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  • Good and the Essential Power of the Radical Moderate in Democracy

    Moderate is not a political party or a segment of a party.  Moderate is not compromise or one size fits 51 percent.  A Radical Moderate is the most essential player of any democratic government.  Again radical means working from the deep center and not simply the shallows of the political extremes. Extremists don’t have policies.…

  • Good and “Who is Afraid of Walt Whitman” Reflections on Words better than Mine

    America by Walt Whitman Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old, Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother, Chair’d in the adamant of Time. Reflections on Words Better than Mine When I see…

  • Good, Retribution and the Scapegoats of America

    The tradition of the Scapegoat dates back in ancient Jewish tradition where are pair of fine goats were taken to the temple.  The first goat was first offered as a blood sacrifice and the second goat was collared with a red scarf and sent into the desert symbolically carrying away the sins of a repentant…

  • 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 limited simply because they are lead by men or women whose grandiosity and self-inflation are…

  • Good and Bucking the Floodgates of Influence

    With the amount of money being raised by both parties for the next election cycle we should be skeptical of nearly everything and anything we hear regarding candidates on any media.  Our elections have turned into massive churns of easy money devoted to even easier misrepresentations of this most complex period of American history.  The…

  • Good and Building Souls: Words Better than Mine. Hafiz as guest poet

    I could say a lot about this country right now, and of course I have.  But our nation’s soul is flickering right now and Hafiz gets to the point in this truncated poetic segment. “A child’s mere pencil sketch is every religions  best description of God. Who then will ever take issue or argue over…

  • Good and the Short Standing Tall: the Death of Real Criticism in the USA

    Can you imagine someone so “in need” that before they walk into a stand of trees, they have all the trees trimmed to a foot below their height in order that they may be the tallest entity in the forest. Of course that is ridiculous. No one could be that insecure or have the resources…

  • Good, Right or Left and the Radical Heart

    The midterms are coming up and once again it looks like the fabric of unity is ripping apart under the stress to the political binaries.  The nation is in halves and the parties are themselves breaking again into halves. Unity is in human terms a radical commitment. Infants are introduced to life with one heart…

  • Good and Poisoning it Forward

    This writer remembers better days for America where generous people performed acts of mercy and generosity, not for personal gain, but to pay it forward to the next generation.  We all basked in the warm glow of acts that ‘payed it forward’.  Those more generous times were not perfect by a long shot, but they…

  • 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 we are destined to live through.  This of course is only advice from a relatively…