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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…