Look around. The world has changed. The NRA is on the run. Even the sociopathic Trump is feeling the heat. Another mass shooting; but this time an international movement, led by heroic students from Parkland high school in Florida, is making the argument. The Republican disinformation machine, that tries to turn victims into "crisis actors" hired by the FBI no less, is shown for the salacious crap-load it really is.
Thank you God--for sending all of us relief from evil. We must continue to RESIST!
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Trump Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time
Hearkening to the famous set of lines about "fooling people" -- Trump has once again shown the way. He once said he could "shoot someone in the middle of the street in NY (or anywhere) and still get away with it" -- because he is "loved" so much.
The State of the Union was not so much that -- as a State of the Trump Brain. He thinks he has succeeded everywhere so as he "blows his own horn" in tweets or in speeches -- his loyal sycophants idolize and praise him. If the nation actually survives Trump -- historians will have their say and Trump will fall into his rightful place in our history: regressive, anti-science, truth-denying, obfuscatory, and sociopathic.
Asking everyone to join his view is his only understanding of "healing the divisions" in our country. He must honestly think that the world and its leaders are as ill-informed and stupidly miasmic as he is.
And that is why we must continue to RESIST!
The State of the Union was not so much that -- as a State of the Trump Brain. He thinks he has succeeded everywhere so as he "blows his own horn" in tweets or in speeches -- his loyal sycophants idolize and praise him. If the nation actually survives Trump -- historians will have their say and Trump will fall into his rightful place in our history: regressive, anti-science, truth-denying, obfuscatory, and sociopathic.
Asking everyone to join his view is his only understanding of "healing the divisions" in our country. He must honestly think that the world and its leaders are as ill-informed and stupidly miasmic as he is.
And that is why we must continue to RESIST!
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Please God ... stop Trump!
Today is the day of Trump's massive claim of intelligence, success, intolerance, and ego-stroking known formerly as "the State of the Union" address. We know that Trump will claim complete success for all aspects of change, growth, and monetary success (as he always does) and deny responsibility for all failure, wrongdoing, and uncharitable bad taste (as he always does).
In both cases of course he is lying -- to varying degrees.
His personality, sociopathic behavior, and bad morals do not allow him to do other. He is worse than a flawed human being; he is a deliberately self-made flawed human being. History will record what a fool he is. Mankind will regret the votes of all Americans that were wasted on him for President, as an anomalous error of "extinction" proportions.
For all of the rest of us -- we must RESIST!
In both cases of course he is lying -- to varying degrees.
His personality, sociopathic behavior, and bad morals do not allow him to do other. He is worse than a flawed human being; he is a deliberately self-made flawed human being. History will record what a fool he is. Mankind will regret the votes of all Americans that were wasted on him for President, as an anomalous error of "extinction" proportions.
For all of the rest of us -- we must RESIST!
Monday, January 29, 2018
Love is...
Lots of songs, lots of poems, lots of epitaphs -- begin with those words.
But for me -- and people like me: love is touch, love is comfort, love is a "warm heating pad" contained within your conversations, love is understanding, love is "reaching out," love is trying to always do good for the other, love is the softest "kiss" you can give, love is a ready and capable arm around your beloved, love is life on smooth energizers, love is looking straight into another's eyes without blinking.
Love is an essential, love is the warmest kind of friendship, love is support, love is ... life itself.
Kiss the sky every day, breathe in the wonderful sweet smells of nature, give yourself every opportunity to love--- and be loved.
And, in the Trump "universe," continue to resist.
But for me -- and people like me: love is touch, love is comfort, love is a "warm heating pad" contained within your conversations, love is understanding, love is "reaching out," love is trying to always do good for the other, love is the softest "kiss" you can give, love is a ready and capable arm around your beloved, love is life on smooth energizers, love is looking straight into another's eyes without blinking.
Love is an essential, love is the warmest kind of friendship, love is support, love is ... life itself.
Kiss the sky every day, breathe in the wonderful sweet smells of nature, give yourself every opportunity to love--- and be loved.
And, in the Trump "universe," continue to resist.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
The Long Good-Bye
These are the last few moments that I have access to my Savannah Tech office. I have "done the rounds" and said "good-bye" to all my closest friends here -- no tears, just joy. Many of them asked if they could go with me -- which bespeaks the state of morale here.
Leaving STC is easy -- but not for those left behind. For them the "greener grass" on the other side of the fence always beckons. As it should. Right now this is a "deprived place" to work -- low salaries, good students, very little hope of upward mobility, or positive change --- especially for the faculty and low-level administration.
Given the budget cuts, hiring freezes, and general stupidity in the State Legislature of Georgia (too many Republicans! too many Trumpians!) -- prospects for the future of Georgia education, on this level at least, are slim to none.
So, RESIST while you can, as you should!!!
