I’m happy to hear this, but I would make this prediction: Go 40 miles in any direction from downtown Dallas and repeat the experiment. Don’t be surprised if the bartender is cheered. This is the same phenomenon that we see …
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Below is a performance of Frederik Chopin’s waltz in G flat. I bring it up because a dear old friend who grew up in the Netherlands used to play it, and when I asked him how he could get through …
Where do you break the chain of single-use plastic? The manufacturer? The distributor? The retailer? The consumer? There is no correct (or incorrect) answer, but, as shown in the photo, there is no good reason that it can’t be the …
In response to the meme here, Eddy Oriente Balzola writes: Not when they act like thugs. Otherwise, respect indeed. Exactly, Eddy. All good people respect soldiers and police personnel, but, at the same time, hold them accountable for abiding by …
I haven’t spent a dime in a Home Depot in decades. I hope readers feel and act the same.
Here, Frederick Douglass provides us one of the best justifications for investment in quality education. We’re raising a generation of people who are going to be unable to compete in the global economy, and have tendencies towards racism, violence, and …
The thought expressed here represents a serious challenge for humankind, and it’s precisely the mechanism that keeps Trumpism so firmly rooted in place. The MAGA crowd is organized in lockstep around the principles of hate, violence, and exclusion. As MLK …
Americans tends to overlook the fact that all of us benefit a great deal from our government’s programs. Few of us spend any time at all asking ourselves where capitalism ends and socialism begins, or vice versa. Snow removal is …
What we’ve done to our teachers, in terms of underpaying them, putting them in harm’s way, and cutting off their means to discipline our children, is deplorable. We get precisely the next generation of idiots and juvenile delinquents we so …
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The meme here came from a reader who seems not to understand that everyone supports law enforcement as long as its actions are legal and fair.
