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
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"
As we watch the Middle East descend into Chaos, just a few weeks after overthrowing the government of Venezuela in the hopes of getting a leader more likely to allow us to tap their oil reserves, it is a good day to bring up this quote from Kurt Vonnegut.
The most interesting character in Mark Twain's The Gilded Age is a young woman living in Philadelphia who is determined to become a doctor. When I first read this book, I was fascinated by the portrayal of this person and I was curious how much of this was
Isabel Allende tells us there is no feminism without noise, but sometimes that noise comes in the form of silence when society demands compliance. Compare the two headlines below and you can see that societies all around the world place similar expectations on women. The degree of enforcement varies, but
It is insane that when someone like Michelle Obama or Che Guevara talks about the importance of good nutrition they are called Communists by people on the right, but when Robert F'ing Kennedy says it, it is somehow revolutionary. Way back in the early 1950s Che was talking
In a day with constant breaking news, I needed to include this quote from Kurt Vonnegut. Although Slaughterhouse-Five was written 2 years before she was even born, he seemed to have captured the energy and vibes that had been coming off Kristi Noem for the last 13 months.
To make matters worse, the "warship" that we sunk was not out on hostile maneuvers, but was heading home from an international fleet review in India. There are reports that the ship was unarmed and it definitely posed no threat to America or the submarine that hit it