Adding philosophical depth to anything and everything
It shouldn’t be a political debate, but somehow it is. What should we as a society do in response to the Coronavirus pandemic? Seems obvious to anyone with any humanity: save people’s lives. Bizarrely, some feel we shouldn’t spend efforts […]
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One of the terms bandied about lately is “toxic masculinity.” The basic idea is obvious—that some men are so fixated on demonstrating how “manly” they are that they harm themselves and others in the process. I tend to frown on […]
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What is racism? Hatred? Yes. Ignorance? Yes. But the hatred spewed by ignorant racist views are symptoms of a deeper dis-ease. We need to call racism what it really is — something larger than any individual but that springs from […]
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Yes, Trump is a terrible president and worse, a terrible human being. But that doesn’t mean I will vote for Biden, because that illusion that we are stuck with only two possible choices is a part of what’s wrong with American politics.
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“If it happened once, it can happen again.” – Primo Levi Not all wisdom is feel-good candy. Harsh truths can be the most important truths. The quote in the graphic above expresses one of the most important facts of our […]
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Owen Jones is a brilliant columnist for The Guardian. His writing is always worth a read. His most recent piece, “To move on, Labour must learn lessons from the left’s failure worldwide,” is up to his usual standards but curiously […]
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I recently had this exchange with a Jewish friend about Zionism and Israel. In italics is his question/statement and below is my response. This brief exchange in no way solves the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, but it is the type of dialog […]
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Update on a story originally published on 13 Feb. 2019. The No-Deal Brexit Conspiracy is alive and well. All continues to unfold as planned. First, the earlier article that predicated much of what transpired February to July, then, where we […]
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Some people, despite all proof to the contrary, believe the moon landings were faked. How can we understand this? They aren’t all asylum inmates wearing tin foil hats in fear of government mind control. Conspiracy theories are part of human […]
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Sam Pizzigati is an author who writes extensively about wealth, taxation, and the struggles of working people. Recently he penned an interesting article for CommonDreams.com, How Progressives Can Fix the Progressive Income Tax. In his latest article, Pizzigati discusses the […]
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