On social media we see lots of ideas like the one expressed at left. I reject most of them on the grounds that, for everything we add to high school curricula, we need to take something away, because there are …
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Aldous Huxley on the Costs of Ignoring Reality
It would be interesting to know if Aldous Huxley was referring to anything specific in mind when he wrote these words about a century ago. At this point, they most certainly pertain to the state of environmental collapse that surrounds …
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From RFK — Sr.
From Robert F. Kennedy: Few will have the opportunity to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is …
On Gender
Good for Rebecca Helm, who created the meme here. Below is a bit about the SRY gene that she mentions. It’s just a few lines long, but it’s sufficient to explain why homophobia is really for true morons. It makes …
America’s “Cult of Ignorance”
We really do have a weird phenomenon at work here in the United States. America has entire “news” channels that operate solely to deliver misinformation to people who are desperate to confirm certain of their beliefs as true.
The U.S. System of Checks and Balances
To the reader who sent me the words at left: I appreciate your thinking of me but you’re incorrect in what you write here. There is nothing in the Constitution and its checks and balances that is even remotely based …
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A Sad Confession
I hate to sound like a buzzkill, but I have a certain resentment of American society, and that resentment renews itself every time the National Football League has its first games of the late summer, and the sports networks welcome …
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Changes at the Federal Emergency Management Agency?
I just met a senior consultant to FEMA, which gave me the opportunity to gain perspective on Trump’s attempt to move the agency from the federal government and into the states. He explained that there are three reasons why this …
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High-Profile Republican Jumps Ship
From “Occupy Democrats”: Georgia’s former Republican Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan enrages MAGA world by switching parties to become a Democrat in a stunning rebuke of Trump’s party. “There’s no date on a calendar or line in the sand that points …
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“Even My Dog Hates Trump”
I found the meme here funny, though, FWIW, I don’t provoke disputes with Trump supporters. While I doubt I’d be injured or killed in a confrontation, it’s: A waste of time, and A reminder of the fact that I live …
