justice
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Good and Bling Dignity for Sale
Have you ever sat in an airport listening to the boarding calls and wondered why you aren’t a “preferred” flyer. And if you are not “preferred, what exactly are you? Those first class customers even get a separate strip of… Continue reading
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Good, Cruelty, and When the Voice of Conscience is called a “Whine”
Our Vice President has called the Republican Ohio Governor’s opposition offered as a voice of conscience protesting a cruel political add a “whine”. This, from a Catholic man who presumably aspires to be a Christian. To understand the contradiction of… Continue reading
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Good, Denaturalization and The Devil’s Nail Clipper
Denaturalization is a euphemism for destroying the nature of something severing its relationship to its nature. To be naturalized in the national sense is to become a fully adopted as a family member or national citizen. Our current administration has… Continue reading
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Good and Evil; High Value/to ‘Collateral Damage’ Ratio
I gather a high value target would be the person or persons designated for death in this new kind of military conflict that is called a “war” only when the flags are flying. The news that there may exist ratios… Continue reading
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Good, Sheep that Roar; the Wolf Sanctions Breaking the Law
From Aesop, the Greek story teller, to Jesus on the Sermon on the Mount to Little Red Riding Hood we have been warned about wolves with ill intent disguised as sheep or in the case of Little Red, disguised as… Continue reading
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Good and the Assault on Goodness
This writer sees the eyes roll when I suggest I am writing this column to support and rehabilitate the word “good”. The more interested people who contest this approach ask me if I am promoting the all out relativity of… Continue reading
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Good, Immigration and the Ending of Innocence in America
In case you are not paying attention, the immigration arrests have morphed into a kind of crude harvest machine seemingly lacking any legal ground and based on some other criteria than law. Is it race, color, accent? We have no… Continue reading
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Good, and the Deaths of Innocents on American Soil
Our President and his advisors were upset when the their policies and outrageous, targeted deportation goals resulted in the deaths of innocent people on American soil. Innocent until proven guilty is still the law of the land. Sadly the president’s… Continue reading
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Good and the Devil You Think you Know
The easiest thing in the world is to accumulate evidence supporting your hatred of another person in the political realm. At the same time it is almost impossible to imagine how you yourself became the devil other people hate. Yet,… Continue reading
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Good, Extortion, and the Art of the Misdeal
Not everything in life is a deal. When an offer is made and the only real alternative to the dealer’s offer is death and destruction of everything that matters to you, the transaction is called extortion. Extortion, for clarification, is… Continue reading
