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Good , Grief, Funerals in Minnesota, and the Art of Rage
This was written a few days before the assassinations in Minnesota so I will post it lest we forget too soon. Two ways to accomplish change: create a compelling vision with a plan, or simply engineer mass rage. The second… Continue reading
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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
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Good, Government as Video Game, and the Strongmen
I doubt many people would mistake a gifted War Craft video game player as a great American soldier. Let’s face it, pushing buttons on a console and starring dazedly at a screen hardly equates to military service. In some ways… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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Good, The “We of Us”, and The Perilous Course of Administration
The death of Brian Thompson has bothered me more deeply than I could have anticipated. The philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote, administering human affairs sails perilously close to evil. As a former administrator this writer knows exactly what she was talking… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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