My first encounter with social media was probably listening to the car radio as a child while my parents drove around Los Angeles in the mid-1960s. These are some of my earliest memories. A few of the songs I can recall hearing during this time include A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles, Stop In the […]
The second event which influenced my sense of identity was more technology-driven, and it came much later in my life. The transition from vinyl albums to compact discs was a difficult one for me, and it was at this time when I first realized that for better or worse, change was inevitable; there was no […]
The final innovation which profoundly affected my personal sense of identity was the advent of the Internet. By the time my wife and I broke down and bought our first PC in the early 90s, the World Wide Web was already a full-blown global phenomenon. The Internet opened up entirely new vistas of research and […]
For all human beings, the reality we experience on a daily basis is the product of our language. Language allows people in every culture to categorize and conceptualize reality, define it in rational terms, and ultimately, to help create it. More importantly, it enables people to communicate with each other about this physical realm we […]
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s heartbreaking 1963 Letter from a Birmingham Jail is a classic rhetorical response to social injustice and to those who seek to perpetuate injustice either by ignorance, complacency, or tacit approval. MLK eloquently calls out the clergymen in Alabama who condemned him as an “extremist” for his very reasonable and honorable – […]
When former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the nation about the dangers of the ‘military-industrial complex’ in his farewell address on Jan. 17, 1961, he knew what he was talking about. In that famous speech, Eisenhower challenged the American people to limit the undue influence of the military on our democratic society: “In the […]
Michele Leonhart’s days as head of the US Drug Enforcement Agency are numbered. Last week, members of the House Oversight Committee delivered a vote of “no confidence” in her leadership abilities. Leonhart’s tenure as chief administrator for the troubled agency has seen a litany of scandals, including – among others – the massacre of civilians […]
No one looking at America from a balanced perspective can deny any longer that the country has gone collectively insane. Certainly there are some rational, intelligent Americans still around, but we must face the fact that a large segment of the population is totally nuts. Worse, the ruling class is sociopathic and inherently evil. This […]
American Millennials are some of the most unskilled people on the planet, according to a recent study published by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), America’s Skills Challenge: Millennials and the Future. The Princeton-based researchers administered a test called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) to measure the aptitude of adults in […]
A recent report from the Council on Foreign Relations confirms that the U.S. public education system is making Americans so dumb it has now become a national security risk. Our very survival as a nation is at stake, according to the task force. Forget the threat of terrorism, the war on drugs, gay marriage or […]
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