Letter to FCC's Chariman Wheeler on E-quality.
Thanks to the prompts provided by KOS, I crafted the following letter to the FCC's Chairman Wheeler with regard to creating high speed internet lanes. I am learning, ever so slowly, what it means to...
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Gun Culture and Xenophobia: Don't Get Caught in the Middle
Researchers Descended Upon by Second Amendment Border Vigilantes
View ArticleForty-Two Republican Senators Commemorate September 11th by Voting in Favor...
* Forty-Two Republican Senators Commemorated September 11 by Voting to Keep Corporate Money Flowing (by Way of Citizens United) to Washington Politicians. * Election Day Arrives in Fifty-Two Days.
View ArticleA well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,...
Darren Wilson shoots Michael Brown.Eric Matthew Frein shoots Bryon Dickson.Don Charles Spirit shoots Sarah Lorraine Spirit, Kaleb Kuhlmann, Kylie Kuhlmann, Jonathan Kuhlmann, Destiny Stewart, Brandon...
View ArticleFog of War: Cops Shoot Us; Ebola Researchers Sing Together
Whether fighting gun violence, corporate abuses, global warming, or disease, we must never despair. Hope, solidarity, creativity, and love all help us hold fast. As Harvard professor and researcher...
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White History Month in Joisey
I live in New Jersey where Governor Christie has just given Exxon a pass on $8,650,000,000 in potential punitive damages and where a couple of guys with different interests settled a conflict over a...
View ArticleObama Versus Forty-Seven-Plus Hawks on the Hill
Opportunities for diplomacy with Iran still remain, if Washington exerts the political will to pursue them.
View ArticleThe Future 2008 Hiding Inside the Republican Budget and the TPP
Crash and burn baby. Crash and burn.
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Crowd Spontaneously Applauds Sanders
Awaiting the Pope's arrival. West Lawn of the Capitol, September 24, 2015. It was Thursday, and I was standing with my better half, Beth, on the West Lawn of the Capitol Building awaiting Pope...
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GOPFUBAR
What do Facebook, National Geographic, Malala Yousafzai, Marco Rubio, Lady Gaga, Fox News, Robert Reich, and the Word "Jigaboo" all have in common? Well, this article for one. And GOPFUBAR, for two. I...
View ArticleSurviving Gun Lust: The Body Keeps Score
This may have happened, but it did not happen to me. The scary part is, it may happen to you:So, two months ago my daughter Clare was in that multiplex at the mall. She'd been dating this boy for a...
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When Do Conservatives Call for a Boycott?
Rather than boycott Burger King when the company chose to avoid paying some U.S. taxes by headquartering in Canada, extreme conservatives now want to boycott because Burger King has stopped selling...
View ArticleChristmas Morning, 2015
We too naturally tend to fight darkness with darkness rather than light.Our response to evil, rather than a “liberal” capitulation to a universal humanism which has no basis in reality, should be only...
View ArticleA Letter of Sorts to Bernie Sanders, Future President of the United States of...
#BernieSanders#DemDebate The art of rhetoric goes back to the days of Greece and Rome. Aristotle taught that skilled rhetoricians will master a balanced presentation, employing personal ethics,...
View ArticleThe Clintons' Corporate Connections Ensure that They Are Incapable of Leading...
Add Exxon (over $1mil to the Clinton Foundation) who is being investigated by the Justice Dept. for concealing evidence about climate change, and JP Morgan ($450k for speeches) to the list of...
View ArticleSilence of Six Thousand Four Hundred & One Lambs
I like to begin every morning, cup of coffee in hand, by reading an entry from one of Thomas Merton's journals. I consider Merton a spiritual friend. I never know where one of his entries will take me....
View ArticleThinking on Thinking and Current Electoral Themes
I've been sitting with two ideas. These touch on 1. the ongoing electoral process and on 2. the intense passions that move us to hunker down and cling to what we decide is best. If nothing else, these...
View ArticleWe Threw Away the Best of Ourselves when We Refused a Place to Bernie...
A hero is a peculiar kind of human. Heroes draw people together. A hero inspires confidence in those he touches. Heroes are closely aligned with what we generally recognize as true and enduring....
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Democrats Answer Republican Inaction with France's "LAW OF SUSPECTS" in...
We can see operating in the current Democratic backlash against Republican inaction on common sense gun legislation, that within any "backlash" there lies an inherent danger--the danger that any...
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