It’s easy for us to forget that we are all participants in a society that is constantly morphing, for better or for worse. As individuals, we create the civilization in which we and our desendants will live. Take a long …
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There Is Value in Traditional Education, But Not Everyone Sees It That Way
It’s interesting how many of the world’s great minds regard traditional education as “mental programming” or “forced conformity.” Could you or I have come to the knowledge we now have by teaching ourselves to read, and then going through books …
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Jefferson on Aristocracy
Happy 278th birthday to Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence. As part of his role as a Founding Father, Jefferson noted: “There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents… …
More on Political Correctness
In response to this discussion of political correctness, blogger/novelist Steve Vachss writes: Hi Craig, You make excellent points. There are, however, a few different kinds of PC language. Some are insulting putdowns simply intended to intimidate someone who has erred …
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Political Correctness and Cancel-Culture
An old friend and business associate, Steve Vachss, is now a blogger and novelist. His current piece on political correctness and cancel-culture includes: Professional surveys indicate that 60 to 80 percent of Americans reject PC language or cancel-culture. Most people …
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Policing in America
What Jon Stewart is saying here is absolutely true, which is why it’s both stupid and insulting when the Blue Lives Matter people say that progressives hate cops. No, we don’t. We simply want them to stop murdering unarmed black …
How Valid Is Your Ideology?
I guess I’d never looked at it like what’s shown in the meme here. One way to assess an ideology is to quantify how likely you and others are to die from it. On average, the U.S. suffers a mass …
The Trump Era Isn’t Going Away
The New Yorker’s Amy Davidson Sorkin writes, “It’s tempting to see the Gaetz affair as the last shudder of the era of Donald Trump, but the political culture that the two men represent won’t easily be swept away.” That’s for …
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“We” Haven’t Lost Sight of Environmental Responsibility
Depends on what is meant by “we.” Most people are completely aware that what we’re doing to our environment is creating huge damage to us as individuals. Corporate greed, on the other hand, which is completely out of control, is …
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Pence Surreptitiously Adds Leader of Hate Group to His Organization’s Advisory Board
Is there anything attractive about Pence as a presidential candidate? He has the charisma of a five-pound bag of fertilizer, and his views on things like gay rights are from the early/mid-20th Century, when homosexuality was punished by imprisonment or …
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