The Lawyer-ly Throttle

“Leaders” don’t do anything without “cover” from their lawyers.  While sometimes this prevents real problems, just as often it does one of two things: 1) justifies bad decisions; one just has to find enough unethical, uncompassionate lawyers, or 2) it prevents good decisions, from excessive fear of being sued.

Have We Become Numb To Statistics?

Half of US public school children now live in poverty.

Poor Effects

The poor have such lousy food options, and such high stress, that their bodies bloat to unhealthiness.  Which only enervates them more.

Silver Plus 20 Anniversary. Yawn.

Earth Day’s 45^th 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.

Dys

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

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.

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.