George Orwell warns us that one of the dreadful effects of war is that it dehumanizes us; we forget that the people being killed on the other side of the war are human beings who, like ourselves, have hopes, dreams, faults, and special characteristics that make us loved by those
Being only a few weeks away from the release of the theatrical version of Project Hail Mary, I thought today would make a good day to use the book as the source for the quote of the day. In this quote we get a sense of how quickly people adapt
It doesn't matter if it was deliberate of not, this cannot be undone. Over 100 children between the ages of 7 and 12 killed in an instant. The accounts of how this occurred are heartbreaking. If anyone tries to tell you this is just colateral damage and it
Israel, Iran, and the United States. Leaders with, we are told, three different faiths, but all share the idea that they are religious as they crack down on peaceful protests, kill children, and spew hate. How can they be both cruel and religious? In his latest book, Salman Rushdie includes
We drop bombs on anyone we want, including school children, with no pretense of legal justification. We ban companies that don't want to participate in the inhumanity from doing any business with the American government based on nothing more than the fiat of our president. We ignore the
Kurt Vonnegut saw where we were headed decades ahead of time. Unfortunately, people in power ignored his warning that we had made our society so isolating on the individual that many will turn away from science and reason just to find a sense of community in the throes of charismatic
As Robin Wall Kimmerer states: WE ARE SOVEREIGN TERRITORY. Any action, by any government, that seeks to keep us from defining who we are is a violation of fundamental human rights. The name we give ourself, the clothes that we wear, the gender and sexuality that we identify as are
Why does he seem to set a new record for the length of his STFU speeches each year? Bram Stoker says it best in this quote from Dracula. And the clear answer is yes and yes. He truly has contempt for the common person and even more so for those
Today's quote of the day from Kurt Vonnegut perfectly encapsulates how I feel about the current direction of technology.
Four years ago today, Putin ordered the Russian military to invade Ukraine. Honestly, I expected him to overrun the country and be in control in Kyiv in less than a week. I am so used to people caving into power rather than fighting back that I never imagined that the
It is great to see more and more union-affliated candidates running for office all around the country, but in my mind this is only a stopgap measure. I have always been extremely pro-union, but only in the context of a world run by out of control capitalists. I
Of course there is only despair on the ground in Gaza. Their land is in ruins, their homes have been destroyed, and Palestinians in the West Bank are having their land stolen from them. They also have the historical memory of promises made and promises broken. As Emily Dickinson once