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In mid-August, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report documenting the continuing warming of Earth and the perils implicit therein. But, the fate of the planet and everyone upon it doesn’t hold the attention
Read moreOne of Joe Biden’s more admirable goals upon assuming the presidency was his hope to get the country over the hill and coasting toward pre-pandemic normalcy by July 4. He failed – because of his false assumption that everyone
Read moreLooks can be deceiving. Our Southern Plains has had a milder than normal summer – with rains arriving almost weekly. Last week reminded us of our norms, but this week is supposed to be cooler again. We could
Read moreNearly 100 years ago, John Dewey indentified “the serious and fundamental defect of our civilization” as “materialism, our devotion to money making.” Along with the corollary of “having a good time,” these conditions are “controlled by interest in private
Read more—It is from the same bag of tricks as the race card—can be fitted to anything. Higher minimum wage causes greater unemployment. Welfare payments cause dependency. There is an element of truth in both claims; however, They never kept union
Read more“Collateral damage,” usually a military term – as when “pinpoint” drone strikes wipe out wedding parties instead of militants – applies to politics and economics as well. The two-thirds of the United States’ 600,000 COVID-19 deaths that could
Read moreA Facebook friend of mine posted this last week bragging on what Republicans have done. “BECAUSE BLACK LIVES MATTERED. Approximately 620,000 white soldiers died in the civil war in order to obtain freedom for the black slaves. The average age
Read morePolar bears spend so much of their time on ice floes and the frozen Arctic Ocean that they are classified as aquatic mammals. The greenhouse-effect heating of planet Earth is melting polar bear habitat out of existence. In
Read moreSupporting the death penalty is an element of an authoritarian personality. So we can know without asking the Trumpers are all for it. In the years after World War II some sociology researchers worked work to identify an authoritarian personality
Read moreArchaic though our Second Amendment is – a vestigial relic of completely different times – I realize that common sense will always lose to its very strict wording. And, as I have pointed out, there will never be
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