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 …
Trust in the United States
Trumpism could be defined as the rejection of truth and science, and the willingness to tell bald-face lies in order to make Donald Trump appear to be an honest and effective servant of the American people. Until what time, if …
Trump Desperate to Deny Americans Access to Unflattering Information
The nonprofit Corporation for Public Broadcasting provides financial backing to thousands of public radio and television stations, including NPR and PBS. Republicans have succeeding in forcing it to close, making it that much harder for Americans to receive information that …
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Is Earth a “Group Project?” If So, Is “No One Doing Their Part?”
As a percentage, there are very few people on this planet who view Earth as “one big group project,” but these folks are, in the main, members of the more than 200,000 groups whose purpose is environmental and social justice. …
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The Future Isn’t Always an Extrapolation of the Past
If the future looks like the past, it’s very clear that our legacy for generations to come will feature overwhelming amounts of authoritarianism, greed, ignorance, racism, environmental collapse, perhaps along with nuclear conflagration. Fortunately, as some brilliant mind put forward, …
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Education Is Inversely Related to Criminality
Part of the beauty of the societies of Scandinavia and most of the rest of the developed world is their understanding of the fact that a well educated populace tends to commit very few crimes. Sweden, for example, is closing …
Open Carry
I have to admit that if I walked into a store and saw someone not in uniform with an assault rifle strapped across his back, I would turn around and leave. Our lives are in enough danger from ultra-right-wing stupidity …
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Some Good Advice
I like the cut of this guy’s jib. When my kids were young, I told them that they were going to spend a great deal of their lives working, so find something you love and get incredibly good at it.
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Our World Loves Solving Problems that Don’t Exist
I had to laugh when I saw this blurb about Putin’s banning Satanism in Russia. First, how many Satanists are we to think there actually are in the Motherland? 11? Secondly, how much danger do you think Satanism truly represents …
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