Resistance Is Necessary

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  • Seriously? Absurdity R Us…

    I have been ranting about income disparity for years. (I encourage my denomination, the United Church of Christ, to have a conversation about poverty and economics, By the way). I…


  • All I Want For Some Christmas Is A New Deering

    This  Piece Has Been Coming For A Long Time… I have spoken of Deering frequently in these pages — mostly about people who have gone there, been touched by the place,…


  • A New Tack: What DOES Government Do?

    I hate it when friends fight. A day or two ago, I posted on Facebook something about Obamacare and the insurance companies response to it. People are still fighting about…


  • We Have Failed Our Children

    I just saw two brothers in my office this evening who had — between them, in a week — pushed a kid, accidentally slammed a kid’s hand in a locker,…


  • On Civil Discourse

    My friends Sean and Bob and I got into it yesterday about politics on my blog. In the end, I felt battered and exhausted, and I don’t think that was,…


  • How To Fix This Debt Ceiling/ Shutdown Thing

    I have already begun to see petitions for having people arrested for sedition after this latest shutdown. This is one way of handling this last crisis, but I’m done with…


  • An Ethic of Life.

    I was listening to NPR this morning on the way to the train and there was a long piece about the Syrian government possibly using Sarin gas on its opposition…


  • I Don’t Care What You Think, People Are Hungry (Poor, Hurt, In Trouble…)

    Once again, I was reading the Huffington Post, and once again, some bigot in government said that people who use welfare or food stamps or some program or other are…


  • Random! (Or maybe not) Thoughts at 10,000 hits…

    Random! (Or maybe not) Thoughts at 10,000 hits… As of this morning on my way to work, I finally achieved 10,000 hits (views) on my blog. I say “finally” because…


  • Bad Lessons

    With one sentence, it was over. “We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty”. I don’t know what to say about the end of the Trayvon Martin case. Mr. Zimmerman…


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