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  • Good: and the Kryptonite Called Division

    The futility of our times is we keeping sharpening the blades of rage be those blades sarcastic humor, or outright disgust; aversion backed by our version of “facts” only to remain ever more mired in a dangerous deadlock. This is a spent, quicksand approach in that it has no bottom. Antagonism is simply a spinning…

  • Good, Two Trick Ponies and the Dog Days of Summer

    Do people make big decisions in the Dog Days of Summer? Not so much I think. August is summer, sand, and the lassitude of heavy heat. The one thing that does happen is repetition, for it is easier and less work not to innovate during the sweltering days of sleeping dogs. The critical problem is…

  • Good Starvation and the Sin of Distraction

    I suspect some forms of distraction could be called a moral transgression or in less letters and a shorter word, a sin. For example, the spreading of the the lies of crimes in politics while the crime actually occurs in another setting might be called a slight-of-hand sin because while these crimes dominate the headlines…

  • Good and Submitting to Nature and Wilderness

    My wife and I climbed a steep arroyo yesterday just above Ghost Ranch in New Mexico.  There were a few things for us to always consider in the back country in New Mexico.  The first is to stay together if at all possible for mutual aid. Out on the desert we were ants on boulders…

  • Good, Mortality, Poets and What Really Matters

    There are going to be dry patches in this period of history where one wakes up in the morning and it feels like there is nothing left to say. This wordless writer read about Andrea Gibson, a poet, this morning who recently died at the age of 49. She didn’t run out of words even…

  • Good: Liberal Arts, and History’s Patterns to be Broken

    This writer was once a consultant for organizations struggling for direction relative to mission.  One afternoon I was the only male sitting with a group of much younger professional women after a fruitful afternoon of organizational work.  In the post work relaxed atmosphere one the women remarked she was a graduate of a well known…

  • Good and the Slow Walk to Hell

    What is going on with immigration will redefine the history of this nation. Beckett and Kafka recognized the seeds of this problem long ago. The humane solution to the immigration problem is the administration of a rational law and funding with fidelity to move the system of justice along again with the welfare of the…

  • Good, Ethics, Breaking the Law and Country

    Ethics are mediating devices through which  humanity can prevent the rule of law from becoming a tyrant.  Every human person is infinitely complex and every human law is profoundly  limited due to that individual complexity.  The law is most definitely the hammer of the operation, but ethics is the guidance system that modifies the law’s…

  • Good, Discovering Reality, Justice, and Imagination

    This country could only end up in this set of circumstances through the lazy neglect of imagination.  The working phrase is: “Imagine how you would feel if . . . . . .?”.   The alternative to imagination, particularly in deciding how to treat fellow human beings, is to use a promoted stereotype off the shelf.  …

  • Good, Warfare, the New Lawfare, and Obscene Private Wealth

    I am aware that a vast majority of Americans could no more financially survive a protracted lawsuit than they could physically survive a bomb being dropped on their house in the middle of the night.  There are, however, a growing group of Americans so wealthy that they can successfully fend off any lawsuit or legal…