Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger gives us what is possibly the very best view into what life was like in the days of ancient Rome. As we can see at left, the situation in today’s United States bears a distinct …
Category: Sustainability
Building a Better World Means Helping One Another
There are some extremely disturbing trends out there in the world, and the most visible of them are here in the United States. I just had a conversation with a guy who asked me, “Isn’t the implementation of renewable energy …
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Catholic Cardinal vs. Woke Ideologies
Apparently, what Cardinal Mueller said at left is factual, and, for some perverse reason, it makes me laugh. This guy is so far out of step with the Catholic church and the changes it’s made over the last decade or …
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Education in America
It’s both surprising and disappointing to see our country’s greatest minds, like Mark Twain and Robert Frost, make comments like this about education. Would our children be better off illiterate? Unable to find Russia on a globe? Believing that the …
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Discussion on Gun Control
The message at left is that we live among people who believe that every U.S. citizen should be armed at all times. Every teacher, real estate agent, pastry chef, little old lady, and perhaps even our kids themselves, so often …
Why Education Is Such a Low Priority
What Karl Marx said here has been repeated by many dozens of people over the years, notably George Carlin (see below).
Gun Control
At left is a post from “Real Texas Conservatives.” When I first came across it, I wasn’t going to dignify it with a response. But then it occurred to me to remind readers that, over the last 30 years, 78% …
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From 20th Century Super-Engineer Buckminster Fuller
At left we have a good example of sanity. What we have in the real world is lunacy. It’s true that selfishness is unnecessary. But it’s one of few things that human beings living in capitalist societies do well.
McDonald’s? Maybe Not.
I’m not a dietician, but I’m willing to take a stab at something here. Living on fat, sugar, salt, and low-grade meat is not a recipe for good health. As disastrous as McDonald’s is for personal health, it’s even worse …
Moronocracy
Quite possibly the single most offensive part of the Trump presidency is that the White House has gone to a great deal of effort to find the very most incompetent people to fill the government’s most important positions. We have …
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