A Life Journal For Our Great and Troubled Times
The world is not in a good place these days. War, hate, terrorism, crime, famine, eco devastation are rising, and the climate crisis and systemic, extreme animal abuse are devastating our world. The Liberal and left Boomers and Generation X were, and are well meaning, helped change our world, and still lead the fight...
People are boycotting Loblaws in May to protest it’s high prices. In my opinion, this is kind of futile for several reasons. Firstly, Loblaws prices aren’t anymore expensive than other middle/high end groceries, and No Frills prices is comparable to Freshcos and Walmart. Their Optimum loyalty program is great and as a poor person...
(Trigger alert: This blog talks about white culture and may be offensive to those who are offended by critism of white, conservative culture.) Racist white people love focusing on the wrong doings of other races and ignoring their own, but to be honest, no group has done more wide scale destruction of wildlife and...
I was searching online for the answer to this question today, after watching a particularly dumb Netflix production. Instead despairing, as I often do, about the lack of halfway decent content to watch, I decided to Google my question and that led me to Quora where someone had asked it to the internet public....
I recently read a New York Times article about poverty. (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/magazine/poverty-by-america-matthew-desmond.html#commentsContainer) It was interesting and well informed, and started me thinking about what poverty us and why it is. I wrote a comment on the article and it got me thinking. I’ve included my comment here (in italics) and expanded upon it. The answer...
We are at a crossroads in life and need to know the right path forward. We have the answers but we need now to continue to explain them, to understand them, and to believe them. This is a process and it takes a while but its the nature of intelligent minds to hear, trust,...
I wrote this poem on May 28, 2022, four days after the shooting of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. This, only two weeks after 10 were shot in Supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and 13 days after one person was shot in a Church in Orange County, California. If this isn’t...
Poverty really is the saddest and most unjust thing in human life. Especially when it affects seniors, the disabled, single moms, the working poor and refugees. Its just heartbreaking and I wonder how the mega rich can sleep at night. Where is their compassion? Where is the government and voter compassion? We could end...
Anti animal rights people are always saying animals have no souls. It’s pretty obvious they do and it’s not too hard to prove it. Anyone with a pet can tell you of their dog’s nature. Most of dog nature, animal nature, like with humans, is mental and survival based, but their souls are evident...
My comment on Washington Post Facebook article about a violent “air rage” attack in an airplane: “America has become a uber violent nation that is proud of its rudeness. Teachers being attacked, racism and antisemitism attacks common & violence the main ingredients in all your popular media. Mass shootings are normal. No respect for...