Whether it is black lung caused by coal dust or silicosis caused by artificial stone being cut, workers are dying horrible deaths while some politicians fight for the rights of the companies to escape responsibility for worker deaths. This is not some aberration, it is capitalism working as intended. John
If the sky is clear, take Orwell's advice and "go out at night and watch for meteors. The stars are [still] a free show; it don't cost anything to use your eyes".
Domestic violence is an age old problem where society is much more likely to ignore the problems of the women and the children than to seriously punish the man. We see Mark Twain pointing this out over a hundred years ago, and we see it playing out in our newspapers
Another South Jersey neighbor is kidnapped and detained by ICE. Don't remain silent. "What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours". Read
In a recent article in Current Affairs, Adam McKay talks about the gargantuan lie that is collapsing the world's climate. Like Mark Twain, McKay starts his article talking about all the different forms of lying. He then goes on to try to wake us up to the lie
This post was delayed as I was in Pittsburgh to help my son settle into his new apartment. He will be starting law school in a little over a week. I know we all love to complain about lawyers, but there is no doubt that many brave lawyers are the
I don't want to cancel Thanksgiving, but I do agree with Martin Luther King that we are still not able to face what was done by this country to its indigenous population.
Today's quote of the day from Mikki Kendall seems so self-evident to me. It angers me whenever people in government make it harder for the most vulnerable in our society to access nutritious food. And I have no words when people gleefully celebrate making it harder for
Seeing the news reports on the Russian drone that was hunting a Ukrainian fruit vendor made me think of today's quote by Hermann Hesse. Hesse understands that every new weapons system that we develop causes us to lose a little more of our humanity. To me, this has
Trump calling the Iranian leadership 'Extremely Duplicitous' makes me smile. He is finally having to deal with someone as duplicitous as he is, and he can't stand it. Trump is the kind of person Mark Twain was describing when he wrote "you could trace him
Watching Democratic politicians intentionally keeping silent on the climate crisis is infuriating enough, but when we see that it is a concern of more than half the voting public, their silence becomes impossible to comprehend. Like Einstein, I am angry that the number "who are really determined to do
This week The Guardian published a short piece by Lucianne Tonti based on her book Good Witch: In Search of Our Lost Feminine Power. Her research for the book showed a clear pattern all across the western world. When men felt threatened by a women's wealth, power, creativity,