July 31, 2026

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".

July 30, 2026

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

July 29, 2026

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

July 28, 2026

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&

July 27, 2026

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'

July 26, 2026

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

June 25, 2026

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

July 24, 2026

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

July 23, 2026

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

July 22, 2026

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

July 21, 2026

Fox News and its older viewers are puzzled by the younger generation's rejection of the status quo. Shirley Chisholm laid it out clearly during a similar youth movement that emerged in the late 60's and early 70's. Older generations have a tendency to close

July 20, 2026

Over 100 years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois was writing for the liberation of all oppressed peoples and making no distinction based on gender. He saw that the same forces that were holding back Black men we also holding back women of all races. During these last hundred years,