Here’s a deeply moving video that seems to be making the rounds. The business world around us is bombarding us with messages 24 hours per day, on a relentless quest to tell us what we should be thinking, and, course, …
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Here are two ways of saying essentially the same thing, that come from a pair of human history’s greatest minds. As we work our way through the 21st Century, we’re running into the effects of the widening chasm between the …
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Here’s an ad from “4Partiots” that offers a “power generator” (actually a solar panel and a battery): The world is changing and we’ve had our wake-up call and now know that the best person to rely on in any emergency …
The meme here comes from a study published in Smithsonian Magazine, demonstrating that “lower” life forms take far better care of one another than do human beings. Concern for others seems to be inherent in most life forms–just a bit …
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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger was at the top of the American legal pyramid when I was a teenager in the early 1970s. His perspective that the (mis)interpretation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, at the …
Anthropologist/primatologist Jane Goodall is optimistic about the outcome of our civilization, despite the hole we’ve dug for ourselves vis-a-vis environmental collapse. As shown here, she bases a great deal of her hope on the devotion that young people have when …
Mid-20th Century sci-fi author Robert Heinlein was a counter-culture hero with his novel Stranger in a Strange Land, which spoke to a generation that was already in the midst of challenging our most stupid and harmful social conventions. As much …
From an old friend: According to an old Native American legend, one day there was a big fire in the forest. All the animals fled in terror in all directions, because it was a very violent fire. Suddenly, the jaguar …
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I totally agree with the author of the meme here, especially given the trend toward authoritarianism we see happening in so many countries around the globe, including our own. Demagogues need a hateful and ignorant base over which to rule, …
Here’s a fabulous idea for the disposition of assault weapons. Not sure we’ll have too many takers, but I like the thought.
