Good and When a Detention Facility becomes a Concentration Camp

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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

  • 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

  • Good, Dictators, Billionaires and a Servant Leader

    The trick of a successful dictatorship is to reduce all considerations to the balance of power and then grab power at all costs and any consequence.  If you have the power you can do anything you want and usually what… Continue reading

  • Good, Human Rights, Aspiration and Grit

    Be it Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, or Disability Rights, at their outset, all of those movements had little to no federal support, legal basis, or even local support. The true broad scope of movements of human rights seem always to… Continue reading

  • Good, Nonviolence, Pacifism, and Servant Leadership

    Strangely enough there is nothing passive about nonviolence or pacifism.  Nonviolence and pacifism are hard choices that must be actively engaged against the mainstream.  Nonviolence itself is a decision that counters a deeply embedded instinct to respond violently to insult… Continue reading

  • Good, Catching Fire, and Resistance

    The question keeps coming up; “Why isn’t the resistance catching fire?”  Yes there are demonstrations, and they grow as a form of expression that could be called the safe theater of the political.  In the past that theater could nudge… Continue reading

  • Good, the Young, the Earth, and Hopes Hiding Place

    If you have ever been in a fender bender car accident, you know at the sound of the crunch the present moment is already the second casualty. Red and blue lights form to fill out the changed ambiance, and strange… Continue reading