Teaching Peace
This pic features a sticker on the rear window of a neighbor’s car.
A great deal is being said about the chasm that grows even larger between the teachings of Christ and the workings of American society in the 21st Century, one that features people dying of treatable diseases, children in cages, 22 million kids going hungry, and a last-minute push for as many federal executions as possible, preferably via hanging, the electric chair, the gas chamber and firing squad.
I don’t think Jesus would be too impressed.
History may have featured worse people overall: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Vlad the Impaler, Ivan the Terrible, Torquemada, and the rest. But we’ve never seen, nor are we likely ever to see, a more vulgar, tawdry pig in a position of such power.
It’s clear that the folks at the top of the food chain in the United States will not give the majority of Americans what they want, i.e., a similar socioeconomic system to that found in Europe. At this point, this country is no closer to Medicare for all than it is to colonizing Mars. 
A few years ago, the U.S. congress was considering a carbon cap and trade proposal that would mitigate climate change, but it was fiercely opposed by American farmers. Led by a lobby that had told them that they would face higher prices for commodities like fertilizer, they stormed Washington with hats that read “Don’t Cap Our Future.” Accordingly, the measure failed. 
Someday soon, coal-fired power plants will have completely disappeared, at least here in the U.S. That’s good, but while this transition is taking place, what’s being done to ensure that the soon-to-be defunct companies that operate the mines take responsibility for cleaning up the mess they left behind?
We’ve all seen the claim that Trump is going to run for president again in 2024. Though one should never say never, here are a few questions we must ask ourselves:
Tasmania, Australia’s island state to the south of its mainland, best known to most American baby-boomers for its cartoon personality pictured here, has declared itself to be 
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It’s hard to look at the hatred on this boy’s face and not feel angry that it was generated by one man. That kid should be out riding his bike with friends or studying algebra, not screaming racial epithets with a bunch of repulsive morons.
