Trump and his team have vowed to attack journalists who will not fall in line with incoming president’s messaging. Even with the enormous amount of power that Trump will have, however, it’s going to be immensely difficult for him to …
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A corollary to this quote from 20th Century author and poet Charles Bukowski is: “It shouldn’t have to have happen to you for it to matter to you.” FWIW, this is just another way of looking at the term “woke.” …
When MLK said this in the 1960s, he was probably referring to war, specifically nuclear war. In any case, it was a time when there was very little awareness that humankind was on course to ruin our planet’s environment and …
What happens when you combine British comedy with a disbelief in the supreme being? You get Ricky Gervais, who, as suggested at left, has a biting sense of humor.
Sadly, there is no mechanism by which this civilization can rethink the way it apportions wealth and power. As suggested at left, this is the reason for the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, not to mention the deterioration of …
I recall asking a docent at the Getty Villa Museum that houses antiquities how it was possible that the people of ancient Greece both developed mathematics, philosophy, democracy , etc. and believed that the god Mercury pulled the sun across …
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Here’s another way of defining “woke,” i.e., feeling the pain of others.
I don’t know anyone dumb enough to believe he has one.
FWIW, I’m still predicting that Trump is going to face legal consequences for trying to overthrow the U.S. government via a violent insurrection.
To answer the reader’s question at left: People have been talking about this since the dawn of the spoken word. The usual argument is that God gave us free will, which means that it’s up to us to choose one …
