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• What Have Poor People Ever Done For This Country?

  

  So many in America call out the poor as "moochers" and the programs for them as unnecessary and even wasteful. They say having these "welfare programs" keep the... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2017 SOCIETY

• International Day of Peace, 2017

  

  Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2017 SOCIETY

• The American Worker Doesn't Know What He Doesn't Have---But Could

  

  Wil Wheaton: I was at work today for Labour Day and on TV was Good Morning America. The theme was celebrating the American worker and their accomplishments. I’l... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2017 SOCIETY

• The Weather Events Our Media Don't Seem to Be Reporting

  

  Sure, we're getting coverage, some, anyway, of first Hurricane Harvey that hit Southeast Texas and Western Louisiana. And then we got coverage of Hurricane... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2017 SOCIETY

• Donald Trump, USA President, Today

  

  From former NPR reporter Jacki Lyden today, from her Facebook page. What did you do with your morning? Kiss the kids, hug the spouse, walk the dog, pour coffee... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2017 SOCIETY

• It Looks Very Bad This Weekend For the Trump White House

  

  There have been a few articles that came out this weekend about Trump's White House and Robert Mueller's investigation of any illegality and possible collusion... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2017 SOCIETY

• Divided St. Louis, Divided Kansas City, Divided America

  

  This New Yorker Magazine cover ran in December, 2014. It's still so tragically true, of course, and so very still true of our own city and of too much of... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2017 SOCIETY

• KCPT's "Ruckus": All White, All the Time

  

  KCPT's "Ruckus": All White, All the Time Once again this week, KCPT-TV's weekly news program "Ruckus" was all white people, solving all the people's problems. Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2017 SOCIETY

• Maybe We Don't Want That Amazon Headquarters Anyway

  

  For a different viewpoint on that Amazon headquarters: Amazon's New Headquarters Should Be in Hell "Amazon is one of America’s largest and most successful... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2017 SOCIETY

• You Should Be Watching This

  

  A documentary on Jackie Robinson is on this evening on PBS and KCPT. It's part one of this series by, again, no surprise, Ken Burns. It is fantastic. Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2017 SOCIETY

• Kansas City and That Amazon Headquarters?

  

  Fuggedaboudit. Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You Your dislike, if not disdain, for mass transportation alone makes sure we're not getting... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2017 SOCIETY

• Quote of the Day -- On Labor

  

  Brilliant woman. “The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations,... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2017 SOCIETY

• The Idiocy of Missouri's New "Guns Everywhere" Law

  

  Here it is. An Accidental Shooting in a Missouri Supermarket Shows Risks of New Law Fortunately, thank goodness, the gun-toting pea brain only shot himself. Thi... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2017 SOCIETY

• Hasn't the Time Finally, Finally Come When Humankind Realizes We Must Work...

  

  Look at all that's happened, weather-wise, in the last few weeks, around the world. Consider all that has taken place recently and that is still, just now,... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2017 SOCIETY

• Kudos and Great Thanks to Steve Kraske

  

  In the last couple of months, at least, if not longer, it seems reporter/interviewer and "man about town" Steve Kraske, of the Kansas City Star and KCUR 89. Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2017 SOCIETY

• What the Last Week Wrought on the World

  

  Naimey, by the way, is in Niger. And this doesn't include Nepal or Sierra Leone or Bangladesh or California's blistering heat wave and the wildfires there and... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2017 SOCIETY

• Most Americans Don't Know the Origins of Labor Day

  

  And we should. We should know how we got here in this country. We shouldn't and don't want to go backward. Remembering The Pullman Strike: The Origin of Labor... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2017 SOCIETY

• Could This Be the Year We All Finally Admit Global Warming?

  

  After the flooding and mudslides, killing approximately 1,000 people in Sierra Leone last week and the widespread, devastating flooding in Bangladesh, along wit... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2017 SOCIETY

• Do You Really Know All the Weather Events Taking Place This Week Across the...

  

  Let's evaluate what has happened and what''s going on of late, shall we? The United States' fourth largest city and a good section of Southeast Texas is under... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2017 SOCIETY

• Donald Trump -- What He's Done, What We Need To Do

  

  Professor Robert Reich penned a terrific, intelligent, calm, complete and, of course, very rational but also brief piece on this President Trump that came out... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2017 SOCIETY