According to what we read here: California has revised its animal rights laws and is set to become the first state in the U.S. which will ban the manufacture, sale, and purchase of the fur products of certain wild animals. …
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I may have mentioned that I tutor at the local high school in Santa Barbara County, home of 2GreenEnergy “headquarters,” which gives me ample opportunity to speak with teachers. Unlike the city of Santa Barbara, our little town (Santa Ynez) …
There are plenty of places on Earth where fans could (and would) be “held accountable” for booing the president, but America most certainly isn’t one of them. Here, with very few exceptions, we’re free to express whatever thoughts we choose, …
From the Washington Post: The librarians of Citrus County, Fla., had what seemed like a modest wish: A digital subscription to the New York Times. For about $2,700 annually, they reasoned, they could offer their roughly 70,000 patrons an easy …
A reader sends this article from the USA Today: Let them eat steak: Hold the shame, red meat is not bad for you or climate change. Let me begin by saying that I tend to be more impressed with peer-reviewed …
As you read the exchange to the left, ask yourself: how did it become this way? How have facts ceased to matter? Sure, there have been hundreds of discussions to the effect that truth is the biggest and most tragic …
This is news? As if Trump has something to gain by fostering a population of literate people capable of free thinking?
It’s the 502nd anniversary of the act of defiance for which Martin Luther is known today: nailing a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church, marking the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation and its …
There is a reason that “reduce” comes first here, i.e., if you don’t use something in the first place, you don’t have to worry about what happens to it downstream. It is for that reason that this plan to reduce …
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Most of us probably have a lower assessment of humankind now than we did a few years ago. Until recently, it was possible to believe that our society was on a path to becoming more civilized. Outside of events that …
