Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism I can hear an irritated counterthrust already. The president has not driven the United States into a recession during his almost seven years in office. Unemployment stands at a respectable 4.6 percent. Well, fine. But the other side of the ledger groans with distress: a tax codeContinue reading “The Red Road…”
Category Archives: Civil Rights
Power and Resources…
French economist Thomas Piketty compares the US economy to Europe in the Gilded Age. Oregon Live, 2014 Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Climate Change, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism Thomas Piketty wrote “Capital in the 21st Century” in 2013 centered on the wealth inequality we can see all around us. I can see more house-less citizens onContinue reading “Power and Resources…”
Pattern Recognition…
“Last Battlefield,” 47 years later, StarTrek.com, January 10, 2016 Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Existentialism, Fascism, Human Rights, Star Trek The Cleve Cartmill affair, source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_(science_fiction_story) I admit I had heard of this before, but I didn’t know the government gave it his name. It figures because Cleve was clever (see what I did there?)Continue reading “Pattern Recognition…”
A Cult of Ignorance…
Asimov image: https://karsh.org/isaac-asimov/ Sagan image: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0755981/ Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Climate Change, Democracy, Existentialism Note: The Nobel Prize will be awarded starting Monday in Physiology, then Physics (my admitted favorite), Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Economics the following Monday. Thus, the concentration of the postings will be Nobel as they post. I will be “nerdingContinue reading “A Cult of Ignorance…”
Cloth Diapers…
Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism This essay is derived from a creative work of the same title, posted on my poetry blog Monday. Happy birthday, mom. I miss you. Sixty years ago, you were thirty-eight years old. I was one year, one month, and one day old. I was apparently potty-trained, whichContinue reading “Cloth Diapers…”
60 Years Ago Tomorrow…
Source: March on Washington, History dot com editors Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism, Human Rights Sixty years ago tomorrow, two dear friends turned a year old, and ten years old. Sixty years ago tomorrow, I was a year, and 12 days old. The March on Washington happened on the eighth anniversary ofContinue reading “60 Years Ago Tomorrow…”
Megalomania…
You’re going to have to pay me… One Billion Dollars! … Sorry, One Hundred Billion Dollars! Photo: Warner Bros; Getty Images, Jonathan Chait, NY Mag, March 8, 2018 Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Climate Change, Democracy, Diversity in Science, Existentialism, Fascism, Human Rights, Women in Science Megalomania: a mania for great or grandiose performance; a delusionalContinue reading “Megalomania…”
Juneteenth and Equitable Science…
Figure 1 Overcoming scientific racism as a Community. (Top) This figure depicts the barriers Black scientists face in academia. (Bottom) The bottom part of the figure depicts Black scientists overcoming those challenges. Topics: Civil Rights, Diversity, Diversity in Science, Women in Science We are 52 Black scientists. Here, we establish the context of Juneteenth in STEMMContinue reading “Juneteenth and Equitable Science…”
Unsustainable…
From the Twilight Zone season 3, episode 8, “It’s a Good Life.” Billy Mumy plays an evil little boy who terrorizes his neighborhood with his magical powers for any slight. Here, he turned a man into a jack-in-the-box. Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Existentialism, Fascism Jesse Pinkman: You don’t want a criminal lawyer… you want aContinue reading “Unsustainable…”
Fascism and Laziness…
Source: Washington Monthly, “The 12 Early Warning Signs of Fascism,” Martin Longman, January 31, 2017 Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism, Human Rights But beyond him being (obviously) a genocidal maniac, there’s an aspect to Hitler’s rule that kind of gets missed in our standard view of him. Even if popular culture hasContinue reading “Fascism and Laziness…”
Physics and Nano 