politics
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Good and History down the Memory Hole
“What war?” asks the Vice President “What January 6 insurrection?” asks the President. “What 19 trillion dollars of new investments in the American Economy?” asks the press when the administration touts a great economy that for some reason refuses to… 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 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Shoulders of Giants.
While criticism of the contemporary American scene may be important, the one thing criticism doesn’t generate is a vision of a better world or the Next Democracy. That task has already been started for us and we need only to… Continue reading
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Good and the Price of your Soul
The good news is that if you want to sell your soul, at least the president and his party have put a real price tag on it. For tens of thousands of years the human soul has evaded the commodification… 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 and Out of Chaos . . . War
This is the time for organizational pundits to stop praising the opportunities of chaos and disorder just to liven up another leadership training session. The idea of opportunity in chaos is solid, but the opportunities are far more often devastating… Continue reading
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Good, No Center No Power and the Lethal Game of Chicken
If you are reading the news critically and from a range of sources you will see there is no political good news. We are in a slow motion game of chicken with ourselves. “Chicken” is the game where two parties… Continue reading
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Good, “My Own Morality” and the Morality of Plurality
Our elected President has declared when asked about the limits to his power that his limits were “my own morality”. Perhaps clever, but it turned out to be an accidental statement of truth rare as that may be from that… Continue reading
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Good, Dark Money and the Vampires of Future
The current Administration’s unprecedented orgy of debt accumulation, assault on the value of the dollar, and obsession with bitcoin should not strike anyone as subtle. We, in the this generation, have grown up with the dollar as the globe’s benchmark… 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
