Most billionaires spend their lives figuring out how to protect their wealth. This one figured out how to get rid of it. In September 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, did something almost unheard of. He gave away the entire …
Category: Sustainability
Why Is the Concept of Sustainability So Abhorrent to Americans?
To anyone who possesses both a brain and a conscience, this is the ultimate no-brainer. To the average American, this is communism.
Is Trump a Christian?
It should come as no surprise that millions of people believe that Trump is Christian — simply because he says he is. These are the same people who believe that the 2020 election was stolen, that COVID was planned by …
Why Is American Citizenship on the Decline?
If you or I were creating a set of CDs on the decline of American citizenship, we would probably point out things like the destruction of the U.S. educational system, the fact that 60% of us are living paycheck-to-paycheck, the …
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Christ and the Path to Heaven
What would I say? I’d say that it seems both strange and grossly unfair that Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, Hindus, Shintoists, and the adherents to the world’s other minor religions have no path to heaven, and, according to the bible, …
Great Writing
When I was asked the question at left, I replied: The last paragraph of “The Grapes of Wrath” makes me cry every time I think of it, let alone read it. The last line (as closely as I can remember …
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Being Decent
The meme here reminds us that it was once possible to be both a Republican and a decent human being. Think Dwight D. Eisenhower. All that’s ancient history now.
Late-Term Abortions
The reader who sent me the meme at left notes: “Abortion is child sacrifice. Children are blessings, and we must never believe the age‑old lie that their death will somehow secure a better future.” In the United States, a 9-month …
Ignorance and Vice
Here’s a thought from founding father and political philosopher Samuel Adams. Anyone who can’t see where this country is being led is blind as a bat.
Kindness to Animals
I like to eat no higher on the food chain than seafood. Even fish suffer when they’re killed by deprivation of the dissolved oxygen content in water. That’s why my boyhood bass fisherman friend and I used to shoot the …
