Category: Big thoughts
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What’s up with Republicans and Russia?
What’s up with Republicans & Russia nowadays? The GOP used to base their identity on opposing the Evil Empire; now they’re all like, “Please Mr Putin, if you scratch our back, we’ll scratch yours.” Republican kowtowing to Putin lately has reached absurd proportions. We had Republican media mascot Tucker Carlson…
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Forgive them, for they know what they do
I’m not much of a Bible guy, but I just saw someone online saying, “Forgive them, for they know what they do.” My first thought was, “Did you mean to include the word ‘not’ in there?” Then I realized the line was a perfect encapsulation of the contradictions in right-wing…
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Unfamiliar consequences for Teflon Don
I remember in the ‘80s when people would call Ronald Reagan “Teflon Ron” because negative press would never stick to him. Ah, the good old days… Teflon Ron couldn’t hold a scandal candle to Teflon Don (aka Mafia Don), who not only survives more scandals than Reagan could have dreamed…
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Seeking sense from the senseless
After lifetime of trying to understand stuff, I’m not sure I understand anything anything anymore. Is it just me? I devoted six years of college to understanding American society from a systems perspective, and then another 40 years learning about social change from a grassroots perspective, as a participant-observer in…
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Make Earth Cool Again
Made a meme of words from James Koehnline and an Earth image from NASA in 2012. We need to make Earth cool again in more ways than one. Let’s do it. Some people might object to this meme as deriving from and evoking a horrible person with a horrible slogan…
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Guns & cars & rules, oh my!
I’m not a big fan of either guns or cars. I believe both produce a lot of unnecessary harm in our world (and our country, specifically). But I’m realistic — I know that neither one is going away any time soon. Certainly not here in the good old US of…
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