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.
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...
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
~Desiderius Erasmus
Welcome back to a new chapter of Exploring Morality. In this chapter...
Can we not propose that a jumbled mind is expressed through incoherent speech?
When we take up arms, we’re talking about our vote.
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?
Just for the heck of it, I took a completely unscientific study and looked at how the major news outlets cover the federal deficit.
Stating that gay people were born with their orientation seems like the perfect counter to the conservative argument that being gay is a choice, but this life-affirming rebuttal opens the door to other attacks.
The thought of eternal suffering is a significant motivator for those who are strong in their religious beliefs. It is also conducive to those who push various religious doctrines on their congregants to keep them in line.
During and right after the mortgage crisis some were talking about the commercial crash and how that would soon hit. At the time I thought,...