Category: politics
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STARVING IN A LAND OF PLENTY
Food, food everywhere and not a bite to eat. Okay, so that’s not exactly the way Coleridge wrote it in the Rime of Ancient Mariner. Nevertheless, that is the first thing that came to my mind as I read the really interesting article in the most recent issue (August 2014) of National Geographic magazine. The…
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SELFIES AND GENOCIDE
This is another one of those blog posts that may very well get me in trouble or lose some followers on Twitter or something. You’ve been warned. If you’re easily offended, you may want to stop reading now. At issue is the recent public scathing of a teenage girl from Alabama who took a…
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DEATH, SOLAR FLARES, AND UKRAINE
This is just one of those blog posts that can’t stay focused. 1. Botched Execution. Apparently Arizona had a very “Oklahoma-like” moment this past week when it tried to execute a man guilty of murdering his girlfriend and her father. Click here for the WSJ’s report. It took almost 2 hours for him to…
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SOME THOUGHTS ON SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
This is the kind of blog post that usually gets me in trouble. Nevertheless, I’ve been thinking about this for a while. It is bothering me. We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while–Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451. I’ve been contemplating the tragedy of school shootings. …