Trump Has New Explanation for Whacking Soleimani
Reader “Ann” offers this meme at left and comments: He has already changed his story even since this one was written….now he say he was coerced and pressured into it.
Exactly Ann, and I wager you haven’t heard the last of it. Coming soon: Soleimani was cruel to dogs, wasn’t a good Catholic, cheated at golf, liked underage girls. The list of possibilities is endless; Trump simply needs to keep going until he eventually finds something that resonates with the American people. We have a limitless appetite for lies.
Paradigms die hard. Deep-green lawns of lush thick grass have been with us for centuries, and it’s easy to see why they continue to hold appeal. One doesn’t throw the Frisbee with the kids or practice chipping while dodging tomato plants and rows of corn.
At left: “The need to replace fossil fuels.”
As shown here, when it comes to climate change denial, the leading three counties are the U.S., the U.K., and Australia (in that order).
Though the quality of the education offered at the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia is probably the main reason parents work hard to send their kids there, the overlay of Quakerism and everything it stands for is important as well. This means gentle but firm introduction to a contemplative life, one full of respect for all others, and, above all, a thirst for peace and a refusal of violence. 
As suggested here, watching the decline of the American education system and the consequent damage it’s doing on our ability to think can be a painful process.
A reader sent me this (at left), and I thought I’d answer his question, i.e., “How can we afford another war?”
This cartoon makes an interesting point. One would think that encouraging Americans to vote would be a message that everyone can get behind. Doesn’t democracy thrive when its people participate in it? Isn’t that a good thing? 
I just met a guy who sells and installs artificial grass, and we had a nice chat about how far this industry has come from the days of the first “Astroturf” in the late 1960s. At that point, it was so primitive, many athletes wished it had never happened. I recall Richie Allen, then star third baseman of the Philadelphia Phillies (baseball team) say, “If a horse can’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.”
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