September 10, 2026

Today's quote is for C. Kirk. This week we mark the anniversary of a day the world will never forget: the first airing of Star Trek on National TV on this week in 1966. It was then the world was introduced to Captain Kirk and all the other brilliant characters who inhabited the world of the future. One of the main messages of the show was strength through diversity, and space was just the backdrop to teach this message to an audience that was raised in Jim Crow America.

The actor who played Kirk got to visit space a few years ago and he came back with a message that Thoreau tried to teach us over a hundred and fifty years ago. The real heaven is under our feet and it is the thing we need to treasure and take care of now and forever.

October 9, 2026

With yesterday's announcement by the Pentagon that they will livestream a firing squad execution it seems we have now ticked off all the things on Orwell's list. I guess this shows that the decay of civilization is complete. Imprisonment without trial (we did him one better

October 8, 2026

Watching an obviously racist and fascist government disappearing people to uncertain fates abroad makes me want to do everything in my power to halt it. The problem is, I am lost as to what power I have to push back. I see people angry over gas and food prices, but

October 7, 2026

Malala tells us that not a day goes by that we don't see or hear something about the horrors that women and girls are living through. But no matter how painful these stories might be, we should never scroll past them. For, if nothing else, we can be

October 6, 2026

At some point we all start getting a little freaked out about the number we have to say when telling someone our ages. At 70, Ben Franklin decided to start counting backwards. I am not going to be that extreme, but today I turn fifty-ten. I will continue this

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