Leaving STC is easy -- but not for those left behind. For them the "greener grass" on the other side of the fence always beckons. As it should. Right now this is a "deprived place" to work -- low salaries, good students, very little hope of upward mobility, or positive change --- especially for the faculty and low-level administration.
Given the budget cuts, hiring freezes, and general stupidity in the State Legislature of Georgia (too many Republicans! too many Trumpians!) -- prospects for the future of Georgia education, on this level at least, are slim to none.
So, RESIST while you can, as you should!!!
Monday, January 8, 2018
Final Crisis in America
This piece does not concern Donald Trump: his impeachment, his removal from office via the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, his indictment, his resignation, his disgrace, his hospitalization for mental problems, his bankruptcy, his moral repugnance. It does however concern each of us -- all of us: Americans, world citizens, peoples of all nations, all human beings!
We are the creators of our own future. We in America made a mistake in electing Trump as President; we must now "get past him." We must not only survive him, but also put aside all our own overt and covert attempts to "use him" to achieve our own selfish agendas. Yes, we have a "tax cut/restructuring;" yes, it will aid the rich and the corporations most of all; yes, we have allowed a selfish set of actions to override our "good common sense."
But what now? Now we must survive -- we must get back to a sense of holistic "balance." We must regain and re-establish our morals and mores. This is not the "end times." This is not the "omega of America"; is it the "alpha time." It is the time to love, help, support, and triumph over greed. Be a Warren Buffet instead of a Paul Ryan; be a Bill and Melinda Gates instead of a Donald and Ivanka Trump. Be a humanist instead of a capitalist!
And continue to "RESIST."
We are the creators of our own future. We in America made a mistake in electing Trump as President; we must now "get past him." We must not only survive him, but also put aside all our own overt and covert attempts to "use him" to achieve our own selfish agendas. Yes, we have a "tax cut/restructuring;" yes, it will aid the rich and the corporations most of all; yes, we have allowed a selfish set of actions to override our "good common sense."
But what now? Now we must survive -- we must get back to a sense of holistic "balance." We must regain and re-establish our morals and mores. This is not the "end times." This is not the "omega of America"; is it the "alpha time." It is the time to love, help, support, and triumph over greed. Be a Warren Buffet instead of a Paul Ryan; be a Bill and Melinda Gates instead of a Donald and Ivanka Trump. Be a humanist instead of a capitalist!
And continue to "RESIST."
Saturday, January 6, 2018
Sex and Love
Together, in the same relationship, sex and love are beautiful and humanly perfect. Or as perfect as humans can get. Ecstasy is as close to physical perfection as a human being can get.
I will not talk about Divinity, spiritual perfection, God, Angels or Saints in this regard. I have no "direct" experience of any of them except through "faith" -- which is true of most of us. Sex is in my level of experience -- and is the reason I believe that "sex is not a sin" -- in nearly all cases. Sex as power is a sin; sex with the unwilling is a sin; sex across species is probably a sin; sex without purpose is also probably a sin. Sex for pleasure is not a sin; nor is sex for enjoyment; sex without the intention of procreation is also not a sin.
Religions generally are afraid of sex -- they (the religions) label sex as "the original sin" equating it with Adam/Eve and the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden. So God punished mankind for eating an apple? (More likely a peach or mango?) Why? Because God is vengeful -- or doesn't understand his own creation -- or has some kind of "hang-up" about sex? I don't think so; and neither do you.
If the "original sin" is something as small as sex -- then God is not God, but is a human fiction created by men to limit human behavior. Religion as a belief system, as a moral structure, can be a wonderful aid to mankind. But as a limiting power, as a parameter of what is human; religion itself is driven by the worst constraints within humanity, and is thus, immoral (or at least amoral).
So, continue to resist -- the stupid, the unthinking, the denizens of repression and inhumanity.
I will not talk about Divinity, spiritual perfection, God, Angels or Saints in this regard. I have no "direct" experience of any of them except through "faith" -- which is true of most of us. Sex is in my level of experience -- and is the reason I believe that "sex is not a sin" -- in nearly all cases. Sex as power is a sin; sex with the unwilling is a sin; sex across species is probably a sin; sex without purpose is also probably a sin. Sex for pleasure is not a sin; nor is sex for enjoyment; sex without the intention of procreation is also not a sin.
Religions generally are afraid of sex -- they (the religions) label sex as "the original sin" equating it with Adam/Eve and the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden. So God punished mankind for eating an apple? (More likely a peach or mango?) Why? Because God is vengeful -- or doesn't understand his own creation -- or has some kind of "hang-up" about sex? I don't think so; and neither do you.
If the "original sin" is something as small as sex -- then God is not God, but is a human fiction created by men to limit human behavior. Religion as a belief system, as a moral structure, can be a wonderful aid to mankind. But as a limiting power, as a parameter of what is human; religion itself is driven by the worst constraints within humanity, and is thus, immoral (or at least amoral).
So, continue to resist -- the stupid, the unthinking, the denizens of repression and inhumanity.
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