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Nightmare

January 7, 2022November 20, 2022

Imagine it. It’s the worst-case scenario for some people. Immigrants of different skin color stream across an unprotected border, searching for a better life. With

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Human Experience

If you want peace

May 11, 2022May 12, 2022

(image in the public domain, downloaded from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_VI#/media/File:Pius_XII_with_Monsignor_Montini.jpg) When Pope Paul VI opined “If you want peace, work for justice”, I am sure that he

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Mind

Big American Lie

December 15, 2021December 15, 2021

Americans have a dangerously inflated view of their own health care system. Our politicians lie to us and leverage our reptilian tribal brains by telling

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Mind

We Are Failing as a Nation. We Are Failing as a Species.

November 16, 2021November 16, 2021

Global warming is unabated. The fourth wave of COVID infections beginning in July 2021was completely discretionary: an epidemic of the un-vaxxed. It is still amazingly

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Duty/Responsibility Mind

Twenty First Century Duty

February 6, 2021August 17, 2021

When JFK spoke the words “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” an entire nation understood.

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Global Warming and Capitalism

July 3, 2021August 17, 2021
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Failing one another

August 7, 2021August 17, 2021

The cover of USA Today ran the following headline yesterday: “We are failing each other”. I have to say that I disagree. The responsibility for

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Mind

Lobotomy

December 27, 2020January 1, 2021

How did People magazine displace Marat/Sade?

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Mind

Trump and the Courts

November 17, 2020January 1, 2021

Trump’s voter fraud lawsuits have all failed. This underscores one fundamental fact about Trump. While his misinformation and lies can sway the gullible and the

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