Monday, June 26, 2017
Clouds and the Power Elite
Clouds are glorious, I love clouds seen from the ground, from a plane window, And look, here are all these new clouds to learn Latin names of!...
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Friday, June 23, 2017
When politics gets me down...
I am able to chuckle over the thing I posted about before, about how 'Millennials' are to blame for huge companies like certain fast-food chains and department stores feeling the pinch, for home-buying to be declining... All those markets are shifting because many of us, not just the so-called...
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
The Shadow-side vs The Golden Age
In these horrendous times when human misery and violence and venality seem to be overwhelming forces in so many lives, I look back through time seeking that elusive Golden Age that has been dreamed of, beieved in, sought a return to... Yet, when in history has there ever really been a time like...
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Friday, June 16, 2017
Action Figures
Kids used to play with Star Wars action figures, all sorts of other fantasy/sci fi/comic book characters. Now, you can get Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren action figures, I think I have seen a Trump doll, too... Imagine the whole Congress Collection of action figures... Imagine kids playing...
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Sunday, June 11, 2017
The struggle continues...
This week, a NY Court of Appeals denied habeus corpus relief to a pair of chimpanzees that have been kept for years in facilities for medical research, deprived of anything like a natural chimpanzee life of social companionship and a more natural environment. Suits of this nature are currently being...
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Friday, June 9, 2017
Mating up
How do men and women ever get together? I've been thinking about it for years, maybe since my Dad read aloud to us after dinner from the writings of James Thurber who had a great deal to say in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, about the War Between the Sexes. Every culture has its undercurrents of social...
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Wednesday, June 7, 2017
I am so not surprised this is happening
I read this article... http://www.businessinsider.com/baby-boomers-caused-millennials-destructive-spending-habits-2017-6 Wow... Millennials are arrogantly having better taste than to eat at Applebees, have the cheek to choose to support small-owner businesses over big corporate chains, and are...
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Monday, June 5, 2017
Lions and tigers and leopards, oh my!
With the demise of the Ringling Brothers Circus, their elephants have been 'retired' to a breeding compound they call a refuge, saying it is good for the elephants. Now, 15 big cats are scheduled to go to Germany to another circus along with their owner/trainer, and he must get clearance from the US...
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Thursday, June 1, 2017
Trump does the totally expected
So it comes down to us, again... Just because Trump will not hold his own and his pals' businesses accountable for global warming, it doesn't mean we can't individually, voluntarily cut back on our driving, turn out lights, recycle, be generally more responsible for our ecological impact on the...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Here is a reading challenge...
This takes a while to read, but if you are mystified by how this segment of America thinks and behaves, if you have any interest in how to reach in and effect any change, in what can and can't work to bring light into this dark place, then this is a most useful article from someone who came out of...
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