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Good, “My Own Morality” and the Morality of Plurality
Our elected President has declared when asked about the limits to his power that his limits were “my own morality”. Perhaps clever, but it turned out to be an accidental statement of truth rare as that may be from that source. The flaw of course is that one person does not make a morality. Morality…
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Good, Dark Money and the Vampires of Future
The current Administration’s unprecedented orgy of debt accumulation, assault on the value of the dollar, and obsession with bitcoin should not strike anyone as subtle. We, in the this generation, have grown up with the dollar as the globe’s benchmark currency. In the past the fiscal crises of the United States we have triggered a…
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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 own grudging respect for her talent, voice, generosity, courage and complete unapologetic uniqueness. Until she…
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Good and Lake Ontario is Lake Ontario is Lake Ontario is . . . .
The Executive Order is not a birch paddle one can use to spank Nations. Now our volatile President thinks he can change the names of our beloved Great Lakes with a piece of paper because he is miffed. Maybe if climate change grinds on he will change the name of Planet Earth itself to Planet…
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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 idea. The New York Times reports arrests of people married to US citizens, people with…
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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 greatest military defensive moves in world history. The contemporary politicians who use this comparison to…
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Good and Trusting the Broken Word
The world is beginning to grasp that there is no “deal” with the United States because this administration has broken international trust and America is no longer perceived as a reliable partner for trade or national security. Lessons children learn in grade school are being brought home on an international scale to adults who should…
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Good and the Mind’s Pardon: Words Better than Mine: Naomi Shihab Nye
Its Sunday and this poet laureate has words that might help you truly worship that, who, or what your tradition instructs. Excerpt from Valentine for Earnest Mann by Noami Shihab Nye . . . Once I knew a man who gave his wife two skunks for a valentine He couldn’t understand why she was crying “I…
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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 is now being highlighted against the high cost of the defensive systems that prevent the…
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Good Sociopathy and Ungrounded Intelligence (UI)
What you might ask is Ungrounded Intelligence or UI. Another term for this form of intelligence could be inorganic intelligence. For this short posting Ungrounded Intelligence is intelligence disconnected from any form of organic life. A crow is an intelligent bird but the birds intelligence is intimately integrated into its efforts to survive, propagate, form…
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