Here’s the “thought for today” from Wordsmith.org: We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, “I speak as a citizen of the world” without others saying, “God, what a nut.” -Lawrence Lessig, professor and activist (b. …
Category: Sustainability
What Our Colleges Do
From the “Foundation for Individual Rights in Education”: Free speech doesn’t just mean having everyone agree with you and living in an echo chamber. There are lots of things that I don’t agree with, but if someone else believes those …
Getting Money Out of Politics
Here’s a guy with a sane perspective. Nice going. Let’s make this happen.
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Most Gun Owners Are Good People
It’s important to keep in mind that most gun owners are not NRA members, and, generally, vehemently disapprove of the organization’s indifference to safety, which make the danger of mass shootings many times higher than it would be if guns …
Psychiatric Drugs and Mass Shootings
The assertion in the meme here is simply false. Iceland, Canada, Australia, and Sweden have virtually identical rates of consumption of drugs like antidepressants to the United States (12% – 15%), though they have almost no gun violence. That’s because, …
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What Universal Healthcare and Free Education Actually Mean
As we examine the meme here, we realize that, sadly, there are many reasons that the United States is not going in this direction. We don’t really have a sense of society, and even if we did, we don’t care about …
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Don’t Americans Enjoy Unlimited Gun Rights?
In response to this post, which contains the data point that the U.S. has suffered 200+ mass shootings in the first 144 days of 2020, a gun nut reader responds: Reader: More than one shooting daily? On what planet? … …
Saying No To Common Sense Gun Laws
Those AR-15s really are the weapon of choice, aren’t they? From this: Soon after (Texas governor Gregg) Abbott announced the death of the children and a teacher at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, Texas, about 130 km …
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Pope Francis Gets It Right–Yet One More Time
It’s been a while since I mentioned that Pope Francis is among the most compassionate leaders of a large group of people that humankind has ever known. The meme here, of course, is a reference to the Catholic archbishop of …
Survival Is the Exception
This gem is from 20th Century American astronomer and philosopher Carl Sagan. There is no reason to expect that organized human civilization will persist indefinitely, even under the best of circumstances. And these aren’t exactly “the best of circumstances,” are …
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