More than 50 years ago, Rachel Carson did her best to wake the country up to what we were doing to our environment. There is no doubt that she was successful in getting Americans from all parts of the political spectrum to understand the dangers that unchecked capitalism posed to
Over 50 years ago, the great Shirley Chisholm said the obvious, "abortion is a fact of life. Women will have them; they always have and always will". Today's NPR article, once again, shows the truth of her statement. I just don't understand why it
I saw a link to this on Mastodon and wanted to share it. I highly encourage you to read the whole thing, but this paragraph will give you a flavor of the insanity that we are faced with on a daily basis. None us know if this is all going
Robert Mueller spent his life serving this country, and now, when he dies, the president says "Good, I'm glad he's dead". Well, I think many of us will feel the same thing in the not too distance future but in regards to another public
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
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
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