Gun violence is an epidemic in this country, but there is a lighter side to all this. Apparently, it’s opening day of the cucumber hunting season.
Category: Sustainability
Human Evolution and Sustainability
Here’s a clever reminder of how humankind came to fill its role as the only life form whose activities despoil its home.
Tagged with: human evolution and sustainability
The Answer: More Guns?
Believe it or not, there are people all around this country who are reveling in the mass shootings that took place over the holiday weekend in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Fort Worth. That may sound like an outrageous statement, but incidents …
Tagged with: commonsense guns laws
Trends in Environmentalism
At left we see an example of a disturbing trend, i.e., the precipitous decline in the number of Americans who consider themselves environmentalists. According to this article, a 1989 Gallup poll reported that 76 percent of Americans considered themselves environmentalists, …
Tagged with: environmentalism and environmental advocacy
Is American Culture Hostile to Christians?
Two points to be made here: 1) The percentage of those who identify as Christians in the United States and Europe is quite clearly falling, though that doesn’t mean that nonbelievers are “hostile” to the faithful. 2) Hostility comes in …
Why Love Can’t Speak Loudly
My wife and I often have discussions around this point. Why can’t people of kindness and decency speak as loudly as the greedy and the liars? It’s simply not their nature. Great thinkers have been saying this for thousands of …
Tagged with: Fools tend to have loud mouths
Televangelists in Hell
Lots of jokes have been made about the passing of Pat Robertson, and the possibility that he’s burning in hell as God’s retribution for the televangelist’s having taken advantage of our nation’s poorest and most ignorant people on his rise …
Tagged with: televangelist Pat Robertson
Making Incremental Progress Re: the Planet’s Environment
At left: Düsseldorf in 1990 and 2019. Does this mean that we’re making progress at the global level? No, but it does suggest that progressive actions can lead us all forward.
Tagged with: the Planet's Environment
Marketing To the Anti-Woke Crowd
From these folks: “Our mission is to promote Godly values, provide excellent coffee, and protect every beating heart.” In fact, this coffee may be terrible. Perhaps horribly bitter, or utterly flavorless. That’s not the point. There is one thing that …
Tagged with: anti-"woke"
America’s New Values Are Perverse
Those who remember Ayn Rand from her mid-Century novels will recall that she popularized, for a short period of time, the idea that altruism was intrinsically evil, claiming it to be incompatible with human rights, freedom, and capitalism. That thinking …
