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
George Orwell warns us that one of the dreadful effects of war is that it dehumanizes us; we forget that the people being killed on the other side of the war are human beings who, like ourselves, have hopes, dreams, faults, and special characteristics that make us loved by those
Being only a few weeks away from the release of the theatrical version of Project Hail Mary, I thought today would make a good day to use the book as the source for the quote of the day. In this quote we get a sense of how quickly people adapt
It doesn't matter if it was deliberate of not, this cannot be undone. Over 100 children between the ages of 7 and 12 killed in an instant. The accounts of how this occurred are heartbreaking. If anyone tries to tell you this is just colateral damage and it
Israel, Iran, and the United States. Leaders with, we are told, three different faiths, but all share the idea that they are religious as they crack down on peaceful protests, kill children, and spew hate. How can they be both cruel and religious? In his latest book, Salman Rushdie includes
We drop bombs on anyone we want, including school children, with no pretense of legal justification. We ban companies that don't want to participate in the inhumanity from doing any business with the American government based on nothing more than the fiat of our president. We ignore the
Kurt Vonnegut saw where we were headed decades ahead of time. Unfortunately, people in power ignored his warning that we had made our society so isolating on the individual that many will turn away from science and reason just to find a sense of community in the throes of charismatic