White folks who remarkably continue to claim (or ignore) racism isn’t alive and well, that circumstances have markedly improved for black folks are either...
Those who have propagated bigotry and hatred for profit like Rush Limbaugh and Fox News have so saturated society with it, that people who join that horrible chorus feel that they are just doing the normal thing.
William James, Rollo May, and Paul Tillich on Will, Courage and Faith
At a time in our nation's history when our Supreme Court has chosen the wealthy to dominate our politics and the press has mostly abandoned their duty to empower the public with truth, how can the people find their way back to a true and responsive democracy?
Happy Fathers Day, Dad.
The day is here. What memories do you have of this day? Do you remember a kindness that you and your...
Leading MMT thinkers and authors insist often and loudly that they are simply trying to describe how money and thereby the economy, government and the private sector work. Whether a capitalist, socialist, communist, or any other -ist, everyone should want to know how the system they exist in operates.
Can we not propose that a jumbled mind is expressed through incoherent speech?
When we take up arms, we’re talking about our vote.
We are stardust, we are golden
we are billion year old carbon
and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
- Jonie Mitchell, "Woodstock"
Ferrets are...
Just for the heck of it, I took a completely unscientific study and looked at how the major news outlets cover the federal deficit.
I could not believe how many pick-up trucks in the school parking lot were sporting a Johnny Reb bumper tag that read, “Hell, no! We Ain’t Fergettin.’” It was here, in 1960’s Mississippi, that I learned the Civil War was not quite over.