Category: New Ways of Thinking
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True Fact: I’m An Atheist Who Loves Churches
I’m always fond of saying (or selling t-shirts that say) “I am grateful to Hebrew School for making me the atheist I am today” (the t-shirts also have “…grateful to Sunday School…” & “…grateful to Sunday School…” versions because I’m all about being inclusive). I suspect I was born an atheist but whatever lingering doubts…
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A Democracy’s Bottom Line Must Be Its Principles – Not Money or Power
Let’s take it a step further: OUR Democracy’s bottom line must be its principles — not money or power. Let’s frame it correctly though. OUR Democracy’s principles started off un-principled. We cut a deal with slavery. We accommodated it and it cost us dearly. We fought a Civil War because we compromised our principles. We…
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Breaking News: Trump HAS Been Working On A Health “Care” Plan: TrumpCare PICK-AN-ORGAN
Finally – a health “care” plan that thinks like Donald Trump does — and “takes care” of people the same way. The problem with normal health insurance is you end up paying to insure stuff that probably didn’t need insuring — odds being what they are. Take your gall bladder. What are the odds that’s…
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Our News Media’s Big Problem – They Don’t Know How To Connect Dots
I have two kids. When they were little, they both delighted in connect-the-dots books. They thrilled to the concept that — as they drew (their pencil being guided by the numbers) — a picture would emerge. And all THEY had to do: connect the dots. That same concept works in and for storytelling. Half the…
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Having A “Normalcy Bias” Isn’t Abnormal; It Should Be…
If a presidential contender coming down an escalator announces to the world that he’s running for President because America needs a wall to keep out all the Mexican rapists — and everyone (after an initial burst of outrage) shrugs because they’re already consumed by that contender’s next outrage — somewhere inside that shrug was born…
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If America’s Going To Heal Itself, FIRST, It Needs To Ditch The “Magical Thinking”
Believing in Magic is fun. It’s the deus ex machina side door out of anything hard and overly challenging. Like Life. In the theater, it’s “god from machine” — an ending that doesn’t actually add up or make sense but — it was time. It’s why religion proliferates still — even in the face of…
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Every Day, I Feel More & More Hopeful; Here’s Why…
I’ll own it straight up: between a mood stabilizer & copious amounts of THC (we’re talking “COPIOUS”), I walk around most days in a state of perpetual bliss. But I do not, for two seconds, ever forget that I live in a shithole of a world. I live in the most fucked up times imaginable.…
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2020 Will Be Different BECAUSE So Many Women Are Running
Our Main Stream News Media sure love a horse race. I guess it’s because horse races are easy to report. Who’s the favorite (according to the odds makers)? Who’re the jockeys? Then – when the race gets run — the winner is almost always easy to identify. A simple story for simple minds to tell.…
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Slavery Sucks. All Forms Of Slavery, That Is — Including The “Subtle” Ones…
Slavery has been a thing homo sapiens do (we don’t know if any other human species did it) since we figured out we could force someone else to work for free. Slavery, in its essence, is stolen labor. Yes, it’s a stolen life. But, from the point of view of the enslaver, the goal is…