Today's death of Ted Turner makes me want to highlight how divorce, when done right, can be a positive experience for those involved. Sometimes a married couple just grow apart and the individual people involved just need to go their separate ways to achieve new goals that have
I am firmly on team Einstein when it comes to the purpose of education. Going to college is not about learning the skills that will make you useful to the ambitions of Mark Fuckerberg or Elmo Musk, but instead it is about helping you develop "a sense of responsibility
In the 1920s Hermann Hesse watched as world leaders "strain every nerve, and with success, to get the next war going". At the same time much of the population goes on with their lives as if it is business as usual, they "dance the fox trot, earn
Timothy Snyder reminds us that "Freedom requires a positive presence, not a malign neglect". So on this World Press Freedom Day we need to remind ourselves of the actions that we can take to help preserve the free press rather than let it die of malign neglect. Subscribe
This sounds wonderful for the people of New Mexico. How can New Jersey piss him off enough that we to get banned too? Today's quote of the day talks about the disconnect between a person's real life and the myth that they culture about their life
Richard Wright poses a question that many of us who care about making the world a better place have asked. "Were there not somewhere in this world rebels with whom we can feel at home?...[people] who had fought their way through the many veils of illusion [imposed on
Yesterday the Supreme Court pushed the country back toward the Jim Crow era. They are setting the stage for a majority white state to gerrymander their congressional districts to make sure minority voters get no voice in the federal and state governments. Once again we could see monies and resources
It is looking like those who claim "States' Rights" whenever they want to take away our bodily autonomy now claim the states have no right to inform you about chemicals that might kill you. We need to take up the mantle of Rachel Carson and demand that
Jimmy Kimmel made a JOKE about the president's health and the state of his marriage. During the McCarthy Madness in the 1950's Richard Wright wrote, "If you lived in Russia and made such a statement, they would shoot you; and if you lived in America
The great Carl Sagan reminds us that the only way we can separate deep insights from deep nonsense is through the process of skeptical scrutiny. The biggest problem with Donald Trump is that his ego is such that he cannot allow any challenges to his ideas or actions, and hence
There is no doubt that this week's visit by Charles and Camilla will be filled with pomp and pageantry, with fancy clothes and all the trappings of wealth. But don't allow yourself to be taken in by this show. As Mark Twain reminds us, "Without
Margaret Atwood has empathy for those being crushed by the pressure of society and the arbitrary rules that are applied to those with the least power. She tells us "It can put a lot of pressure on a person to be told they need to be strong". But