Quite a few of the people I grew up with in the suburbs of Philadelphia have turned out to be Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists; the meme here came from one of them. I understand that there are distortions in …
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Trump and Women’s Rights
Here’s another reminder of how remarkable it is that Trump has any support from women at all. It’s hard to imagine any self-respecting woman getting behind a candidate who has done so much damage to an entire gender.
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Putting Christianity into Some Manner of Perspective
C.S. Lewis is remembered as a gifted writer who touched the hearts of young and old alike. To those of you who didn’t have the pleasure and honor of reading “The Chronicles of Narnia” with your child, only to have …
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Scientific Literacy
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 …
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 …
