According to the Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of writer Alexis de Tocqueville, born in Paris (1805). He was 25 years old when the French government sent him to America to study the prison system. He spent nine months touring towns and …
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Examining Life’s Meaning
Pictured and quoted here, Rabindranath Tagore “was a Bengali polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.” I’m going to take a moment and let what he wrote here …
Vote in November
Whatever could this gentleman mean? Well, perhaps it’s a reference to the fact that the will of the people has exactly zero bearing on the way those people are governed. Over 90% of American voters favor universal background checks for …
Tagged with: a functioning EPA, banking regulations, better public schools, full support for the Mueller investigation, no looting of the U.S. treasury to provide tax cuts for billionaires, Renewable Energy, the will of the people, universal background checks for prospective gun owners, universal healthcare
Corn Ethanol Under Pressure
Of the 13 billion bushels of corn harvested in the U.S. each year, 27% are consumed in creating ethanol, largely on the basis of the $7 billion in subsidies paid to corn farmers by the U.S. government.
Climate Change and the Battle for Your Mind
Imagine it’s January 1, 2015, and you’re given $65 million with the proviso that you must spend every nickel of it by the end of the year, solely to communicate a certain specific message to the world. What would that …
The U.S. Has Role Models for Sustainability and Civility All Over the Globe
My dear friend (and very first marketing consulting client, back in 1985) Terry Ribb writes that she takes heart in the progress that Sweden has made in committing to renewables. I thought I would publish the conversation that she and …
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Notes on an Ideal Civilization
Last night, a friend of mine sent me a considerable laundry list of things he thinks everyone, certainly all U.S. citizens, are entitled to as basic human rights. I don’t know. I see providing all this stuff gratis to a …
