The face of feminism in the United States in my lifetime was Gloria Steinem. I remember her activism since I was just a child and I have continued to see her advocating for women until just recently. To many people feminism is about women gaining equality with men, but I
Watching the largest companies on the planet caving to the whims of a toddler reminds me of this quote from Vice President Henry A. Wallace from 1944. I hope you will all join me on MapQuest or other independent mapping program.
Vox asks if we can spend our way out of the current loneliness epidemic, but without spending money on a subscription, we cannot even find out their answer or their reasoning. So instead, let us turn to the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince. He tells
Today's quote of the day is for Rajendra Dadabi from Nepal. His story is definitely worth reading and it should serve as a reminder of something Sophocles tried to teach us 2500 years ago. "To help others with all our gifts and native strength" is the
The products might have changed, but the exploitative relationship between the "Western World" and the "Third World" remains the same. The pits of slime are now our coming from our own diseased western minds. And although the AI bubble is creating wealth at an unsustainable pace,
A Senator calls for an investigation into RFK Jr. for perjuring himself at his confirmation hearing. My question is why? Politicians can steal money and, instead of saying it was stolen, our media will tell us it was misspent, misappropriated, or lost due to a lack of due diligence. Our
It's not often that a publication like Nature has a piece on the death of an entertainer, but as we said a few days ago, "Dolly was one person picked out of 8 billion". One of the points made in the article is that Dolly was
Ben Franklin told us that no matter how much order and harmony might exist in the heavens, there certainly will not be harmony among those who study the universe. It is competing theories having to stand up to rigorous experiments that finally settles these age-0ld arguments. Then we have
Shakespeare once wrote, "to be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand". If we modify it and say, "to be honest, kind, talented, and brave as this world goes is to be one person picked out of eight billion&
Seventy-five years ago, Rachel Carson tried to teach us that the surface waters of the world's oceans link together the life of all parts of the sea. These interlocking relationships are delicately adjusted and not well understood. Too few people take seriously the consequences that might arise
The European Union says it best in their post on Mastodon today. Take a moment to read it and reflect on what they have been going through as they fight off the Russian invasion. Our role is to pressure our elected leaders to given Ukraine the weapons they need and
Emma Goldman hated imbalances in power. She saw that the rich promoted patriotism as a way to get the poor to sacrifice their own children to support the structures that keep them poor. Now we have gone one step further and we are asking those children who are risking their