Category: New Ways of Thinking
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Dear MSM: You Screwed Up Reporting Trump-Russia. OWN IT!
A very real day of reckoning is coming for America’s Main Stream News Media: They helped perpetuate the False Narrative that nearly destroyed our Democracy. How many kazillion times has a TV News Talking Heads round table collectively nodded, “Yeah – THAT’S why!” when one of them explained away Trump by saying “Well, the American…
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This Is A Moment In Time Where Magical Thinking Could Kill Us…
…that is if we follow Magical Thinkers and their bottomless capacity to believe utter nonsense is real. I draw a very clear distinction between ‘spirituality’ and ‘religious faith’ because there IS one. Even a humble atheist can feel a sense of awe as he or she gazes out at the cosmos — feels its vastness…
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Does Anything Epitomize Conservative Thinking Better Than ‘A WALL’?
We stand on a precipice — one of many precipices we seem to end up standing on here in The Age Of Trump — being held hostage by Donald Trump’s campaign slogan ‘Build The Wall’. It’s absurd on it’s face. If you tried to WRITE this — as a script or a novel — you’d…
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What Republicans Forgot: INTEGRITY Matters
Regardless of how we’re all physically ‘born’, we all arrive in this world with 100% of our Integrity intact. Whether or not we get to the end of our lives with it STILL intact — that’s entirely up to us. The ‘thing’ about Integrity is, it’s an ‘all or nothing’ proposition. Ever meet someone with…
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Something About This Kinda Shouts ‘Bullshit!’
My local 99 Cents Only Store was doing some product testing for the still nascent republican health care plan. It’s kinda ‘pay-as-you-go’. You pay, get nothing – that’s how it goes. I wonder what the deductible will be…
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What WASPS Look Like
I grew up in a bubble. It’s true. Pikesville, MD (just outside northwest Baltimore) was so predominantly Jewish that clever (non-Jewish) people called it ‘Kikesville’. Get it? My public high schools — Pikesville Junior High & Pikesville Senior High — were so predominantly Jewish that even the non-Jewish kids took the Jewish holidays off because…
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Dr Ooga Booga Presents…
For my Republican Friends — All the Magical Thinking with none of the struggle. You’re welcome…
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What Did YOU Do In The Culture War, Daddy?
There are times — at the beginnings of wars usually — when one side knows a state of war exists while the other side doesn’t. Pearl Harbor comes to mind. On the morning of December 7, 1941, the residents of Hawaii — Pearl Harbor in particular — slept soundly in their beds, unaware that they…
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The WORST Thing About Anti-Semitism Is How IRRATIONAL It Is…
A Thought Experiment: You walk into a room. Another person enters and punches you – hard. You ask — “What was that for?” And the other person responds “Because you killed my god”. Being a RATIONAL person who doesn’t want to get punched again — and who doesn’t want to resort to violence yourself —…