Sunday, April 26, 2015

Silver Plus 20 Anniversary. Yawn.

Earth Day’s 45th came and went.  A flickeringly brief news item.  But still the shills for the fossil fuels industry and their financial allies dominate the (mostly non) conversation.

And the assertive deniers—the invincibly ignorant—all too readily accept the shills’ utterly unscientific drivel. 


In fact, in this and many other things, they wear their certainty like armor to shield them from the real truth of the world that tries to touch them.

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Dys

How sensible is it that we are expecting a dysfunctional government to supposedly try to fix dysfunctional systems and processes?

Monday, April 13, 2015

What Can I Say?

“Being a black man around the police is like being a mouse in a room full of cats.”  An African-American male. 

What does that do to man?  A man who has a child, especially a son, of his own? For generations? 

The harvest is not only bitter, but perpetual.

What we usually fail to see is how that affects the rest of us.  Because it does. MLK did not say that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere merely because he wanted the majority to empathize with the minority.  He said it BECAUSE IT’S TRUE.


And you don’t have to be a German union member, homosexual, or Jew in the 1930s to know that.

Sunday, April 5, 2015

The More Things...Don't Change

The troubling thing about the movie “Selma,” as one African-American leader says, is its relevancy today: voting rights, police repression, lack of justice, etc.