Fighting Fire with Water (A Blue Wave)
#14 of On Tyranny: Establish a private life. – “Nastier rulers will use what they know about you to push you around. Scrub your…
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Combatting the Taliban, the Nazi, in Ourselves
#6 of On Tyranny: Be wary of paramilitaries – “When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start…
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Testing Checks and Imbalances with “Captain Un-America”
There is an amusing, but chilling, true tale by the great Italian journalist, Luigi Barzini (The Italians) from his time of covering Benito Mussolini…
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A restaurant can be a very special place. It can be where you see the folks that live above, around, and beyond; coming...
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Essentially unessential: From the eyes of a North Dakota restaurant worker
The rise of this global pandemic is a documented threat, and there is an overall consensus among the scientific community at large that we…
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#18 of On Tyranny: Be Calm when the unthinkable arrives – “Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians…
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How “Rugged” is Rugged Individualism in Hard Times?
While visiting my neighborhood Cenex station to top off my gas tank for the next month or two of infrequent trips to the grocery…
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#16 of On Tyranny: “Learn from peers in other countries. – Keep up your friendships abroad, or make new friends in other countries.
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There’s No Place Like Home (Alone)!
#12 of On Tyranny: Make eye contact and small talk
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Trump Blows Off Coronavirus. Until It Threatens Wall Street.
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Sorting fact from fiction
Getting a COVID-19 test isn’t as easy as you think
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“People in economic chaos find it impossible to make major life changes. It’s amazing how billionaire leadership is utterly ignorant of working people’s lives.”
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I Am Not Here for You
But what is a woman, if not for making people comfortable above all things?
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As they lose more power to the billionaires and as they grow more desperate, they are going to do what desperate people have always…
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Barack Obama’s Wingman vs. Vladimir Putin’s Wingman?
Step #3. Beware the One-Party State “The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic…
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Courage is a lonely business, but coupled with tenacity, it can work wonders.
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The Affliction
Achieve blankness and acceptance in a twisted sense of adopted Taoist complacency.
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“There are worse things than fallen angels, and a Trump dictatorship and McConnell oligarchs are some of them.”
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Badlands Watch: ‘We Will Get That Project Stopped’ Badlands Family Challenges Bridge in Court
“We don’t want a bridge across the Little Missouri that’s sole purpose is just for one or two owners of large oil trucking companies…
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“Your first question should always be, who benefits from your believing their truths, or bullsh*t? You or them?”
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Something we can all learn from
Thoughts on emotional and social learning
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