I’m not one to make fun of the impotence of the United Nations; I wish it weren’t so. But this one does seem to be a bit outside their realm. What does the UN’s declaring something to be a human …
Category: Sustainability
Hey You! Watch Those Analogies!
I was one of those people who actually enjoyed taking the SATs. I was much better at math than verbal, but I remember the analogies fondly. These are tests of vocabulary, an example of which might be: Loud is to …
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Caring About Others Makes Trumpism Hard To Live With
This is precisely what I told my son when Trump was elected: Regardless of how bad this is for the country and the world as a whole, it will affect us directly very little, We’re not female, gay, Muslim, black, …
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From the New York Times: In Alaska’s Covid Crisis, Doctors Must Decide Who Lives and Who Dies
This article presents a chilling position for a doctor to find himself in, forced to make the decision to save one life at the expense of another. Alaska is known for its rugged individualism and anti-government, anti-science sentiment. Thus, anyone …
Anti-Vax Protesters
Here’s a video showing how police treat violent anti-vax protestors more gently than those whose causes may be equal rights, peace, or environmental responsibility. That’s sad, of course, but it’s worse that these pigs actually exist. How much is it …
Our Civilization Is Anything But Civilized
This really is a sad commentary on white “civilization” here in the U.S. Elsewhere in America, we have the situation described below. I’m not a religious fellow, but do you know what I’d do if the Pope asked me to …
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America of Yesteryear
“Reusing everything was a way of life.” So was taking care of one another, behaving with kindness and decency.
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A Message To America From Mid-19th Century Russia
Leo Tolstoy wrote: When I read your letter it seemed to me impossible that I could send any message to the American people. But thinking over at night, it came to me that, if I had to address the American …
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Historical Metaphor for Mask-Wearing
Yes, but that was before–75 years before–a) our educational system had failed, b) we had developed the means to mass disseminate complete, anti-scientific garbage, and c) levels of greed and selfishness had risen to a point that the world had …
Rights and Obligations
I loved this quote when I first came upon it many years ago, long before COVID-19. Now it has a much more powerful meaning that no one at the time would have considered possible, i.e., that more than 20% of …
