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Good, the American Heart, and True Greatness:
This is Sunday so this day this writer will say good things about a good person. Dolly Parton was not at the center of my own life and heart across her life time, but I was always fascinated by my… Continue reading
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Good, Immigration and the Ending of Innocence in America
In case you are not paying attention, the immigration arrests have morphed into a kind of crude harvest machine seemingly lacking any legal ground and based on some other criteria than law. Is it race, color, accent? We have no… Continue reading
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Good, Greatness, Grandiosity, and Insulting the Greatest Generation.
To call the modern clickity-click digital paralyzing of economies and small businesses across the globe an equivalent to WWII D day on Normandy beaches is an insult to the soldiers, leaders, and American citizens who pulled off one of the… Continue reading
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Good, and the Ease of Taking lives Verses the Cost of Saving Lives.
The low cost ease of taking a life with a bullet serves to contrast the high cost and hard work of saving that same life in the ER. The ease and cost of building an inexpensive, life stealing, destructive bombs… Continue reading
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Good, Cult, and America’s Broken Paradigm
This writer has written about cults off and on in America and yes we are a culture infected with cult, but cult is not the bottom of our problems; merely a symptom. Cults come and go and are usually time… Continue reading
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Good and Three C’s in Lasting Hard Times: An Uncredentialed Homily for a Stuggle
The three Cs mental health in lasting hard times are Connection, Caring, and Comedy. If you are not formally diagnosed in these profoundly difficult days, for the average American, these three Cs add ballast to your boat in the storm… Continue reading
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Good and Playing a Losing Hand against a Cheater
This writer learned early in his career if you don’t have the votes you don’t have the power no matter what kind of rhetoric you can marshal. In the games of cards one can almost feel a losing hand as… Continue reading
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Good, Jelly Beans, AI, and The Odyssey
I can remember my love of jelly beans as a child. The more the better was my approach. This writer can also remember the stomach aches when he got more than he was allowed, acquired through nefarious means. As I… Continue reading
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Good and Science in Handcuffs
Many of us, including myself are alive on this planet today thanks to the work of science. Never in this nation’s history has science ever been anything but the frontier of human knowledge. Never that is until this administration that… Continue reading
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Good, the Brown Dandelion, and a Bedeviled Culture of Engineered Hatred
On a walk around a lake the other day this writer came upon a very young girl about 5 years old offering a look at her brown sort of tired dandelion to any walker coming by. Her precious flower was… Continue reading