The Cognitive Dissonance which Perpetuates Animal Abuse… and Animals on the Menu… is Based on False and Immoral Presumptions! I was born into a household of dogs. Two black cocker spaniel brothers, named Butch and Tony… after the goofy high school nicknames of my dad and his running buddy back in the 30s (my dad was “Tony”). Before my time, these puppies had come to our family while my…

A Forgotten Chapter in American History Reveals What We Lost, Gained and May Lose Again. A lot of Americans don’t want to know the truth. About anything. Certainly not anything that might challenge their worldview, or make them feel bad. Like, for instance, how black and brown and Indian and Asian people have been treated by white people. Not that white people haven’t contributed greatly…

A West Texas singer-songwriter tells another where he can stick his ”unwoke” anthem! I love country music. Well, not so much today’s country music… which is largely comprised of preening “bros,” clones of each other seeing who can wear a cowboy hat more inauthentically and sing in a more cartoonish southern drawl. Their songs are a mash-up of inane lyrics set to cookie-cutter…

Well, sorry but you are dead wrong. First of all, I would doubt that any climate scientist believes that "exagerrating" Global Warming is even possible, much less "no better than denying it." So far, the most extreme climate projections from decades ago have been EXCEEDED by the speed and severity…

The TV news last night reported that 1% of Americans believe that Global Warming is the №1 problem facing our nation. That number rises to 3% among younger Americans. So between 97-99% of Americans think something else is more important than the livability of the planet. This factlet makes me…

As we are rushing nearer to Civil War III, we should well reflect on what it is that conservatives are ever “conserving.” Recall in CWI, the Revolutionary War, American conservatives were eager to to kill their fellow Americans in order to conserve subservience to king and church and loyalty to authority, law and order, tradition, heritage, honor and their “way of life.” Of course, all of these, not coincidently, were part and…

Republicans Abducted the Supreme Court by Hook & Crook. It is Time for Democrats to Use the Constitution to Rebalance It. There are many troubling aspects of how the current Supreme Court was fashioned.. the honesty and integrity of some of its members… and what ideals they actually hold foremost in importance. Does this Supreme Court really represent ALL of “We the People?” Are its decisions in the best interests of…

Despite conjectures among mathematicians that “Time” may not actually be a thing… it continues to taunt me. Albert Einstein, the discoverer of the Theory of Relativity, and Kurt Gödel, the father of the Theory of Incompleteness, were buddies. They are purported to have had fascinating conversations, according to some writers, “beautiful,” “aesthetic” journeys to the “edge of thought.” I can’t vouch for that. I don’t know exactly…

This is how America’s third civil war begins. Oh, you didn’t know there have already been TWO American civil wars? The first was the Revolutionary War, in which the original American conservatives — the Tories (determined to conserve the grand traditions of king and church and the motherland, Great Britain)…