Why Conservatives Don’t Like Higher Ed – LA Progressive

Good academic science and social science lie behind ideas that conservatives don’t want to believe, about climate change, about evolution, about the persistence of racism. So conservatives attack the whole academic enterprise. Organized conservative assaults on academic liberals are now the norm on campuses. Source: Why Conservatives Don’t Like Higher Ed – LA Progressive Advertisements

Of Historical Statues and Monuments

Source: Of Historical Statues and Monuments

Will America’s Wars Ever End?

Source: Will America’s Wars Ever End?

Flirting with the Fires of Hell

Originally posted on Kenn Orphan:
“It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they’re used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies.…

Do you have a code that you live by?

An open letter to my grandkids, nieces and nephews. No, I wasn’t thinking of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s “Teach Your Children” when I gave this a title…but it does fit. 🙂 My dearest loved ones… I may have shared this before but I’ll do so again at the risk of repeating myself. I was […]

Degenerate Poems

Source: Degenerate Poems

Thoughts after listening to Van Morrison most of the afternoon.

Can it be you It’s been so long. Was it what I said that was so wrong. Should I rejoice and sing a song. Come take me back To when I was strong. Memory stirs my mind of Nam and Viet Cong. Let the healing begin it’s no longer a sin let’s fire up that bong. Freedom’s a woman […]

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