Take the largest secular democracy on Earth, and elect a president who refashions the federal government around state Hinduism, and expect no violence against the 172 million people identifying as adherents of Islam. That takes top-notch stupidity.
Category: Sustainability
Religious-Driven Slaughter in India: Who Could Have Seen This Coming?
Tagged with: religious driven slaughter
Do We Have an Allergy To Opinions?
The meme suggests that we’re more sensitive to opinions generally than we have been in the past, but that’s not the issue. The problem is that many people have opinions today that the rest of us find disgusting, and they …
Joe Coulombe, Founder of Popular Trader Joe’s Markets, Dies
It is with sadness that I note the passing of Joe Coulombe, founder of Trader Joe’s markets.
Tagged with: Trader Joe's
GET Your Brains. Get ‘Em While They’re Hot
The pic here is from a collection of “Photographs of Old Philadelphia,” which happens to be my home town. Growing up, I always kept some quarters in my pocket, and I became a frequent customer of the enterprise whose sign …
Tagged with: Fox News
Trump “Mystifies” Reporters with Total Ignorance of Coronavirus. Really?
Frankly, I doubt very much that reporters were “mystified.” These people follow Trump around and are familiar with all aspects of his extremely consistent demeanor: From all accounts, he hates learning. He doesn’t read, and dislikes being briefed, even on …
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Tagged with: Trump lies constantly
Coronavirus Experts Muzzled, But How?
Can someone explain the mechanism by which this works, given the First Amendment? Can’t the guy simply walk to NPR HQ (walking distance from the White House and U.S. Capitol)? If I were this guy, I’d say, “I’m a top …
Tagged with: first amendment
Growing Levels of Intolerance in America Mirrored Around the World
In Poland, nearly 100 municipalities, one-third of the country, a region larger than Hungary, have declared themselves to be “free of LGBT ideology.” What that means precisely is described in the article linked above. At the same time, here in …
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Tagged with: Hatred and sustainability
MIT’s Look at Civilization’s Megatrends
Here are 9 top megatrends as seen by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Tagged with: climate change mitigation, climate crisis, destroying public education, massive disinformation campaigns and denial of science, sustainability means meeting our own needs in a manner in which future generations are able to meet theirs, Water a stressed resource, water shortage and drought
Hate in America
There is no doubt that our civilization, certainly the United States, is experiencing a rise in hate at this moment, so let’s take a look at the factors that may lie behind that phenomenon. Russian involvement. All 17 U.S. intelligence …
Tagged with: destroying the environment for profit
Is Civilization Making Progress?
Below is yesterday’s “poem for the day” from Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac.” There’s a lot to like here, but one thing that I want to comment on is “Don’t think that progress exists. It doesn’t.” Well, that’s a downer, and …
Tagged with: and the U.S. Constitution, authoritarian governments popping up all around the globe, Magna Carta, rise of tribalism, the abolition of slavery, the Age of Reason, the civil rights movement, The Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Geneva Convention, the Renaissance, the United Nations, women's suffrage
