I voted awhile ago and neither democrats or republicans should be concerned as none of their respective candidates got my vote, all the way down the ballot.
This essay is really just a slightly edited email reply I sent to an old friend I’ve known since grammar school. I’ll be 81 next month and he’s a year older so it isn’t as if we haven’t had time and experience enough to analyze what is going on in our lives, our country, our planet, and our minds. I’m afraid I just let my annoyance show, but I think it may just be time. The paragraphs between the asterisks are the pertinent part of an email he sent me.
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The Institute for Economics and Peace has issued its tenth annual 2016 Global Peace Index (GPI). The GPI uses 23 factors/indicators to rank the countries of the world according to Peace, from the most peaceful to the least peaceful. The analysis came to the conclusion that the world has become less peaceful and more unequal over the last ten years.
So let's go back in time just a few months... and see what the president, politicians and the media thought on Jim Comey then.
President Obama: "He's got the resume, but more importantly, a strong sense of right and wrong."
The blood of our country is symbolically flowing on to the ground in North Dakota and related places. The bison and the eagle have come forth to show us where our roots are but who is caring?
If you can still find meaning in this election I pity you. Big oil is telling you who is boss in no uncertain terms.
The indigenous people are fight for their lives once more. We watch and say all the right things yet we seem to not grasp that they are fighting for our lives as well.
The Fort Des Moines Church of Christ on Wednesday filed for voluntary dismissal of its lawsuit against the state of Iowa and the city of Des Moines challenging an antidiscrimination law church leaders believed could force them to operate their restrooms under "transgender bathroom rules."
In 1949, George Orwell received a snarky letter from his former high school French teacher.
Nineteen Eighty-Four had just been published to great acclaim, but this former French teacher felt differently.
His name was Aldous Huxley.
In about two weeks, America will once again visit polling stations and participate in a soon-to-be archaic ritual called voting. As a tiny reward, and also to remind others to participate in the ritual, those who do it old-style - in a booth - will be given a tiny oval-shaped sticker that says "I Voted". I have often asked for a second sticker to bring home for the kiddo, and a weird feeling of pride has always come over me when I gave it to her.
WITNESS Media Lab has issued a report called Capturing Hate, analyzing videos displaying anti-transgender violence and the people who view them for "entertainment."
