Journalism is the only profession that’s explicitly mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. It seems that the Founding Fathers believed that protecting the free press was a pretty good idea. When the richest man on Earth says, “legacy media must die,” …
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What Breakfast Is Supposed to Contain
Sorry, but I didn’t know that breakfast was supposed to be constructed of products that come from large mammals. Did this come from the bible? When you go downstairs to breakfast from your hotel room in Tokyo, you’re greeted with …
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Franklin: Ignorance Is Expensive
What Ben Franklin says here makes sense. In particular: We don’t want to live among hateful morons, not only because they’re repulsive, but because such people, when given the right to vote, tend to elect demagogues, aka criminal sociopaths. If …
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Most of Our Worries Are Manufactured
This beautifully written piece at left reminds us that most Americans are not capable of discarding the bullshit to which we are exposed on a daily basis, and, in particular, how little threat the transsexual population represents to us. Three …
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Pope Francis’ Legacy
It would be foolish to think that Pope Francis made a dent in the hate and hypocrisy of the Christian right, but at least he tried.
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Pope Francis, Humanitarian
Pope Francis will never be forgotten, in particular for the fact that he completely transformed the Catholic Church into a humanitarian institution. Some people may not be able to appreciate this fully, as they may be unaware that, for 1600 …
Classical Music in the United States
Re: the meme here, the truth is that very few Americans care a whit about either.
Two Thousand Years Hence
My recent post The Human Condition According to a Famous Stoic presents Roman philosopher Seneca‘s bold statement at left, but it also raises the question: Are there any people of our current era that will be the subject of conversation …
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The Human Condition According to a Famous Stoic
Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca made a bold statement at left, though most of human culture acts as though there is no truth to his statement whatsoever. We live our lives surrounded by never-ending war, torture, the death penalty, poverty/hunger, injustice, …
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Recipe for the End of Humankind
This from senior physicist Dr. Brian Cox. I’d have to add in greed and selfishness.
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