In his book, Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. describes the feelings of a character who is going out in public for the first time, dressed as a woman. He writes, "He felt uninhibited and beautiful and lovable and suddenly free". These are feelings we should want all
I understand where Virginia Woolf was coming from when she wrote that "Good books are desirable..., even if [the authors] show every variety of depravity". I have no doubt that every single author I quote has some aspects of their character that I would reject in real life
According to her daughter, Marie Curie was not a fan of putting students into traditional school settings. She thought it was "barbarous...to steal innumerable sterile 'hours of attendance' from them at a age where they should be running free" Now in Bolivia they have mandated
Paraphrasing Thoreau is the best way to describe Pete Hegseth: "You talk of heaven but you disgrace the Earth". Today's Philadelphia Inquirer had a story with very mellow headline: "Hegseth's assertive faith breaks norms, critics say". But as we read the story
At the same time Charles Darwin was writing his The Descent of Man, Mikhail Bakunin was proudly telling us that what set our first ancestors apart from other animals was our Power to Think and our Desire to Rebel. These two defining traits have never been needed more. Look at
Don't just go out to protest today and then come home thinking that you accomplished something. Instead, use these gatherings to make connections with like-minded groups and individuals. At the end of the day, make sure you have something to turn your energies to, a distinctly defined object
Thomas Paine said it best, "NO KINGS"!! Make sure you get out to show your support for one of our founding principles this Saturday. If you are in the South Jersey area, please consider coming to the NK3 rally in Camden: https://crinj.org/nk3/ If you are
Charles Dickens wrote the book Hard Times 174 years ago. In it, he was making fun of people who thought that children were empty vessels to be crammed full of facts. He modeled an education system in which the teachers were to be similar to machinery on a factory floor
More than 50 years ago, Rachel Carson did her best to wake the country up to what we were doing to our environment. There is no doubt that she was successful in getting Americans from all parts of the political spectrum to understand the dangers that unchecked capitalism posed to
Over 50 years ago, the great Shirley Chisholm said the obvious, "abortion is a fact of life. Women will have them; they always have and always will". Today's NPR article, once again, shows the truth of her statement. I just don't understand why it
I saw a link to this on Mastodon and wanted to share it. I highly encourage you to read the whole thing, but this paragraph will give you a flavor of the insanity that we are faced with on a daily basis. None us know if this is all going
Robert Mueller spent his life serving this country, and now, when he dies, the president says "Good, I'm glad he's dead". Well, I think many of us will feel the same thing in the not too distance future but in regards to another public