You DO Have a Voice
A reader commented that she loved the quote of Henry Kissinger that I used in a recent post: “If it weren’t for the wrath of the American people about our presence in Vietnam, we’d STILL BE THERE.”...
View ArticleSocial Critic Noam Chomsky on Climate Change
Because Noam Chomsky is so far out of the mainstream discussion, I believe this post may be the first of our 3000+ in which I’ve quoted this American linguist, philosopher, logician, cognitive...
View ArticleAre We Headed for Environmental Catastrophe?
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo often derides my concern for our civilization’s future. In response to my post: Will We Survive Long Enough To Enjoy the Fruits of Science? he writes, “Doom, doom, doom I...
View ArticleThe Dialectic: Activism Blossoms Under the Trump Presidency
This isn’t an original thought, but it’s a good one. It was expressed yesterday by the Governor of Vermont, who said something like, “The only good thing about the Trump presidency is that it has...
View ArticleWhat If My Conspiracy Theory Friend Is Right?
We all like to think that we’re objective and rational in our thinking, and that, if we were presented with sufficient evidence, we’d change even our most entrenched beliefs and admit that we’d been...
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