Basic information on how culture works, respect for knowledge, and understanding of science is sorely missing from today’s world. Even those who purportedly are educated people doing science or creating complex global policies do not understand even the basic concepts of social science. We cannot fight ignorance with ignorance… for oh so many reasons. Social science does […]
Self-Indulgent Micro-Focus on Piffle Must Stop
There is a problem in the world. One problem. We are killing ourselves. We have an inter-connected world in which tiny, myopic, and dysfunctional communities are chafing from rubbing up against communities with opposing and equally dysfunctional bases. Once the world was a big enough place that opposing ideologies simply widened the geographic distance between themselves and […]
Another January 8th & Nothing Much Has Changed
Four years ago, mid-morning on January 8th, life in Tucson changed. We had actually been one of those towns before, but for whatever reasons, the label did not stick. October 29, 2002 was when a mass shooting, and mass murder, took place at the University of Arizona. But the attempted assassination of a Congressman and […]
7 Things To Stop Giving A Darn About In 2015
Ok, the word, darn, in the title really means sh*t, and we all know it. But the expression is so quaint and rooted in women’s culture; I just have to use it. I stole the idea for this article from the Huff Po, I did not read their article because that corporation does not […]
Resolutions You Can Live With
Last January I wrote a post about the “word” meme that swept across social media posts. My word was infrastructure. I succeeded in imposing some order upon my life. But at the same time I became reacquainted the impermanence of everything. Life’s genie is a trickster and reminds us that all is perspective. Framing 2014 served to reinforce my understanding […]
Siblings and Older Foster Kids Need Parents
Regular readers will find this to differ from my usual post, at first glance. Social action that sees light on this blog is often political, but at this time of the year, when everyone is thinking of family, family gatherings, and tradition, I’ve decided to take a moment to consider youths whose family structure is so fragmented […]