April 6, 2026

Mark Twain best expressed the feelings I had when I saw MTG express outrage to Trump's threats to Iran. I love that she didn't just call out Trump but also all of his enablers. And then, to top it off, she went on to show concern

April 5, 2026

Today's Easter Prayer comes to us from W.E.B. DuBois who asked "The good Lord to deliver us from a world where everybody looks like his neighbor and thinks like his neighbor and is like his neighbor".

April 4, 2026

With the astronauts still days away from reaching the moon, we are already getting fantastic pictures of our home planet. As with every picture of the Earth from space, we see what a fragile, interconnected planet we are living on. Yet, in our short-sighted and selfish actions we are

April 3, 2026

"Reporters are heroes of our time", for without them we would not know truth and without truth there is no informed democracy. Reading about Shelly Kittleson is a humbling experience as we realize just how much some of our fellow humans are willing to risk to keep us

April 2, 2026

In his book, Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. describes the feelings of a character who is going out in public for the first time, dressed as a woman. He writes, "He felt uninhibited and beautiful and lovable and suddenly free". These are feelings we should want all

April 1, 2026

I understand where Virginia Woolf was coming from when she wrote that "Good books are desirable..., even if [the authors] show every variety of depravity". I have no doubt that every single author I quote has some aspects of their character that I would reject in real life

March 31, 2026

According to her daughter, Marie Curie was not a fan of putting students into traditional school settings. She thought it was "barbarous...to steal innumerable sterile 'hours of attendance' from them at a age where they should be running free" Now in Bolivia they have mandated

March 30, 2026

Paraphrasing Thoreau is the best way to describe Pete Hegseth: "You talk of heaven but you disgrace the Earth". Today's Philadelphia Inquirer had a story with very mellow headline: "Hegseth's assertive faith breaks norms, critics say". But as we read the story

March 29, 2026

At the same time Charles Darwin was writing his The Descent of Man, Mikhail Bakunin was proudly telling us that what set our first ancestors apart from other animals was our Power to Think and our Desire to Rebel. These two defining traits have never been needed more. Look at

March 28, 2026 (No Kings Day)

Don't just go out to protest today and then come home thinking that you accomplished something. Instead, use these gatherings to make connections with like-minded groups and individuals. At the end of the day, make sure you have something to turn your energies to, a distinctly defined

March 27, 2026

Thomas Paine said it best, "NO KINGS"!! Make sure you get out to show your support for one of our founding principles this Saturday. If you are in the South Jersey area, please consider coming to the NK3 rally in Camden: https://crinj.org/nk3/ If you are

March 26, 2026

Charles Dickens wrote the book Hard Times 174 years ago. In it, he was making fun of people who thought that children were empty vessels to be crammed full of facts. He modeled an education system in which the teachers were to be similar to machinery on a factory floor