Fences, walls, anonymity. They are all ways to make us feel safe and protected. Feeling safe and protected can allow us to behave badly.
Feeling Protected
Category: Politics
Voting for the Future
In an article, Are Americans Too Old?, Joshua Rothman says “The country’s fate and character are being determined not by forward-looking people in their youth or their prime but by backward-looking ones in the final third of their lives…There is ample evidence that older people favor policies that emphasize security for themselves over investment in the young.”
The cats have an answer to the problem.
Problems of our own making
What is it with the U.S. and Iran? This has been going on for years!
It’s Tax Day
Tax Day could reasonably be renamed Lobbyist Day.
Here’s an article about America’s insane tax-filing process. And here’s an article about how doing taxes in the U.S. is notoriously complicated and costly The dialog about paying taxes comes from this NPR conversation.
God Save America
Should we be saying God Bless America or God Save America?
Anti-Democracy
Jesus said: “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
In the modern world we might say that no one can serve both wealth and democracy.
Boris and Igor
There’s a joke about two poor Russians, Boris and Igor, which has relevance to America today.
Forms of Entertainment
Many people insist that it’s important to follow the news. But is it?
The Art of Intimidation
What does Trump really want?
Some Chance
It’s Jesus’ birthday so let’s see what he has to say.
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