Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting a woman from Ireland who had come here for a wedding. She commented that the type of news that Americans receive is far more disturbing than those in her home country. I offered …
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Is There Value in an Educated Populace?
This theme, that education is indoctrination and is actually harmful to our personhood, is extremely popular now, but largely among our nation’s uneducated people. This could be called “sour grapes,” but some (uneducated) people won’t know what this means. We’re …
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Life in the United States Is Becoming More Outrageous by the Day
Ten years ago, if you had surveyed Americans as to the viability of selling off public lands to for-profit corporations, people would have laughed in your face. “That’s an outrageously stupid idea, as it strikes a blow to the core …
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Pumped Hydro Soon to Go Into Its Second Century
These people claim: An American startup just unlocked hydropower from dry land — with no rivers or dams. In a radical rethinking of water-based energy, an American startup has developed a closed-loop hydropower system that works without a natural river …
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How Is It Possible that More People Haven’t Died in the Last 30 Days?
The MAGA folks are thrilled that people living here with brown skin are terrified about what’s happening under Trump. But how sustainable is this? How long will it take until fatal gunshot wounds between the hunters and the hunted become …
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A Cautionary Tale about Money
The story at left is a strange one, though worth telling for a good reason: We all should make sure that money plays its proper role in our lives. One part of this tale rings particularly true: avoid displays of …
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A Man of Paradoxes
I would describe what Rousseau said about himself here as “gutsy.” Most of us don’t want paradoxes in our mental lives; such “cognitive dissonance” as it is called is an uncomfortable phenomenon.
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Can Love and Truth Defeat Evil?
If Dickens’ hope as expressed here is going to come to fruition, it will be because decent people actively made it happen. When I was a little boy my grandfather told me, “Try to leave this world in better condition …
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Trump Supporters Don’t Care that He’s a Pathological Liar
Trump’s following of amoral rich people and uneducated whites seems to be remaining in place, because neither group actually cares too much about the veracity of what comes out of his mouth. The former group is getting tax breaks, and …
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Canada Retaliates, Hitting Americans Hard
Donna Smedley writes: Remember when Canada and the U.S. were best friends? Hockey jokes, Niagara Falls road trips, and snowbirds flooding Florida condo boards with drunk westerners getting arrested in VEGAS? Yeah. That relationship’s gone. Welcome to Canada’s unofficial, but …
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