Isn’t Pope Francis a wonderful counterbalancing force to the hatred and ignorance we find all around us? Makes one wonder what life on Earth would be like if we had national leaders such as this giant of the spirit.
Category: Sustainability
Compassion, Cooperation, and Sacrifice
The author of the beautiful piece of writing below makes an excellent point. What we’re experiencing, in the main, is compassion for our fellow human beings. We need to look at this as the warm-up act for a planetary challenge …
Value of a Liberal Arts Education
How valid is a liberal arts education in today’s world? The subject comes up more often today than it had in the past, for a few reasons. First, even before the coronavirus, we lived in a tough economy. High-paying jobs …
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Today’s Outrage: President Trump Tweets to ‘Liberate Michigan’ Repeating Sentiment from Lansing Rally
In Michigan, thousands gathered for a stay-at-home protest in downtown Lansing on Wednesday, calling for the imprisonment of the state’s governor, who had ordered the lock-down. Today, our president tweeted his support for this lawlessness, which could be construed as solicitation, …
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Fox News In Hot Water
Fox News is under an aggressive legal attack, principally from the State of Washington, on the basis that it broadcast a long series of lies minimizing the impact of the coronavirus and that, thus far, this has cost thousands of …
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How Misogyny Has So Grossly Disfigured The United States
I thought readers might be interested in a conversation between senior energy analyst and political activist Glenn Doty and me on the subject of the meme here, which is captioned, “From Iceland to Taiwan and from Germany to New Zealand, …
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Philippine’s Dictator Extends Grounds for Police to Kill Citizens
In response to the meme here, reader Sara notes, “Follow the law, no worries.” It’s strange to hear an American say this. Our right to due process under the law, as guaranteed by our 5th and 14th Amendments, is so …
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About as Far Off-Topic As One Can Get: Quarantine Fun
The COVID-19 virus has brought out a great deal of creativity in people looking for ways to entertain themselves and their families. One that I particularly admire is attributed to the Getty Art Museum: using household objects to mimic famous …
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Dear Apple and Google: We Don’t Need New Phones Every Year……
….. and we really wish we could stop landfilling the toxic chemicals in our old, perfectly good electronics. We are becoming increasingly aware of the issues associated with sustainability, and you could help us by selling us less stuff we …
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The Justification for Restricting Our Rights in Times of Emergency
A reader asks: We, the vast majority of people on the planet who are healthy, are being restricted because a very small percentage of the planetary population has a virus. Would (you) like to tell me what’s right about that? …
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