Good and Bucking the Floodgates of Influence

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  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • Good and Playing a Losing Hand against a Cheater

    This writer learned early in his career if you don’t have the votes you don’t have the power no matter what kind of rhetoric you can marshal.  In the games of cards one can almost feel a losing hand as… Continue reading

  • Good and Hierarchy; its Good Uses and Gross Abuses

    Imagine in a storm a tree falls and breaks the high power electrical line to the hospital.  Not only that, but the backup generators are underwater and the trucks with repair supplies can’t make it to the line break.  The… Continue reading

  • Good and The Three Minds of America

    No science here; just observation. This writer sees three general mindsets in America: The Warring Mind and the Pure Process Mind  and the Peace Maker Mind. The first two minds are weak and the last is a power mind. Starting… Continue reading

  • Good and When a Man can’t Lose

    Every parent sooner or later must teach their children you can’t win them all. As a parent you endure the child’s tears and encourage a different approach and wait for the insight to take hold. We all have loses that… Continue reading

  • Good and the Slaughter of Innocents

    Recently in Sudan, 60,000 inhabitants in the Sudanese city of El Fasher were simply slaughtered. How is that possible?  The arms industry and its many international branches of enterprise make it possible and our administration’s indifference to such horrifying mayhem… Continue reading

  • Good, Wealth, Capitalism and Anti-gravity

    Galleries are not the engine of the art world. Artists and their art are. Culture only trickles up, and money never trickles down.  A comment by Lari Pittman from Los Angeles in an NYT letter to the editor. Here are… Continue reading

  • Good, Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, and Pavlov’s Dogs

    Ivan Petrovich Pavlov developed the principles of classical conditioning that have led to the further development of innumerable behavioral therapies that still serve us well. Leave it to this administration to use the principles of classical conditioning to reverse the… Continue reading

  • Good and the Disease of Insatiable Wealth

    Dr. David Lay Williams is a professor of political science who studies the role of economic inequality in the history of political thought. He wrote the following quote as a guest writer in the New York Times addressing ancient concerns… Continue reading