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  • Climate Complacency is Bad for Business

    Before “climate change,” and its long list of destructive effects, entered the mainstream lexicon in the 1980s, within just years after so-called intelligent humans had launched its destruction via their mid-1800s “Industrial Revolution,” most had already visualized the devastating signs that we all — including the repugnant denialists — now clearly recognize. Early in the…

  • Business-Hurting Tariffs — and Music

    I’ve enjoyed the brews, food, and ambience at bars; that is, until recently, when, “after all these years,” I finally wised up the instant a formerly comfortable bar’s evening musical group started to perform — and I could no longer hear the people three feet away. Call me a Ninny. But I know myself well,…

  • Happiness

    We all have opinions about happiness — humankind’s “happy state” — and why it seems at times that happiness is present, at others indifferent, and is all too often flighty. There are those who feel that happiness finds us, others that we find it. As with most things human, the truth lies in the middle.…

  • Riches and Privilege

    I’m not a professional who works in the “Mind Arts” — in other words, I’m not a psychiatrist. So I don’t know how much correlation exists between a person’s net-worth-slash-ego and how the person conducts himself in everyday affairs. Yet after years of putting up with the constant news of Rich Privileged Snobs, I’ve come…

  • The United States of Burnout

    The two-sided response to norms and mores (ideas) that today is ripping our nation’s social, economic, and political fabric resembles the oppositional forces that divided neighbor from neighbor and culminated in America’s Civil War. Then and now, animosities created two camps: one of persons accepting of change (then: mechanizing Northerners, now: moderates and progressives), the…

  • Tight Squeeze

    A few years back the most amazing thing happened; or didn’t, depending on your perspective. Either way, it was a game of inches. It was midmorning, a time of transitions. The previous day’s mind had finally reawakened and the sated body was revving in full gear. I was situated at a corporate desk on a…

  • Can Belching Improve Your ABCs?

    I have this woman friend who is gentle, attractive in every way, worth getting to know, sometimes gets into tizzies, and, all in all, is a model of grace and feminism. And she’s also a renowned belcher. (Is it belcher or burper? Each is acceptable; however, I prefer belcher: it sounds grosser.) Any one of…

  • Perfect Imperfection

    The renowned French author Gustave Flaubert was famous for struggling over sentences for days, a week, even a month or more. The excellent French author Gustave Flaubert was famous for lingering over sentences or even words for days, a week, even a month or longer. The superb French writer Gustave Flaubert was famous for hovering…

  • Juror 419

    The last time I reported for jury duty, my number was the first to be called. Along with 71 other juror candidates, I was to be considered to hear the case of a husband and wife, early 40s, who were charged with crimes now epidemic in the U.S.: sexual assault, sodomy, and distribution of child…

  • An Adversarial Relationship

    Ever since Walt Disney and company made “Bambi” more than 8o years ago (1942), despite an early scene in which a hunter kills the fawn’s mother, and subsequent violence and destruction in the forest, to this day most who have seen the movie, or at least have an impression of it, regard it as a…

  • Take Me Out of the Ballgame

    Of all the four seasons (earth’s perfect quatrain), to me it is autumn that once gave the poem of life its vibrancy. For autumn was the “harvest festival” of professional playoff baseball. Spring’s revitalized sun wakens winter’s sloth and entertains its children well, spring’s warming breath casting the lovers’ spell; professional baseball once gave rhythm…

  • Even George Knew the Good of Ample Health Care

    As fact-conscious Americans begin to reflect on the 250th anniversary of the U.S.’s declaration of independence over Great Britain (1776), it’s a good time also to revere another U.S. milestone that occurred just one year later (1777): Commander in Chief George Washington’s call for mandatory smallpox inoculations for all Continental Army recruits and soldiers in…

  • In Search of Domestic Bliss

    Question: Might the billions and billions and billions of dollars endlessly poured into Foreign Wars, Foreign Treasuries, Wasteful Government Agendas, Election Advertising, Insanely Inflated Corporate Executive Salaries, Bonuses, and Stock Privileges, Insanely Inflated Professional Athlete Salaries and Add-Ons, and Insanely Inflated Congressional Expense Accounts and Pay Raises be better used toward Ending Poverty (not to…

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