At left is the clock tower of the William Penn Charter School, founded in Philadelphia in 1689. Tomorrow I’ll be traveling back there for my 50th reunion. Over the last 334 years, William Penn and the Quaker heritage has had …
Category: Sustainability
Blurring the Line Between Ignorance and Knowledge
Think of the context in which Marcus Aurelius said these words 1900 years ago. There was no social media, no QAnon, no cults built around the rejection of science. Yes, I’m sure there were “bulls*** artists,” but they didn’t represent …
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Concerns about God’s Presence in American Society
The meme here is from a group that asks, “Are you concerned that our culture has rejected God?” A couple of observations: The quote they picked is more specific than acceptance of God; it’s Christian. In fact, it explicitly rejects …
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Optimism in the Face of Reasons to Doubt
Bernie’s right: Many Americans with progressive values have bought into the idea that real chance is impossible. We may shop organic, drive electric, and teach peace, but we remain concerned that it’s too late for a culture in which Donald …
First Amendment Limitations
What Tucker Carlson says here is categorically incorrect, but he speaks to people who are ignorant of the fact that there are numerous types of speech that are not protected by the First Amendment: obscenity, defamation, fraud, incitement, fighting words, …
Hypocrisy
People have been talking about religious hypocrisy, especially among Christians I guess, for far longer than I’ve been on this planet. Yet it seems that the right-wing religious extremists have taken all this to a new level.
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Caring for Others
How does one feed 100K people daily? Most of us have made dinner for, say 20 guests. Multiply that by 50,000 and–bingo–you have arrived at the scale at which these Sikh chefs are doing here in New Delhi, India. An …
Do Colleges Teach Liberalism, Or Are Educated People Simply More Likely to Be Liberals?
The college professor quoted here believes the correct answer to the question in the headline above is the latter of the two possibilities offered, and I agree. Immanuel Kant’s concept of the categorical imperative (i.e., a moral statement that always …
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Examining Gun Death Rates by State
Re: the graphic at left, Mike Tucker writes: Looks a lot like the red\blue maps you see around election time. Almost the same distribution too. What a coincidence? It’s certainly close. What is certain is that more guns per capita …
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Sustainability
I had an interesting talk with a woman yesterday on the subject of sustainability, in particular, should we be anticipating a good or a bad end to all this? The woman suggested that maybe it doesn’t “end,” which, of course, …
