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• Bill Moyers Asks a Great Question

  It is: "Ten years ago this week, the United States started a war that would last for eight years, claiming an estimated 189,000 lives, costing over $2 trillion... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 SOCIETY

• While Kansas Cuts Higher Education Funds

  This, from NBC News last evening at the same time the Kansas Legislature is cutting $29 million dollars more from the higher education budget: Broke and ashamed... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Seriously, How Do You Do That?

  

  Against food stamps and not for a good, "living wage." A corporation's and business owner's and wealthy person's Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Quote of the Day: Whither Now, Humankind?

  "Sadistic flicks, sea rise, assassination drones: are we up to playing God? A tectonic shift in civilization has never happened this fast before, and we’re stil... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Here's Your "Catholic Education" for You

  So many of us don't know our history: Catholic Church enslaved 30,000 Irish women in Magdalene Laundries until 1996 From the article: The Irish Prime Minister... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 SOCIETY

• The Kansas Higher Education Budget Slash

  From Representative Paul Davis, yesterday, from his Facebook page: "Republican House leaders said yesterday that higher education can handle a $29 million cut. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Happy 3rd Birthday, "Obamacare"!

  

  And, of course, it's actually the Affordable Care Act. Just a few of the benefits we Americans have, because of this important and so-necessary, long-overdue... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Kansas, in the News

  Kansas in a commentary, anyway. This one: Human Stupidity Is Destroying the World "In sum and all averaged out, it’s safe to say about 37 percent of Americans... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 SOCIETY

• The Latest in Men's Fashion

  

  I saw this ad in The New York Times last week and was stunned. Besides being stunned at how dull and awful this "fashion" is, I was stunned at the idea that a... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein, Belated

  

  "The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Things Americans Don't Do

  Things we Americans don't do but Australians, wisely, do. From economist Robert Reich's Facebook page last evening: "Besides the other positive attributes I... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 SOCIETY

• The Iraq War, by the Numbers

  Number of years since the U.S. invaded Iraq: 10 Number of Iraqi civilians dead as a consequence: At minimum, between 123,000 and 134,000 Number of Iraqis... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 SOCIETY

• The Letter--from the Local Iraq Veteran to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney

  The previous post pointed out that a local, Kansas City, Missouri veteran wrote a letter to now former-President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Veteran from KCMO Pens Letter to Bush, Cheney

  From The Huffington Post yesterday and TruthOut earlier: Tomas Young, Dying Iraq War Veteran, Pens 'Last Letter' To Bush, Cheney On War's 10th Anniversary Days... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 SOCIETY

• On the 10th Anniversary of George W Bush's Iraq War

  President George W. Bush lied to us, ladies and gentlemen. As did his Vice President Dick Cheney and now-former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Paul... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Kansas City Sports 2013

  

  Tony's Kansas City may say what he will but this year looks as though it will be at least good for Kansas City, if not very good or even, possibly, great. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2013 SOCIETY

• The New York Times Did It Again, Yesterday, in Sunday's p...

  The New York Times did it again, yesterday, in Sunday's paper with a column on America's current situation: The Real Spending Problem Tax giveaways are the... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2013 SOCIETY

• Incredible Food for Thought

  None other than Citigroup itself "declared that the inequality of income in this nation is the greatest since 16th century Spain." Even the fatcats are... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2013 SOCIETY

• More Nearly Unbelievable Ugliness and Meltdown at CPAC

  

  I'm telling you, I can hardly believe these people, the Right Wing and the Republicans, both, for their ugliness and just utter stupidity and callousness: They... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2013 SOCIETY

• The Republicans Suddenly, Amazingly Admit We Have No Big Debt Crisis After All

  The heads must be exploding all across America today, from Washington, D.C., out. I know mine certainly is. Check out what came from the Sunday morning news... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2013 SOCIETY