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Good and the Crude Dentistry of America’s Authoritarians
What happened last week in Venezuela upset the world order in ways our leadership cannot seem to imagine. Our current heavy handed government impulsively removed a President from another nation like an abscessed tooth on the assumption the cavity of authority left in that nation would heal over quickly and all will be well. Authoritarian…
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Good, Methadone, and Fossil fuels: America’s Drug of Choice
Every time I hear or read we “captured” another county’s leader, I cringe. This writer is clearly no fan of Venezuela’s President, but let us face the truth; kidnapping another nation’s president is not “capturing” but simple kidnapping. No, this so called great American action was about oil; America’s drug of choice. Venezuela was not…
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Good, War Games, and Power Addiction
There have always been troubled human beings in power for the simple reason power for the individual seems an easier consoling alternative to the hard difficult work of returning to health. What history can’t teach us is how important it is in this age to elect balanced, healthy human beings to power in order that…
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Good and Punishment on ‘Suspicion of Crime’
In some slow not so subtle changes in our country’s sense of justice, to suspect one of a crime is becoming the new standard of punishment: no trial, no evidence, no justification; simply suspicion can trigger brutal or even capital punishment. Not so long ago, any suspending due process was reserved for a state of…
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Good, Mercy, Forgiveness and Grace in 2026
Mercy is the softening that arises when love sees our suffering, our limits, and our humanity — and chooses not to punish, abandon, or condemn. (Author unknown) Yes I understand we are currently living under a rule and culture that finds the above kind of language, soft, prosaic, and pointless. Out of a hardened heart, …
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Good, and Discerning Fib, Hyperbole, and lie
Different words of deception carry varying levels of gravity. A fib is when you tell your parents you have finished your homework when in fact you only finished by closing the school books. You will live with the consequences the next day in class. This writer fibbed his way through the early years, and had…
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Good, The American Revolution and Devolution
PBS has released a Ken Burns Documentary on the American Revolution and I was shocked at how important that piece of our history is to the times we are living in 2026. I suspect some of our current turning of our backs on authentic American history might be partially motivated by shame for how far…
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Good and “My Child is Being Poisoned”. When to Intervene?
For a quick short answer I urgently suggest “RIGHT NOW”. What parent wouldn’t immediately rescue their young child from death or life long injury seeing their child in imminent danger? But suppose there were two children and it was your neighbor’s child drinking the poison, Would you say: “Oh well, it is only little Freddie,…
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Good and the Joy of “What Else is True”
A woman who brought aid in the form peer to peer counseling to world disaster areas taught this writer a question that has helped me and so many other people in a troubled world: And so what else is true in your life? Her work was in earthquake, war, flood, and tsunami catastrophes and the…
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Good, the Parasite and the Public Ethic
A good parasite does not kill its host or at least not immediately. A good parasite knows at some primitive level that for as long as the host lives, the nutrition flows. But like all other communities of life, some parasites in the infected host are ‘wiser’ than others and sooner or later the host…
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