Politics is burlesque and we get to pay for it with our hard earned cash.
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Friday, April 5, 2013
The Map is Not the Territory: Good Thing, Because the Territory is Pretty Dismal. We are more attracted to simulations than reality. Maybe it's better this way because reality is looking pretty dismal.
Friday, April 5, 2013The Map is Not the Territory: Good Thing, Because the Territory is Pretty Dismal. We are more attracted to simulations than reality. Maybe it's better this way because reality is looking pretty dismal.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Obama's Second Term Is Underway And Western Civilization Has Not Collapsed Does the right wing still live in its reality bubble even though its horrendous projections aren't coming to pass? Is their evidence weakening or is my question premature?
Wednesday, March 13, 2013Obama's Second Term Is Underway And Western Civilization Has Not Collapsed Does the right wing still live in its reality bubble even though its horrendous projections aren't coming to pass? Is their evidence weakening or is my question premature?
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
The Immorality of the Shutdown What do the government shutdown and moral choices have in common? Can it be justified by party line politics?
Wednesday, October 2, 2013The Immorality of the Shutdown What do the government shutdown and moral choices have in common? Can it be justified by party line politics?
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