This from Major General Paul Eaton, United States Army, retired. I’m going to ask you to chip in to VoteVets. Let me tell you why: Donald Trump is attacking Gold Star Families. When I lost my father in the Vietnam …
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American Pessimism
Here’s a thought on David Brooks’ recent essay in The Atlantic: “Chicken Littles Are Ruining America,” aka “The Zeitgeist of Doom.” He writes: Since about 2004, the share of American 12th graders who say it is “hard to have hope …
Issues in American Education
I love Moyers. Let’s put so much hope and trust into our teachers, pay them as if they were the trash we are barely willing to collect. Let’s make sure they have no capacity to discipline their pupils. Then, as …
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Approaches to Death
As we get into the later years of our lives, after we’ve lost a parent (or both) and more than a few school chums, we start to consider, perhaps for the first time, our own mortality. Dylan Thomas is best …
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Americans’ Eroding Respect for Higher Education
It would be interesting to know the precise set of factors associated with this fairly dismal report, summarized in the bar chart below. Certainly the high costs, especially those associated with student debt, play an important role. Another contributor, to …
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Minimizing Waste in Food Packaging
I’m sure most 2GreenEnergy readers use reusable bags when they shop for groceries and avoid over-packaging. It’s hard to lower our eco-footprint beyond a certain point, but everyone should take the quick and easy steps.
A Few Words from the Great Aristotle
Aristotle brings up a most interesting point here. A college friend of mine used to go off alone into the mountains for weeks at a time during vacations, which fulfilled him greatly. I tried it once shortly after we graduated, …
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Raising Kids Without Religion
Here’s an interesting article that begins: Gone are the days of the unyielding God-fearing mother as the archetype of good parenting, suggests a recent article from the Los Angeles Times. According to multiple reports, research has shown that a secular upbringing …
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Not All Protesters Are Youngin’s
One thing to notice about protest marches is the number of participants over 60 years old. It’s impolite to get too precise in estimating a woman’s age, but let’s just say the one carrying the sign at left has been …
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Americans Attack One Another Wherever Remotely Possible
Here’s someone who believes that those who show kindness to intelligent animals like pigs are morons. Speaking strictly for myself, that’s not the type of person I aspire to be.
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