Treating Human Beings with Dignity
Few Americans respect the memory of Che Guevara, and the further they are to the right, the more that’s true. Still, I believe (or at least hope) that most of us would agree with what he said at left.
It’s akin to what theologist Fulton Sheen said, circa 1925, “You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”
Sadly, our society is headed in the precise opposite direction.
Workers in companies owned by billionaires are being replaced by AI and other forms of IT/automation.
The various parts of the U.S. federal government that formerly provided help for those who need it are being dismantled, and the proceeds distributed to wealthy Republican donors.
Environmental deregulation is causing toxic pollution and climate change, the effects of which disproportionately are hitting the poor.
Would be great to see all this reverse course.
What Malaysia is doing with respect to renewable energy (see left) is a reminder of two things:
At left is a piece by the late Gahan Wilson, whose work, which he produced for more than half a century, could be called morbidly funny.
I get that this fellow is a conservative and has all manner of charming little platitudes to articulate his political point of view.
When you or I read what Joe Biden said last night (see left), we tend to think: “Of course. Our democracy is indeed in danger, and we need to fight to keep it from being usurped by Trump and his supporters.”
When I came across the meme here, I thought it was a joke. Does somebody seriously believe that there are “anti-ICE rioters” that they’re doing damage to our cities?
Most Americans have their own take on the geography of the South. For me, it’s not completely geographic; it’s partly sociographic. For example, Northern Virginia is about as cosmopolitan a place as you’re going to find in the United States, but it’s at the same latitude as West Virginia, which ranks 45th out of the 50 states in education.
I know lots of wealthy people from prep school, college, and several decades of business consulting, all of whom seemed like decent folks at the time. Yet now, I sometimes wonder how many are Trump donors. It’s upsetting just to think about it.
The Permian Basin is a vast sedimentary basin in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico that is the largest oil and gas-producing region in the United States.
A reader notes: These are war crimes meant to test the amount of public outrage they can get away with.
