Great quote from public intellectual Garrison Keillor here. Yet keep in mind that those working to weaken public education couldn’t care less about some notion of “community.” Whether these people are Christian fundamentalists, or some other form of small-government zealot, …
Category: Sustainability
Christian Movements
News flash: If you’re a part of a “Christian movement” that demands that “the government be a part of God’s wrath,” you have deep-seated psychological issues that are unlikely to resolve by encountering some meme on social media.
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Diversity
From the year I became an entrepreneur in 1984 until I moved into another line of work (environmental sustainability) in 2009, I’m guessing that my company (initially I myself) hired, say, 300 people. My policy was always: if two candidates …
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More On the Meaning (Meaninglessness?) of Life
In a recent post, Does Life Have Meaning? I wrote about the plethora of recent social media posts on the supposed meaninglessness of our lives. In addition to the other points I made in the original post, this subject appears …
Does Life Have Meaning?
There seems to be a great number of social media posts recently on the subject of the supposed meaninglessness of our lives. Some people point to what they believe to be an absurd cycle of “eat, work, be entertained, sleep” …
A Pleasant Surprise
In this day in which so many Americans have completely given up on English grammar, it’s almost weird to see that the sign-maker here correctly used a semicolon to separate two independent clauses. Kudos. Btw, the message is excellent as well. …
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The Meat Industry Attacks Veganism, Often With Incredibly Poor Logic
The only thing that’s “unnatural” about eating meat has occurred very recently in human history, and that’s factory farming. When I drive past thousand-acre pastures dotted with happy cows, I don’t have a problem knowing that most of these animals …
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Sonoran Desert Institute’s Advertisement: “Go to College for Gunsmithing!”
SDI, a SCHOOL OF FIREARMS TECHNOLOGY says: Sonoran Desert Institute is an online school that helps students learn the skills and techniques they’ll need to be successful in the firearms …. industry. Gunsmiths addressed an unmet need in the 18th …
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Americans and the Higher Virtues
In January of 1970, our 10th grade English teacher read the class 12 short pieces of advice that were part of a calendar, one for each month of the year. The advice pertained not how to be healthy or how …
Optimism and Pessimism Re: the Environment
The piece at left comes from legendary environmentalist Paul Hawken. The way I simplify this in my own mind is as follows: We (progressives) have the people; they have the money. The vast majority of people on this planet understand …
