She was imprisoned for praying? How about a little honesty? From the United States Attorney’s Office: Bevelyn Williams was sentenced to 41 months in prison for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (the “FACE Act”) in June 2020 …
Category: Sustainability
What Lies Beneath Humankind’s Atrocities
Aldous Huxley put this thought by Marcus Aurelius a bit differently: ‘The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.’
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Social Progress in the United States
As shown in the graphic here, the U.S. was making decent progress until fairly recently. Some speculate that the emergence of Donald Trump on the political scene released a great deal of pent-up hatred, allowing, in fact encouraging, white people …
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Finland and Homelessness
Finland’s tackling homelessness is a far easier challenge than one might think, insofar as they actually care about stuff like this. Everyone gets free education and healthcare in exchange for the taxes they pay, so their healthy and gainfully employed. …
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A World Without War
The concept presented at left is important, but one whose only answer is that this civilization is far more likely to go extinct than it is to survive via the cessation of war. I base this on the way our …
Teaching Sustainability
On social media we see lots of ideas like the one expressed at left. I reject most of them on the grounds that, for everything we add to high school curricula, we need to take something away, because there are …
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From RFK — Sr.
From Robert F. Kennedy: Few will have the opportunity to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is …
Fox News’ Effect of American Civilization
Re: the meme at left that a reader sent me, I would say that the introduction of Fox News in 1996 was the result of an epiphany that the entire business world had around that time, to the effect that …
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Patriotism
Short story writer Guy de Maupassant left us this: “Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.” FWIW, I’ve always felt the same way. There is no good reason (especially now) to believe …
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How Bad Is It, Really?
At left we have another way of raising the question: Is the world really a worse place to live now, or are we simply more aware of its shortcomings? For my money, today, humankind has the worst collection of world …
