Here’s a very thoughtful piece about moral philosophy as it pertains to every human being on this planet as it devolves into environmental ruin. Who’s to blame? Whom do we need to hold accountable? My God, what a complicated subject …
Category: Sustainability
Trump’s Fraudulent Charity and His Qualifications for U.S. President
Trump just wrote his second check as restitution for the criminal fraud he perpetrated through his fake charity, using the funds that were donated to develop a cure for childhood cancer for his own enrichment. I run into people visiting …
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Obviously, Cutting Food Stamps To the Poorest Americans and Their Children Is Cruel, But That’s Not the Worst Part
Let’s begin with an explanation of the photo here; it was taken in Florida, a state where more than half of all children lives in or near poverty. The Trump administration claims that its decision to take food stamps away …
Reforming Christianity
If you read what the atheist intellectuals / secular humanists of our time (principally Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennit) say about religion, you learn why they think the entire subject needs to disappear from our society …
Jimmy Carter’s Old, But Just as Potent a Force for Compassion as Ever
Most people improve in character with age; they gain wisdom, become more honest, more generous and less hostile. Most are able to look at their lives in grander terms, and some come to see humankind as a whole, struggling to …
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Why America Is Going Backwards in Terms of Race, and Why This Is Probably Going To Turn Itself Around
There are dozens of different conjectures as to the cause of this retrograde era in the U.S. where white people seem to be doing things as despicable as anything they had done in the past. To be sure, there’s nothing …
Committing Crimes Again Humanity
Most of us don’t need an expert in crimes against humanity to tell us that what the United States has done to 5400 children and their parents on the southern border is disgraceful. For the rest of us, let me …
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China’s Schoolkids Beat American Students in All Academic Categories: Celebrating Our Failed Educational System
I often use this space to comment on the probable trajectory that the U.S. is likely to take in global competitiveness over the coming decades. And, though I normally look at this from a number of different perspectives, the meme …
Let’s Celebrate a World of Intelligence and Warmth!
This meme reminds us of the capacity for kindness and human compassion that lives deep within all us. From Wikipedia: The Christmas truce was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of World War I around Christmas 1914.
Trump Supporters Are Happy People Just Now
I just had a sad realization, but one I wanted to share nonetheless. I got a Christmas card from an old college buddy who wrote, among the usual seasonal messaging, “Everyone here had a very good year.” I turned immediately …
