Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Why "gun control" is doomed

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Humans have been losing their temper and killing their own kind since before we were humans. We just keep improving the technology. The AR-1...
Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Your investment portfolio

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  If you've made enough money during your working life to invest in a portfolio that will now support you in comfortable leisure in reti...

An unstoppable wave of suffering and death

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 The current crisis in Ukraine not only puts us on the verge -- if not an inescapable path -- to nuclear destruction, it also forces humani...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

The love of power has defeated the power of love

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 When 50 Republican senators, plus Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, voted to kill the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act yesterday, they affi...
Monday, January 10, 2022

The Pope wants to know when you're gonna give him some grandchildren already

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 For all of his admirable qualities, the pontiff is a Catholic after all. Sometimes he's just gotta represent the values of the organiza...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

I owe my life to two world wars

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 On this Armistice Day, I think about the military service of my grandfather, whom I barely met, and of his only son, my father. Although bo...
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Sunday, October 31, 2021

The homophobic and misogynistic words of George Carlin

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Recently, I was severely castigated in a Facebook comment thread for using the term "boob" in the humorous exchange that had forme...
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