democracy
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Good: and the Kryptonite Called Division
The futility of our times is we keeping sharpening the blades of rage be those blades sarcastic humor, or outright disgust; aversion backed by our version of “facts” only to remain ever more mired in a dangerous deadlock. This is… Continue reading
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Good, Two Trick Ponies and the Dog Days of Summer
Do people make big decisions in the Dog Days of Summer? Not so much I think. August is summer, sand, and the lassitude of heavy heat. The one thing that does happen is repetition, for it is easier and less… Continue reading
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Good, Ethics, Breaking the Law and Country
Ethics are mediating devices through which humanity can prevent the rule of law from becoming a tyrant. Every human person is infinitely complex and every human law is profoundly limited due to that individual complexity. The law is most definitely… Continue reading
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Good, Warfare, the New Lawfare, and Obscene Private Wealth
I am aware that a vast majority of Americans could no more financially survive a protracted lawsuit than they could physically survive a bomb being dropped on their house in the middle of the night. There are, however, a growing… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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Good, Why We?, and Wily Culpability
This Project might pull in more readers if this writer stopped using the pronouns “we” and “us” and started pointing fingers. I think the current approach may be frustrating to some friends both liberal and conservative. There are reasons for… Continue reading
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Good, Character, Class, and Picking Friends and Allies
The one downside of having reached the top is there is nowhere to run from your mistakes. A wealthy businessman who makes mistakes near the top can always resign and pull out the old trope of needing to spend time… Continue reading
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Good, the “Sin of Empathy??”, Rantings and Ravings
I read the other day there are some nationalists who now consider empathy a sin. They have attached themselves to one of the world’s major religious traditions by a thread, if that. Given the times we are in, this touch… Continue reading
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