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• What We Need in America

  

  We need to end campaign contributions. Totally, utterly. We need to end the big, ugly, corrupting influence of money from the wealthy and corporations in our... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Missouri in the National News Last Evening

  

  And not in a good way: Gun-totin' property owner kills a guy trying to defend his cousin, who urinated on a gravel bar Seems fair, right? A "pit stop" on a floa... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Entertainment Overnight

  Link to original, associated article: Just Like Van Gogh, Ocean Waves Paint Clouds In The Sky Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Something We Need More of in the US

  There was an interesting article yesterday, at the Reuters news site on a corporate development of late. The article: Retooling capitalism for the social good... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Oddball Billboards in Southwest Missouri

  I'm telling you, this is one very different part of the country this Southwest Missouri. I see things and I keep seeing things I can't even imagine prior to... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 SOCIETY

• The Costs of Our Wars

  

  Another week and another two billion dollars spent in Afghanistan. Total bill to US taxpayers: $1,457,237,036,956 More importantly: Number of "Enduring Freedom"... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Where We Came From, Where We're Going

  

  I remember when it used to be important, really, to sit down in the evening, at the end of each work day, and watch the evening, national news. It wasn't that... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Indicators of Where Technology is Going

  And that change--big and fast change--is overtaking some big, powerful companies in the computer industry. There were these four headlines Friday in The New Yor... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 SOCIETY

• A Huge, Very Important Solar "game Changer", Folks

  

  This is huge. UCLA researchers create highly transparent solar cells for windows And why is this "huge"? It's big and important for a few reasons. First, it... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 SOCIETY

• What's Wrong with Our Banking System.... and Nation

  

  One of the big things that's wrong with our country--the bankers, running it. Check this out: JPMorgan Executive May Escape Penalty This is a real beauty. Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 SOCIETY

• On Fairness, Morality, the Republican Party and America Today (guest Post)

  

  From economist Paul Krugman and The New York Times this week: Hunger Games, USA (abbreviated version) Something terrible has happened to the soul of the... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 SOCIETY

• 39 Steps--wrong Steps, from the House of Representatives

  

  39 times. Our own US House of Representatives proposed 39 different bills in Washington, all to undo the Affordable Care Act--"Obamacare." 39 times. 39... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Missouri Ranks Down with Mississippi on Life Health

  

  Needless to say, not good. From NPR last evening: For A Long And Healthy Life, It Matters Where You Live From the article: It's not just how long you live that... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "Obamacare" Won't Work? Can't Help?

  "Obamacare" really awful? Well, after the Californians started getting their benefits from it, along with other states, there's this news yesterday from The... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 SOCIETY

• McDonald's Has Sunk to a New Very Low

  

  I learned this today: Yes, There Is A McDonald's Menu Item Called The 'McGangBang' Gastronomically and nutritionally, both, that's bad, even horrible, but THAT... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 SOCIETY

• One Last Note (probably) on the Zimmerman Verdict

  David Simon, the writer and creator of "The Wire" TV show wrote the following on his blog The Audacity of Despair I thought it too excellent and on point to... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 SOCIETY

• A Report All Voting Americans Need to Read

  But so few will: A BAGFUL OF CASH: How the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Orchestrated a Corporate Takeover of Government The US Chamber of Commerce-- a 101 year-old... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 SOCIETY

• KC Royal in the (money) News

  

  From Yahoo! Sports yesterday: MLB All-Star paydays The MLB All-Star game will take place on July 16 in New York. The All-Stars will represent their teams and... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Confirmed: Still "open Season" on Black Males in America

  

  Let's not kid ourselves. The title, above, is precisely what the jury and their verdict confirmed last week in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin trial, like i... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Local Author Gets Great, National Coverage

  

  Charlie Riedel From NPR today: "Author Joel Goldman has found there's plenty of true crime to write about in the Kansas City metro area. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 SOCIETY