One hundred years ago, Kahlil Gibran wrote, "Protecting others' rights is the noblest and most beautiful human act." So there is no doubt that he would be happy that the brave people of the Twin Cities were award the JFK Profile in Courage Award. These people risked
Some people would say that our president has serious insecurity issues. That he needs to put his name on everything possible because he knows he is a Jack-Ass and that his only way to get the attention that he craves is to center himself in every situation he can think
Virginia Woolf 's description of the world in the time before the first world war feels eerily similar to my thoughts when I look at the news headlines each morning. Individually, we feel powerless, but the more of us that make our voices heard in the quest for peace
In 1953 Richard Wright penned today's quote of the day to try to wake us up to the idea that human technology and inventions have the power to destroy all life on Earth. At the time, the primary focus of these words was on the recent development of
Whether it is a prison or an ICE detention camp, our society continues to send human beings to the worst of hells so that society may be "protected" from phantoms of its own making. And this time the phantom that we are protecting ourselves from was a person
Whether it is creating a new Migrant Farm Worker program that is absolutely evil, but is meant to counter the dumb-ass and inhuman policy he has been enforcing on immigrants or it is asking other countries to clean up his mess in Iran, he is constantly showing that every thing
Each day seems to bring darker and darker news from all over the world. Shirley Jackson recognized that in such bad times we must try to be a little nicer to those around us. They too are under the cloud of despair that is engulfing our planet, so let us
Kurt Vonnegut's statement that "a scientist can be an accessory to murder most foul" has been part of our consciousness ever since the Manhattan Project, but never since that time have scientists and engineers of all stripes been more culpable for the death and destruction caused
People will use to treatment of women and girls as a means to attack religions other than their own, but unfortunately, the subjugation of women is a theme that runs through societies and religions around the world. Recent surveys show the world-wide attitudes toward women moving in the wrong direction
In the last few days we have had some small steps taken to continue the process of getting rid of the hereditary aristocracy in the United Kingdom. Mark Twain wrote over 130 years ago that "it is enough to make a body ashamed" to see how we have
This week marks 150 years since the first words were spoken over a telephone. Since that time, with invention after invention, we have made communicating between different parts of the world even easier. Today, it is so easy to share memes, messages, songs, pictures, and videos with complete strangers from
This was a tough winter for the Northeastern part of the United States. But the last couple of days have been amazing. I am vibing with the words of Mary Shelley, "The winter has been dreadfully severe; but spring promises well"