Yesterday I saw a post from the National Association of Black Geoscientists and it made me think of something I once read in a book by W.E.B. DuBois. He was talking about how America has a history of discouraging and murdering ability when that talent is present in
On February 14, 1776, just across the river from where I now sit, Thomas Paine wrote an introduction to a new version to Common Sense. In it he said that the cause of America is the cause of all mankind. A place where the oppressed from all around the world
We are hearing from insiders in the AI space who are realizing that their work is going to be a major disruption to human society. People who have spent years developing skills that made them useful, employable, and capable of supporting their families are going to be made obsolete in
Every day, every damn day. Every day we get news of corruption at the highest levels of government. Every day we hear about some new depravity among those whose wealth gives them an outsized influence in our society. Every day there is news of war or threats of war. And
Joseph Heller reminds us that Olympic medals and tennis trophies are absolutely meaningless. They simply signify that the winner was able to do something that is no benefit to anyone, but he does it better than anyone else on the planet. And that is why the real winner of this
Over 2000 years ago, Sophocles told us the world was full of wonders, but nothing so wonderful and so terrible as man. We are capable of so much, but if we don't have internal and external restraints, we can be the source of the worst actions that occur
The Philadelphia Inquierer tells us that 85,000 people have dropped their health care in Pa, but a better description would be that 85,000 people were priced out of their health care in Pennsylvania. They decided the only option for surviving the year is the roll the dice that
This extra quote of the day is from Line of Duty and it goes out to Ghislaine Maxwell or anyone else with first hand knowledge of the sleazy world of Jeffery Epstein.
The Sunday Philadelphia Inquierer devoted the entire opinion section to the importance of studying Black History. It began with a quote from W.E.B DuBois who was instrumental in the early movement to study Black history in America. In the late 1800s, DuBois, as a young man, conducted a
Last year the Philadelphia world was filled with Joy, Happiness, and the expectation that we would be on top of the world forever. Now we watch other cities compete for the Super Bowl and we look at all of our sports teams in some degree or other of disarray. Mark
In yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer the question was posed, "Is Protest Music Coming Back?". And to that Grace Petrie and I answer it has never gone away. There have been so many great protest singers this millennium who decried the wars in the Middle East, the treatment
We all know the evil that resides within the president's heart, but sometime there are moments where even members of his own cult (party) are not able to deny it. Yesterday there was such a moment. As Ta-Nehisi Coates tells us there are some moments where all the