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  • Good and Purchasing the Election on Credit

    A million dollar bounty for citizens turning on each other? Whose money pays for that? The recent announcement by the President that he is offering 8 billion dollars in farm aid to farmers who have been suffering from his policies… Continue reading

  • Good but God Help Us, What is Next?

    A decision may actually be a good decision, but any choice may also turn out to be a bad decision.  Whatever the quality of the decision we make next, any decision is always about the future.  One can say many… Continue reading

  • 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

  • Good and When the Death Threat is a Tolerated Crime

    In this treatment of the word good this writer runs into a difficulties. Punishment solves nothing, but when it comes aggressive crime, restriction of criminal behavior is a requirement.  Call it what you like, including punishment. The question here is why… Continue reading

  • Good, Stupid Cruelty and the Power of Common Aversion

    Stupid cruelty is rock bottom in terms of human attributes. If we can’t always agree on the common good we also have the option of agreeing on common aversion. Cruelty has been introduced by this current Administration as part of… Continue reading

  • Good and the Strawman called Congress

    It just might be time for those in Congress who have integrity to walk out and end any pretense that things are only just a little pressured in Washington.  The Constitutional authority of Congress is being violated almost daily, and… Continue reading

  • Good and Post Script on a Failed Execution

    The state of Tennessee has provided the final proof that state sponsored executions of human beings is a brutal, crude, and barbaric practice unworthy of a civilized society.  In Christa Pikes’ situation a person commits a horrible crime as a… Continue reading

  • Good, Nightmares and the Death Penalty

    It defies my comprehension how people can so passionately support the death penalty. A woman with reported to be suffering from bi-polar, brain injury, child abuse is about to be executed in Tennessee. She has the unholy distinction of being… Continue reading

  • Good and America Needing Leader’s but not Followers”

    How can that be one might ask? Autocrats are currently having their day with their followers and it is becoming obvious to even a blind mouse what a mess we have. Just one example is wars that have no end… Continue reading

  • 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