Yesterday I finished reading Violeta by Isabel Allende. About two-thirds of the way through the book, the society around the characters began to crumble. We watch a peaceful democratic republic in South America get taken over by a right-wing military dictatorship. It felt way too familiar. Allende drew
I love the above quote by Rousseau. It reminds us that many of the troubles in the world spring from self-centered psychopaths trying to claim ownership of things that should be the property of all. This morning the European Football Association "pulled up the stakes and filled in
If only all the insanity of the current administration was as harmless as a mislabeled map and a botched pool upgrade. Then we could look on all of this like Hermann Hesse's quote suggests, as "some occasion for laughter and mockery".
A person who hasn't been paying much attention to the right's obsession with COVID mitigation measures might reasonably wonder why Dr. Fauci would invoke the 5th Amendment more than 100 times when questioned by Congress. But when we look a little deeper we realize the truth
It is never a good sign when I am using two Rachel Carson quotes in the same week, but I must take time today to scream into the void about the dangers of our current administration. There were some (www.youtube.com/@MyTeacherFace) who tried to warn us about what
Of course it was the physics teacher. It was always going to the be the physics teacher. We can't stand corruption, we can't stand bullshit, we won't stand by quietly while those in power are trying to gaslight the people, and we sure won&
Rachel Carson is often credited with helping to wake Americans up to the environmental damage that was being done to the planet in the name of progress. One of the things she tried to get people to understand is that, in the long run, the destruction of a species'
Isabel Allende's new novel is describing conditions in an unnamed South American country in 1920, but it could just as easily be used to talk about the current conditions in the countries currently being hit by the Ebola outbreak. As terrible as the virus might be, it is
Yesterday we learned of dreams crushed, opportunities lost, and future benefits for our society unrealized just because students came from families that lacked wealth. This is the type of news that infuriated W.E.B. DuBois and should anger us all. As the comment section for the article shows, too
The only thing worse than having to watch Fonzi jump the shark on water skis was having to watch it a second time at the end of July as networks went with summer re-runs. It seems like the news media is taking a play from the days before cable
Recently, Fredrik Backman wrote that when rich people sleep outdoors, it isn't homelessness, it's camping! Now, in many parts of the country, when homeless people camp outdoors, it isn't camping, it's a felony! In Tennessee, the maximum penalty is 6 years in
Workers shouldn't have to pray that they won't be killed at their jobs. We are no longer in Dickensian London. We must push our lawmakers to stop rolling back workplace safety regulations and demand judges stop allowing companies to get away with homicide just because protecting