Saturday, October 31, 2026

Gary Johnson – The More You Know Him, the Less You Like him

So, now that you know Johnson better, how can you support him?

Why war? Building on the legacy of Einstein, Freud and Gandhi

If we want to end war, we must halt the adult war against children as a priority.

Why Activists Fail

Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and...

Ceasar: Grief and challenge

The intersection of guns, drugs, poverty, scant education, substandard health care, high unemployment, and corruption are literally producing conditions that invariably redound the hardest and worst on young people of color.

Look! Take an Afghander at that perennial FUBAR

We see exactly what we see in Afghanistan right now, the logical mess at the end of nearly two decades of mistakes compounding mistakes.

Why Set Up a Shell Company in Panama? The Psychology Driving Illicit Financial Flows

“Whatever else they do, the Panama Papers give us insight into the extent of the psychological damage suffered by wealthy elites and those who serve them.”

Ants at a pandemic picnic

Now, we see cities throughout Amerika with bars and restaurants open, and millions of us mingling face to face, beer to beer, with no masks.

Citadels of paranoia; panoramas of despair: An occupation of phantoms.

Despair seems an apt response to events one cannot reconcile, of circumstances of which one cannot gain perspective nor control.

Terrorism: A false threat

Millions starve. Millions die yearly from preventable diseases. Millions die as a consequence of wars. Compared with these numbers, the total count of terrorist victims is vanishingly small.

Vote back better

Why then is America, a country noted for its pride (many might say arrogance), slipping so precipitously in our basic functions?