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  • Good and When Moral Distress becomes Fatal

    In this writers home state 21,000 people could lose medicaid services thanks to the new federal legislation. It can’t be that different in other states. Forget red state and blue state and lets just think in terms of dead or alive. Forget whatever bread crumb of a tax break that new federal budget might give…

  • Good, Waiting for Godot , and Unlikely Strangers

    Somehow Samual Becket’s Play “Waiting for Godot” keeps percolating up as I watch the inevitability of this political season unfold. Whatever one thinks of our current President, the nation such as it is, and its Supreme Court, have conceded the keys of power to him. One side of the voter’s debate accuses the other of…

  • Good and When a Detention Facility becomes a Concentration Camp

    Detention has become a euphemism for concentration.  Facility has become a euphemism for prison camp.  With a goal of 3,000 immigration arrests a day this administration is, intentionally or not, setting, the stage for concentration camps in America.  This is something we haven’t seen since World War II and even then the Japanese camps were…

  • Good, Faux and True Authenticity, and Survival

    One of our political parties is looking at the attribute ‘authenticity’ to strengthen their political approach. The challenge with authenticity is that it is nearly impossible to fake or predict. Our current leader is probably where he is because he is who he is and acts like it. He is very predictable if you don’t…

  • Good , Grief, Funerals in Minnesota, and the Art of Rage

    This was written a few days before the assassinations in Minnesota so I will post it lest we forget too soon.  Two ways to accomplish change:  create a compelling vision with a plan, or simply engineer mass rage.  The second option is pretty much what the current stage masters of American history are working on. …

  • Good, Empathy, Conscience and War

    This writer scans the news for actual facts and waits for the information to either contradict or confirm existing versions of what might be true. This morning of course, the headlines screamed WAR. And below that prospect were the news stories that were lined up to exist under a less demanding headline. Stories about the…

  • Good and What is Deeper than Opportunism?

    Capitalism and the American system take heavy criticism for being opportunistic.  Some of that criticism is profoundly merited and some slightly hypocritical.  We all tend to love opportunity when it serves our cause.   The legal system is being exploited and pilloried on similar grounds.  We love the Supreme Court and all of its branches of…

  • Good, War, and the Perils of Peace

    To predict the likelihood of war perhaps we should evaluate the perils of peace. War can be used as a shield from certain legal liabilities for indicted or convicted leaders. This perverse system of incentives is probably why it would be a good idea not to frustrate the nation’s jurisdiction from reaching the actions of…

  • Good, Immigration, and Living in the Frosting of a Cake

    I am learning that many people like the current administration’s goals, but dislike the methods used to achieve those goals. David French of the New York Times caught that surprising factoid from a CBS/YouGov poll. That shouldn’t surprise us but it does. Consider how many people love a steak. We are trained to love that wonderful…

  • Good and the Tools of Hatred

    True hatred such as anti-semitism can’t work unless the context is built and preconditions are met. One can set up certain pre-conditions and simply walk away as the actions of planted hatred roll out their grim statistics at arms length.  Nothing looks intentional that way. If you set up the right conditions you can even superficially…