At left are the words of astrophysicist PhD and Queen lead guitarist Brian May. The problem here on Earth isn’t that there are no intelligent, decent, and kind people. It’s that their numbers pale in comparison to the number of …
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The Sickening Decline of American Education
There are many baby boomers who remember shows like Bugs Bunny and Rocky and Bullwinkle and lament that quality television for the young no longer exists. Appreciation for shows like these require a basic level of understanding of music, art, …
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American Anti-Intellectualism
What Katie Couric says here is undeniably true. There is a palpable resentment of educated people who understand science, and push for all the tenets of the U.S. Constitution: due process, the balance of powers, the states’ rights to regulate …
Kindness
Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Jewish theologian and philosopher with a social consciousness that led him to participate in the civil rights movement. I love what he says here, though intelligence still impresses me, for what that’s worth.
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On Facebook: AGE TEST: How Many of You Actually Saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan 62 Years Ago Today?
I did; I was eight years old. What I remember most about it was that my (classical) piano teacher was quite disappointed with me that I would lower myself to such garbage.
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This Olympian Says it All
Even in these dark times of dishonesty, hate, and ignorance, there are still bright spots, as illustrated at left.
Raising Our Kids
If I had my child-rearing days to do again, this is precisely how I would conduct myself. Hats off.
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What Breakfast Is Supposed to Be
The author of the meme here seems to believe that breakfast is supposed to be “about” something. As if cereal or fruit or orange juice or waffles or pancakes or oatmeal or hashbrowns or jam and bread or whatever one …
America’s Deep and Powerful Antifa Roots
My father was one of approximately 16.2 million soldiers who fought to prevent the spread of fascism in World War II. The United States has a distinguished history of Antifa that continues to this very day.
Here in America, We Ruin Things
One of the key features of American society is its affinity for destroying good things. Undocumented immigrants who came here in the 20th Century living peacefully and paying their taxes? Get them out. An educational system cranking out graduates who …
