For me, one of the most depressing aspects of the past seven years is that it seems so many Americans forgot what they learned in the 60s, and many of those born since did not learn from our experience. In all too many cases my generation failed miserably in educating our young. Now they are…

While Huckabee and Romney are teaching religious bigotry, a more painful but also more hopeful story emerged from New York City, where some of their spiritual students attempted putting their attitudes into practice. Walter Adler was with his girlfriend and two other friends returning from dinner out. Getting on a New York subway, he replied…

Today I saw two related stories, one awful, but also inspiring, the other disgusting, but expected. I will make two separate posts from them, but they belong together The disgusting-but-expected one is the current dust up between Southern Baptist minister and Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and stepford candidate Mit Romney concerning whether Mormons believe Satan…

My post is short – but this link from Glenn Greenwald at Salon explains all that needs explaining. The mainstream corporate media is one of the greatest threats to the survival of American democracy. Every day its behavior demonstrates why centralization in media is a threat to freedom and truth. It also demonstrates why public…

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