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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

  • Good: Liberal Arts, and History’s Patterns to be Broken

    This writer was once a consultant for organizations struggling for direction relative to mission.  One afternoon I was the only male sitting with a group of much younger professional women after a fruitful afternoon of organizational work.  In the post… Continue reading

  • Good and the Slow Walk to Hell

    What is going on with immigration will redefine the history of this nation. Beckett and Kafka recognized the seeds of this problem long ago. The humane solution to the immigration problem is the administration of a rational law and funding… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Good, Empathy, Conscience and War

    This writer scans the news for actual facts and waits for the information to either contradict or confirm existing versions of what might be true. This morning of course, the headlines screamed WAR. And below that prospect were the news… Continue reading

  • 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

  • Good and Reforming the Normal: Speaking Truth

    This Project and website proposed seven virtues of a New Democracy to which a citizen would need to commit in order for the United States to begin the process of reforming the era we are in and once again be… Continue reading

  • Good and the Princely Trappings of Fascism

    Standing on the podium with a stern smile of self-importance while rank after marching rank of soldiers turn and solute the supreme leader of the failing kingdom has long been a favorite of soda cracker dictators enjoying the hopelessly pompous… Continue reading