This American Angst I suppose it began on September 11th. In fact, I know it did. It was the day I realized the whole world had changed, not just my own. A sense of vulnerability never felt in my lifetime emerged, and hasn’t left since. As a baby boomer…
For decades, billionaires David and Charles Koch have secretly been trying to remake our government and our society in their radical conservative image. It appears that they want to impose their values on 300 million Americans, indeed affecting the entire world’s population. They don’t intend to do this through…
"Legalize, regulate, and tax it. Criminalization is a dead end, it always had been." - Jesse
Most of you have all heard the saying or its paraphrase, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” words actually written by George Santayana. This concept has a special meaning now when special interests – those with an agenda – try to guide us in…
The 90s: twenty mass power outages a year, Today we have a hundred, I fear. Extreme weather events, while Congress snores, And down a proverbial rat hole, some $50 billion pours. A century ago, we funded progress and beyond, And laid power grid foundations -- now Congress yawns…
W.E.B Du Bois was a brilliant man. He was an important contributing factor to the new social science named sociology and one of the greatest writers of the African American experience. He introduced the concept of “Double Consciousness”, the way that African Americans viewed themselves, individually and as a…
Planet Earth is inhabited by a Type 0 civilization, one which gorges on fossil fuels for energy, ideologically wants to retreat to the past, and fearfully searches for threatening shadows. We are stumbling toward a Type I civilization, considering the use of solar power, wind power, and other renewable…
I shouldn’t get so bent out of shape over a politician’s or a political party’s lack of intelligent decision-making, decisions which ignore past behavior of those you need to deal with. Harry Reid ‘s decision not to pursue real filibuster reform is such a naïve, self-serving decision. It is…
One of mankind’s greatest intellectual triumphs is its discovery of a love of wisdom commonly known as Philosophy. Unfortunately, especially in the United States, any mention of the term solicits a roll of the eyes and an insult about an ivory tower or some scatterbrained professor with mismatched socks.…
Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s ruthless ruler before WWII, said, “I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how, but what is extremely important is this – who will count the votes, and how.” Republicans have tried the voting angle, limiting voting for the opponents,…