Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a pointed observation here, but I wonder how true it is. I grant that some of us need to be scientifically literate. Without that, our civilization could not keep up with things like vaccines against …
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Trump: “Immigrants Are Poisoning the Blood of the Country”
This from former U.S. labor secretary Robert Reich. My perspective: the leader of the MAGA right has gone too far in his battle to regain the presidency in a desperate attempt to stay out of prison. The vast majority of …
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Most People Are “Other People”
I agree with what Oscar Wilde said here, and I freely admit that it fully applies to me. We have values that we derive largely from what we learn from other people. For my entire adult life, I’ve chosen to …
Society’s Loss of Its Capacity to Think
What mid-20th Century screenwriter/TV producer Rod Serling, famed for “The Twilight Zone,” said 50 years ago seems to have come true. There really is no other explanation for Trumpism, a set of beliefs so lowly and base that it’s really …
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Eco-Unfriendly Food Shopping
The graphic here shows why we do best to shop at grocery stores that source their produce locally, or at least as close to home as possible. Even Trader Joes falls down here, to some degree. They explain that every …
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Prosecuting Crime at the Top of the Food Chain
Here, Marla Vous is pointing to our two-tiered system of justice, in which people at the top can do essentially anything they want. As the poem below suggests, this has been a part of Western jurisprudence for quite a while. …
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Big Oil and Climate Disinformation
As previously mentioned, FAIR is a national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation. It’s best known for its weekly radio program “Counterspin,” syndicated across 160 stations. This week’s broadcast, “Richard Wiles & Matthew Cunningham-Cook on …
U.S. Engaged in Epic Battle Against Higher Education
Social media is littered with memes like this one, each trying to convince us, that a college education is unnecessary, or more commonly, simply a bad thing. Now, if you’re today’s Christian-oriented, ultra-right-wing Republican party, it’s easy to guess the …
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Political Strategist James Carville on the 2024 Election
Not to split hairs, but the 2024 election is not an opportunity to end Trumpism for good, if by the term you mean the hate and ignorance of the many tens of millions of MAGA Americans who carry this terrible …
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Character and Fate
It would be a better world if what Heraclitus said were true, but it certainly appears that good people can suffer terrible fates and vice versa. This brings to mind the ultimate destiny of Donald Trump, certainly among the worst …
