Our culture is deeply rooted in guns and violence. And, as a nation taken as a whole, we seem to have very little capacity to pull ourselves out. Tomorrow, next year, and a decade from now, it appears that we’ll …
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Richmond,Virginia–A Sophisticated and Enlightened Spot
My wife and I recently returned home after escorting my 96-year-old mother from a senior living facility in Hawaii to one we’re sure she’ll like far better in Richmond, VA, where she’ll be surrounded by numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Richmond …
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U.S. Forest Service Is Onboard with Climate Science
I just met a hydrology engineer who works for the U.S. Forest Service, which is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture; it administers the nation’s 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, managing 193 million acres of land. …
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Wokeness and Systemic Racism
A friend from college who resents “woke” culture sent the meme here. I’m wondering what, in his mind, is the difference between “racism” and “people of color are oppressed.”
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Why Is the Trump Campaign Struggling To Raise Cash?
There may be no proven answers to this question, but there are certainly some obvious candidates. Let’s start here: he’s going to lose, and thus will have no power to return favors for rich donors. This stands in stark contrast …
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Nikki Haley’s Presidential Bid
Former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley (Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley) will announce her candidacy for U.S. president on Wednesday. Not much to see here, folks. She’s a garden-variety conservative, though she doesn’t sport Donald Trump’s sociopathic tendencies. …
The Future of Religion
I believe that religion will come to play an ever-diminishing role in human civilization. Of course, there is no reason to expect a straight decline, and there are phenomena in the United States right now, e.g., QAnon and the evangelicals, …
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Actually, We ADORE Florida
Love the meme here. Keep in mind, though, that the American right-wing has a humungous appetite for Ron DeSantis, a total ban on abortion, don’t say gay, removing black history from schools and colleges, forbidding cities from putting COVID restrictions …
Do We Have a Counterculture?
To a question currently circulating on social media: What item from the 1970s should be brought back? an old friend answered: a counterculture. I found that quite thought-provoking. Don’t we have a counterculture today? It’s possible that we have one, …
The Value of Honest Debate
What Pete Seeger said here was undoubtedly true during his day, i.e., the last quarter of the 20th Century, when conservatives had defensible values. As a progressive, I didn’t agree with those values, but I enjoyed worthwhile discussions with intelligent …
