Failing at Reality
What is there to say about the insufficiency of “thoughts and prayers” against the mental madness that insists wearing a mask is a burden, while telling our children to wear…
Tag: education
Happy Cinco de Mayo
Assuming, of course, that you are not French. In truth, resisting assault by empire builders is pretty cool, and also very dangerous. Also true is that in many places today…
MOTGR! Music On The Green Revival
My friend and across-the-valley neighbor, Jim Norman, of Taylorsville CA, recently sort of retired after three-plus decades as Music Director for the combined Greenville elementary and high schools. Legendary hereabouts…
Nowhere to Lie; Nowhere to Hide
“Be impeccable with your word”… Contemporary politics is a shatterhouse of messaging. Politicians spew nonsense, mostly to raise money to stay in office “to work for the people”, i.e., the…
We Are Not Paying Attention
The marketing drive for ever increasing “convenience” and overriding concern for the next quarter’s numbers have us failing to track our major, lethal stalker. Platitudes flop about like flounder dying…
From Hidden Persuaders to “Influencers”
The pressure is on… on our minds, actually, and pushed at us via almost every available mass media information provider. We are served the horrors of war next to something…
Natural Intelligence
Our self-assessment of human intelligence leaves us too dumb to seriously appreciate the depth of experience in nature. We underestimate the intelligence of natural processes and entities. Plant life appears…