In this video, we see a massive demonstration outside the U.S. consulate in Greenland, featuring a banner that reads,”99.7% say NO!” Are you telling me that only 3 out of 1000 Greenlanders want to see their country annexed by the …
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What Children Learn at School Differs Greatly According to Region
In a recent post I mentioned that Denmark puts its schoolchildren through a course on empathy, where they’re taught that other people should be treated with kindness and decency. At left we have another element of what kids in this …
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Free Education, Pros and Cons
I had a conversation earlier today with a woman from Melbourne, Australia who lamented that her country recently ceased providing free education to all her country’s citizens. “It’s a shame,” she said, “that we couldn’t have followed the developed countries …
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Privilege As It Applies in American Society
The video here has been around for several years, and provides a metaphorical look at the concept of privilege. In this regard, we all have our own stories to tell. Here’s mine: I was adopted by two sane and productive …
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Red Meat and Ultra-Processed Foods
The meme here presents a grossly stupid and unfair comparison. A diet that consists of too much snack food hurts one person: you. The beef industry, by contrast, exists by 1) destroying vast areas of rainforest that formerly was absorbing …
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The U.S. Economy Is in Trouble, but What Exactly Did We Expect?
To me, the funniest part (if there is one) of the fiasco we Americans are experiencing is that somehow, voters elected a president who has no training in economics to make decisions that are having enormously destructive effects on the …
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Child Labor
U.S. child labor laws were put into place in 1938 to protect the educational opportunities of youth and prohibit their employment in jobs that are detrimental to their health and safety. But, as shown at left, today’s mass deportation of …
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Why Republicans Are Getting into Trouble
When I was growing up in the 1960s, Republicans tended to be conservatives in some legitimate sense of the word. Their values, e.g., honesty, were written into each episode of television shows like Leave It to Beaver and the Andy …
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“America First” Has Roots that Predate MAGA
American exceptionalism is a lowbrow concept, to be sure. There are no special rules that apply to the U.S. that don’t apply to the other nations of the world. In particular, it’s hard to imagine that God blesses America any …
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Upholding Our First Amendment Rights
What Robert Reich says here is 100% correct; Trump can disappear me–or anyone else who published unflattering material on the president. This, of course, is a direct violation of the principle that lies at the very core of American society, …
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