The first thing to acknowledge here is that China is not a free country, so of course, they can command anything they choose to be built. Americans are free to get filthy rich, and are under no obligation, legally or …
Category: Sustainability
Corporatocracy Takes Its Toll
There is a lot to love about the United States, which is why when people in developing parts of the world are asked where they’d like to live, they name the U.S. far more frequently than any other nation on …
Eco-Nazi
I chuckled the other day when I saw that someone had referred to me as an “eco-Nazi.” Of course, there’s nothing funny about this at all; there is a reason our planet’s on fire, and a large part of it …
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Third Act
Here’s a wonderful movement, “The Third Act,” whose message is that elderly people, despite cues from society that they no longer matter, are actually needed more than ever if our civilization is to get on a sustainable path. Earlier in …
Giving Up Hoping for Good News? I Hear You
I know how this guy Joshua feels. So does my wife. She used to live for news feeds on her phone that may have brought her a thrilling piece of “breaking news” about the implosion of Trump or some such. …
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Life Really IS Short, But What Does That Mean in Practical Terms?
From Steve Colbert: Rolls-Royce set an all-time sales record in 2021. The company’s CEO said, “Quite a lot of people witnessed people in their community dying from Covid, that makes them think life can be short, and you’d better live …
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Grinding “Build Back Better” into Dust
At this point, it looks as though the extreme right-wing interests are going to prevail in grinding the “Build Back Better” bill into the pavement. Some of the bravest and most committed souls in Congress haven’t given up, but it …
Tagged with: affordable child care, Build Back Better, climate resilience and electric transportation, expanded Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits, paid family and medical leave, prescription drugs available to all those who need them, support for clean energy, tax cuts for the common American, universal pre-k
“People Do Go Both Ways” – The Scarecrow
We’ve all observed how our political philosophies evolve as we age. There are people, even the brightest amongst us, who try to oversimplify this concept, e.g., Winston Churchill’s “If you’re not a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. …
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Chick-fil-A and Basic Morals
The answer to the question posed at left: It doesn’t matter. The organization is, at its core, homophobic, and self-respecting people would not be associated with it regardless of how lucrative the opportunity. I shake my head when I hear …
Interpreting Scripture
We can all agree that there are a number of interpretations of the Bible with respect to how literally these stories should be taken. At the liberal end are those who look to the Good Book for sources of hope …
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