A reader notes about the meme here: Merry Christmas brings an awkward silence when I say it. Oh well, too bad. The holiday IS Christmas. Yes, the holiday is Christmas, except for the dozens of other religions that celebrate holidays …
Some of Us Are Adamant that the Winter Holiday Season Is About Christmas Read More »
Most adherents to the world’s religions believe that human beings are, in essence, souls that go on to some form of afterlife when they die. Yet, as far as I’m aware, there are no such provisions made for our fellow …
In Terms of Spirituality We Separate Ourselves from Other Animals, But Why? Read More »
Living in peace is a skill that most of the modern world has not developed to any significant degree. Yet that doesn’t mean it can’t happen.
Question: Take a peek at the meme at left, and examine it for poor logic. A cow eating grass isn’t bad for the planet. The beef industry that is driving unprecedented levels of deforestation–in particular, the destruction of the Amazon …
If I were to name the ten most intelligent and morally wholesome people who ever lived, Vonnegut would be on the list. At left is my reasoning.
Property taxes are how we fund public schools. Unless we want illiterate children, we need property taxes. Of course, we’re headed in the direction of mass ignorance anyway. The popular conception among the MAGA right is that education cranks out …
At left we have a handful of irrelevant facts. Knowing all this, Trump appointed Gaetz to be the U.S. attorney general, to the sheer delight of the MAGA right. The only relevant fact here is that Gaetz comes from an …
From the Daily Montanan: The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a district court ruling in the nation’s first constitutional climate change trial, affirming that the youth plaintiffs have a “fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment” while …
Good News from Montana in Climate Change Mitigation …. Or Is It? Read More »
In my own less-than-sophisticated words I would say that program music is music that is about something. From Wikipedia: Program music or programmatic music is a type of instrumental art music that attempts to musically render an extramusical narrative. The narrative itself might be offered to …
Music that Transports Us Can Be “About” Something Read More »
Well, this really is what progressives are all about: more inclusion and better education. But are smarter and kinder people really destroying our country?
