There’s no way to structure this coherently. They are random observations that might help explain the mental processes. But often, I think that we look at the academic problems of poverty and have no idea of the why. We know the what and the how, and we can see systemic problems, but it’s rare to have a poor person actually […]
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It’s not the greatest country in the world, professor, that’s my answer. And you’re going to tell students that America’s so star-spangled awesome that we’re the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom, Japan has freedom, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom. Two hundred seven sovereign states in the world, like 180 […]
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Not so far from the madding crowd of Global Corporate Empire and its superpower media bowl amping good guy v. bad guy — Obama, Kerry, Harper, Putin, Maduro, the Dalai Lama, Charlie Sheen, the Pope, Miley Cyrus, did I miss anyone? — is the reality of cooperation amongst like-minded yet distinct groups or Peoples. The showboat boxing match with its […]
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Mother Earth Day . . . When I was a teenager, after being wished a Happy Father’s Day, my father would say (with a drily humorous look), “Every day is Father’s Day.” It sounded like a quip, yet there was a humble truth to it . . . true respect and love for someone is an everyday experience. So here […]
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“When asked in an interview, ‘How do you define comedy?’.. George Burns responded, ‘If you laugh, it’s comedy.’”[1] The world is a virtual tragi-comedy. Wake up in the morning, spill the coffee on the brand new white rug, start to get angry, then remember the adage “don’t cry over spilled milk,” wonder if it applies to coffee, laugh it off… […]
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“In Lakota, we don’t have a word for animal – in Latin, ani means ‘soul’ and mal means ‘bad’, so we can’t call these creatures that we consider to be our brothers and sisters ‘bad souls’. Each life form that we can name we call a ‘Nation’ – there’s the Ant Nation, the Tree Nation, Air Nation, Water Nation…” Tiokasin […]
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Iraq War veteran and first-time author Kevin Powers has written a war novel that “can stand beside All Quiet on the Western Front or The Red Badge of Courage” said John Burnside in The Guardian (U.K.). Narrated by Pvt. John Bartle, a 21-year-old U.S. Army soldier, this “extraordinary” book tells us precisely what it was like to be a combatant […]
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