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Wolf, Ram, and Hart: Playing Politics For Centuries
The group in the title is from the TV Series “Angel”, a show spawned from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They are the legal team for The Big Bad — the shiny suits that work evil at it’s most primal. They are, of course, fictional, being from a TV series and all, but sometimes I wonder……
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Bernie in Hartford: Speaking Kindness To Power
Bernie Sanders is the kindest “radical” I have ever heard speak. I suspect that’s what makes him scary to The Powers That Be — the extremely wealthy and the extremely powerful who make up 1/10th of 1 percent or 1 percent of America today. Contrary to Larry David’s Saturday Night Live impersonation, today at…
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“Craftspersonship” — for Michelle
This morning, my wife went off on a rant about supporters of Bernie Sanders who say they won’t vote for Hillary Clinton if she gets the party’s nomination/if Bernie doesn’t get it. She and I are different in our worldviews, and she knows an incredible amount about capitalism, world markets, Rousseau, fairness and globalization than…
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Martin The Forgotten?
April 4, 2016 48 years ago today, Martin Luther King was shot in Memphis, Tennessee. Sometime between then and now, all of the things that he was are gone from general society, with the possible exception of a Black leader in America. Martin was a daring peacemaker. Martin’s “peace” looked like “rabble rousing” at the…
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We Have Choices
(For Em, who embodies this idea). My wife and I were a bit overwhelmed this morning by all of the news and people’s responses to it. Terrorism in Belgium, elections in America, Americans talking to Cubans, Americans talking about Americans talking to Cubans. When it gets like this, I tend to fall back into “what…
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Dysfunctional Is As Dysfunctional Does…
“A nation divided against itself can not stand” — Abraham Lincoln Wow. The Republican Party is falling apart. Actually, the insane wing of the Republican Party is falling apart. They presently have a candidate running who is doing better than they expected, and yet he is their candidate. When is doing better than expected a…
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Kesha and “The Girl In The Book”
My daughters often listen to music that I can’t imagine listening to, sometimes with lyrics I can’t imagine or don’t approve of, but — after sharing my distaste (and I always do), their rolling their eyes — they continue to listen to it. I have parented, they have been kids, and it’s their music. I…
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Man’s Inhumanity To Man…
7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 9 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’” Matthew 15:7-9 Revised Standard Version (RSV) About the language: When I was a kid, “man’s inhumanity to…
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We Need to Reign In Deadly Force…
There has been some interesting news lately regarding the rash of police shootings of citizens that plagued our country in 2015. In a study of Chicago police and a wider policing, many of the police who have killed people recently have a history of abusing their power. That means that fewer police are actually involved…
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No, they don’t.
If ever there was a societal response to Black Lives Matter, it came today. Tamir Rice, a young Black boy was killed by a police officer with no discussion because he was waving a possibly real toy gun around in a park and police were called. Today, after legal analysis, the policeman was fund not…
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