Of mice and men—and elephants
Progress was slow in the 12th century but now in the 21st technical and scientific progress is overwhelming us.
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Just another day in Tombstone and Dodge, U.S.A.
Financial and health experts estimate we spend about $230 billion a year repairing millions of bullet holes.
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Living in Prozac nation
From Homer’s Odyssey to Buddy Holly: The times they are a-changin’ When Robert Zimmerman, born in Duluth and raised in Hibbing, better known as…
Read NowAggressive rats and monkeys
“The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.”
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Disaster capitalism
How long does it take you to pay your Social Security taxes for the year?
Read NowBulls, biblical BS, and blasphemy
Like the era of bullfighting, that time is over. More and more people are coming to their senses.
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To pee or not to pee—that’s a question??
If you can’t hold it, don’t book a flight.
Read NowHow about freedom from religion?
“The Bible says raping a woman is okay and teaches that women are property to be bought and sold.”
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School lunch
The French obesity rate is about 10 percent. Ours is 30 percent. And many of our dogs and cats are obese.
Read NowBack to the basement, graduates
tThe American student loan debt has now reached $1.5 trillion, with defaults on the debt at more than 40% of debtors.
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A huge pile of corpses
Scientist Stephen Hawking, computer whiz Bill Gates, and a few other AI nerds are afraid the robots are going to take us over quite…
Read NowAll cruelty springs from weakness
Would a liberal Democrat or a conservative Republican kill baited bears?
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Citizens Un-united of America
“When a Manhattan bakery, the site of their favorite cookies, was going to close, the Mercers bought the bakery to solve that little problem.”
Read NowAthens will probably never be great again
“Every country that has been considered close to great in the past, including Greece and Rome, fell victim to income inequality.”
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How many kids have been killed by teddy bears?
We live in a very complicated world that adds segments to its complexity every hour of the day.
Read NowIs healthcare a privilege or a right?
“Texas State Representative Jessica Farrar’s bill would fine men $100 for masturbating and require rectal exams before men get Viagra prescriptions“
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Dominant wealth “deconstructs” society
“We can move into planned communities that indulge in every strategy short of a drawbridge and a moat. But eventually, we will run out…
Read NowA one-way ticket to Tombstone USA
Obama wrote an executive order banning people who had been judged incapable of handling their own affairs from buying guns. The Republican Congress repealed…
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Republican cop-out: ‘Well, I’m not a scientist’
“Every regulation in the coal industry was passed after somebody died. The same is true of construction and manufacturing”
Read NowThat old time religion isn’t good enough for anybody
“Franklin D. Roosevelt said, ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’ If we are going to have fear today, let’s spread…
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Sycophants, plutocrats, and pitchforks
“It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
Read NowBye-bye, Miami—Greenland is melting
Congress diddles while the Earth wobbles The first real study of the changes in the earth’s climate took place at Camp Century in Greenland,…
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I’ve Always Lived In A Great Country
“We need to make America ‘greater,’ not ‘great again.’ ”
Read NowHere comes Trumpistan
We have had a lot of presidents consumed by the White Male Supremacy Violence Disease.
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