It's unclear if they taught this in those high school government courses that everybody slept through. But if somebody asked you what was the most important element in the legislative process, could you fake an answer to get a passing grade? The list of potential answers is far ...
I’m not alone in experiencing an array of emotions in response to the damage from the latest ice storm. Sadly, it is a foreseeable result of decisions being made by corporate interests every minute of every day. So is the plethora of climate-related disasters that are becoming commonplace across our planet. In fact, these are precisely the types of events scientists began warning us about in the early 1970’s. I was 9 years old when I asked a trusted authority figure about global warming. He said it was a hoax. Since then, I’ve learned a lot. As a business attorney, I came to ...
Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s line that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Of course, what was an expression of optimism for the moral reformer King was more in the nature of a victory spike of the football for ...
George Bernard Shaw’s quote, used by Robert F. Kennedy in his 1968 campaign, challenges us to dream. The full quote is: “Some men see things as they are and ask why, I dream things that never were and ask why not.” However, our instant focused society is moving so fast we don’t take enough time to contemplate, to dream. Archibald MacLeish in his prose “Crisis of The Heart” faults us for failing to (dream) imagine and desire. So many ills of society and culture remain and even deepen in their tragic suffering because we fail to (dream), imagine, and then desire. A CRISIS ...
If there is one thing I’ve learned in the past 12 months, it’s that as a general population, we love electricity. On Christmas Eve, December 1940, my family homestead farmhouse experienced the glow of artificial light for the first time. My Great-Uncle John wrote me a Christmas greeting and included a story about the first time they had power in the house. I read the letter the same day that we received our satellite internet for the farm in the mail, Christmas Eve, December 2021. The farmhouse, built in the 1920’s, has been home to now the 4th generation of the family lineage. ...
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are running content very harmful to children. So said a jury in New Mexico that just slapped their owner, Meta, with a $375 million fine. The state accused the company of spreading pornographic images and helping adults contact vulnerable children. Meta ...
