Given what today is, the message is all on the Professor and Housewife side of this blog...
Want an indication that the environmental battle is being lost? The National Resource Defense Council’s best answer (and Robert Redford’s) to strip mining on public land is to ask you the citiz...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s seminal book, Silent Spring. In re-reading it after all these years, I am shaken, jolted, struck, shocked, and disturbed, all over again....
People think I’m easier on the Democrats because I like them. Uhm, no, I don’t. I just despise what their opponents do, and that tends to seem to let them off the hook, but only in compar...
Anyone miss me? :)The things we accept at face value often fall apart when we press on them even a little. I thought about this in all the traveling I’ve done lately. You see these little...
A prime reason the country is in bad shape because you, the citizen, probably know WAY more about:Your favorite sports and sports teamsYour house and homes in generalYour car and cars in generalShopp...
“I am done.”“We are through, forever.”“My biological father made his choice to notbe a part of my life. I don’t care abouthim anymore.”“I’ll never be like that again.”Oh, humans, and their funn...
We are failing as a people. Because we cling to illusion, to ouremotionally anchored beliefs and false “facts.” Because, in Jack Nicholson’scharacter’s words, we “can’t handle the truth.”And so...
The tremendous amount of misinformation about “energy”being infused into the media outlets: Ioften wonder how much the transmittersreally believe, how much is just fed to them, how much t...
The ancient philosophers took a great dealmore opportunities to truly THINK than we usually do. Consider, in this political season ofhyperbole but without further comment, this quote from Arist...
At the rate that has been demonstrated, andthe lack of concern on the part of so many, we may lose most of what wasobtained by the longest and hardest struggles (see your history fellow citizens!).Wh...
Consider the deceiving smokescreens of concernabout “child labor,” and how little Johnny and Mary are being prevented fromworking for Granny and Granddad on the farm or the like. No parent or g...
Refusing to accept somethingdoes not make it untrue. How many women(and men) find it incomprehensible “how he/she could ‘cheat’ on me.” This “cheating” (I despise the word for awhole host...
We have, at state andnational level, complex problems of a complex society. But with legislators spending between 1/3rdand 2/3rds of their waking hours on fund raising (by necessity), where do ...
7 federal prosecutors werefired during the Bush administration because they raised objections to wastingprecious resources looking for voter fraud when they knew there was next tonone. The rest...
There was a recent Korean study of people whoplayed computer games more than 30 hours per week. The subjects reported they couldn’t reducetheir playing even though they wanted to. When the...
Post World War 2 America inserted itself intoevery manner of international involvement, and that injecting of itself intocenter stage demanded much from a people and a society. The American peo...
“I am tired of meeting BOYSwho tell me what they think I need to hear, make and break promises, and aren’tready for something serious. If you aredealing with unrequited love, childhood anger, o...
We need only look at thepayroll tax (Social Security) reduction political theater to see howintellectually and ethically bankrupt the two parties are:First, the Democrats: This reduction, which...
Saturday saw the last significant combat troops leave Iraq, bringing to a dithering and anti-climactic end major American ground involvement in Iraq. I won’t bring up how much we resemble the Roman w...
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