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  • Good, Generosity, and Poverty; the Ultimate Values Clarifier

    True poverty reduces one to their true values but poverty is such a hard edged teacher.  One can easily present as a good person if one has sufficient resources, but obeying your own authority regarding the values of good from a state of deep poverty is the ultimate test of character and integrity.  This isn’t…

  • Good, Executive Orders, and Dictating a Democracy

    Imagine if you lived on the 10th floor of an apartment complex and the children of the vertical community devised a game which involved pulling the fire alarms for the amusement of watching people scramble. We would stop that kind of vandalism in a heart beat.  But here we have a president using the fire…

  • Good and the Vampires of Grief

    In death we are all human. No matter how you cut and define your life this writer feels on solid ground in saying that dying and the losses that come to those connected to the dying need to be treated as a sacred protected space even if you are not a believer. Any person who…

  • Good, Xenophobia and the Gold of Common Ground

    The price of gold has had a wild ride in these contemporary economies.  That is largely because with gold we can fake it but we can’t make it (yet).  Like gold, common ground exists and in terms of value to us and our futures, its value exceeds gold compounded by common grounds growing scarcity.  We…

  • Good, Pardons, Magical Thinking, and the Importance of Real Evidence

    Our current leadership holds its position of power because a thin majority the United States  seemed willing to override real evidence of crime with “pardons of denial” when it came to voting in the last election.  Perhaps the denial phase in our history is receding as it appears our lower courts cannot actually operate without…

  • Good and the Presumption of Guilt; Where art Thou Sweet Innocence?

    The presumption of innocence is not a new concept with the US Constitution.  The matter goes back in a formal legal sense at least as far as the Code of Hammurabi dating back in the ancient near east to at least 1755 AD and probably further .  A presumption of guilt however dates back to…

  • Good and Thriving in America like a Tuvan Throat Singer

    These are hard days for many people in this country; too many people.  The possibilities of despair are endless. The drop into bitterness is the cheapest ride in town. The climb out of despair is certainly not a free balloon ride.  The Tuvans are an ethnic group living in Southern Siberia with a lesson for…

  • Good, Peace, Private Interest, Public Loss and Ignorance

    In reading the history leading up to the second World War it seemed the world had learned an important lesson in trying to negotiate a peace through the concession of other people’s land and culture to the aggressor.  If you don’t believe history repeats itself you simply haven’t read history.  History repeats to the degree…

  • Good and The Crime of “Dog Whistling” the Hounds from Hell

    To call any group of human beings of any status, race or nationality, gender etc. “garbage” should be an impeachable crime when the lie is told from a position of power. If you follow the news, that term is reported to be tied to the current administration regarding Somali people living in this country.  The…

  • Good and “Rage Bait”: Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the year

    Rage Bait is Oxford dictionary’s word of the year; except of course it is two words. How many words must one have to build a phrase of the year? I guess dictionaries would collapse under their own weight if they started publishing the phrase of the year. Has the english language become so leaky we…