We may think that it is uniquely American to discard science as the tool to determine the truth in subjects like the environment, vaccinations, the shape of the Earth, etc. After all, we re-elected Donald Trump to lead our country, …
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What Went Wrong Here in the United States?
To answer the question posed at left: America at one time had moral standards, but we’ve abandoned them. Now, it’s about the essential principles of MAGA: white nationalism, the rejection of science, and the repudiation of “wokeism.” It’s a disgusting …
Let’s Replace George Washington with Charlie Kirk on the U.S. Quarter
The American ultra-right-wing is lining up a heap of posthumous praise on Charlie Kirk. Of course, not everyone feels the same, like the author of the meme at left, who points out that Kirk was merely a podcaster. My problem …
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Where Have the Flags Gone? — An Interesting Question
I happen to know the author of the piece at left from my business days. Here are two related answers to his question: 1) The American flag has taken on a new meaning since the formation of the MAGA bunch, …
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The American Flag Doesn’t Mean What it Did 20 Years Ago
A neighbor writes: Anyone else upset that there are no American Flags in our little town for Memorial Day?? How about a little patriotism??? I can see the dilemma. Unfortunately, the American flag has been co-opted by the MAGA Trump …
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**Some** Americans Are Embarrassed About What Our Nation Has Become
Let’s be honest. The American people elected this SOB just a few months ago, and he was hardly an unknown quantity. We need to deal with the fact that almost half of U.S. voters approve of ignorance of basic economics, …
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Living as Brothers
I would love to cite evidence that we’re on the way to “living together as brothers” rather than “perishing together as fools,” but I struggle to find it. I see too much (and perhaps an irreversible amount of) greed, tribalism, …
Robert F. Kennedy on Embracing the Future
Here’s Bobby Kennedy’s assertion on our society’s resistance to change. He certainly nailed something important, but I would argue that what we’re looking at now, several decades after his death, has a far uglier and meaner look on its face. …
A Certain Stupidity Is “in Fashion”
Early 20th Century Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset made this remark about “a stupidity that is in fashion,” implying that different elements of stupidity are fads, like bell-bottom jeans or (we hope) rap music. And that does make sense, …
When Education Becomes a Threat
Lots of truth here. Suppose you’re a party whose platform consists of racism, xenophobia, homophobia, the proliferation of assault weapons, banning abortion, the rejection of science, and the Big Lie. How much education do you really want voters to have?
