For you petition-signers, here’s a good one that just received my John Hancock. I took the text below from an email that I can no longer find, and thus can’t cite.
Category: Sustainability
Caring About the Well-Being of Others
Right. This is something you either understand instinctively, or it’s a concept you’re incapable of grasping. I’m reminded of a time I met the wife of an old friend. Over dinner, she asked what I did, and I told her …
Tagged with: Caring About the Well-Being of Others
News from the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Here’s a piece from an 1918 edition of Alaska’s “Douglas Island News.” All of this is of great relevance today, but worthy of special note are: Do not disregard the advice of a specialist, just because you don’t understand (medicine). …
Tagged with: spoiled morons
The 2020s Will See Unprecedented Disruption
Readers wishing to stretch their minds would do very well to listen to this podcast, featuring thought leader, entrepreneur, educator, author, executive, consultant and business architect Tony Seba. Tony predicts that the 2020s will be the most disruptive decade in …
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Focusing on Contraception
Five years ago, I wrote this piece on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and an interview I had seen in which Melinda mused: “It’s weird. When I visit them, all I want to talk about is vaccines; all they …
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Focusing on Contraception Read More »
What Should We Be Teaching in Our Schools?
Let’s add onto that: How to live with a government being taken over by a criminal sociopath, and a society so fixated on gratifying its own selfish desires that it’s become the only one on Earth to have allowed a …
Fighting Stupidity and a Pandemic at the Same Time
As shown at left and in the comments below, there are entire communities of people who believe the pandemic is a hoax. I thought readers may be amused, horrified, or some combination of the two by the discussion here. Person …
Fighting Stupidity and a Pandemic at the Same Time Read More »
Tagged with: Fighting Stupidity and a Pandemic at the Same Time
John Wesley Was Quite a Guy
John Wesley was an 18th Century English cleric, theologian and evangelist. Wikipedia notes: (He) was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent …
America’s Two Political Parties Clash in the Most Idiotic Ways Possible
Those living outside the United States may read the dialogue at the left and say, “Give me a break; it couldn’t possibly be that stupid.” Well, I’m sorry to have to report that this is precisely the childishly idiotic level …
America’s Two Political Parties Clash in the Most Idiotic Ways Possible Read More »
Understanding Left v. Right Wing Politics
A reader sent me this meme. I wrote back, “Errr, that means you’re on the left.” Until very recently, there were no societies on Earth, certainly not in the developed world, that were attempting to eliminate science from policy-making and …
