The meme here caught me by surprise, because my kids had different aspirations. One wanted to pick fruits and vegetables 12 hours a day, and the other had his heart set on washing and/or bussing dirty dishes in a restaurant.
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Universal Healthcare
I had a conversation with a senior hospital administrator the other day, and the subject of universal healthcare came up. I mentioned that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn’t offer this to its …
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Trump Running from the Law
As former Labor Secretary Robert Reich puts it, “Remember, Trump is not running for president as much as he’s running from the law.” It;s impossible to list all the terrible consequences of a second term for Donald Trump, but one …
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Trump Is Ailing
As suggested by the highway billboard here, Trump is not at all well, and that’s true across several different dimensions. For one, he babbles incoherently; we can see his diminished capacity to hold a thought. Perhaps worse, however, is that …
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Money Talks — and LOUDLY
It seems that not a single day passes in which the United States doesn’t find a new and disgusting way to embarrass itself. Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, whose net worth is north of $200 billion, has shown our country, …
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Want Never Again to Hear Trump’s Name?
If so, you’re not alone, but I personally don’t share that feeling; I look forward to staying abreast of the criminal proceedings against him. If this country is to re-establish itself as essentially honest and orderly, Trump must be held …
Trump and Giuliani: A Weird Tale
It’s unlikely that we will ever completely unravel the strange story of Trump and Giuliani, in particular, how the former president appears to have grabbed “America’s mayor” by the neck a few years back and forced him to destroy himself …
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A Sad Moment in U.S. History
I know the majority of Americans share the viewpoint of the author of the meme here. My father was a B-17 pilot in WWII, who, after 29 successful missions bombing oil refineries in Germany, was shot down, and, with his …
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Primatologist Jane Goodall Asks a Powerful Question
I would say the answer is a combination of greed and tribalism. We evolved living in groups, distrusting/hating people from outside our group who do not look like us, worship like us, etc. At the same time, the socio-economic paradigm …
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U.S. Politics Is on the Move, and Not in a Good Way
At left we see how far American politics has shifted–from something that actually made sense just a decade ago, to something that is now completely insane.
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