Raise your hand if you have never heard of Ed Roberts. Raise your hand if you have never been called a vegetable. Raise your hand if you have never organized a nationwide–and then a worldwide–movement to enable disabled people to live independently. Raise your hand if you did not know that approximately 70 million U.S.… Continue reading Raise Your Hand
Category: Politics
No Kings 2
I went to my second No Kings protest last Saturday. Some observations: The participants lined Eagle Road in Havertown for several blocks. Since we were an hour late to the proceedings, we–my wife Cindy was with me– drove through the people waving signs and urging us to beep our horn. The crowd skewed to the… Continue reading No Kings 2
1,460 Minus 11
So many things stand out to me after eleven days of Number 47’s second term, with the pardoning of Jan. 6 rioters the most egregious, and then, in no particular order: insisting on the U.S. taking over Greenland and the Panama Canal and renaming the Gulf of Mexico (which Google has promised to do on… Continue reading 1,460 Minus 11
Kleptopia
Why is the world, including the United States, swinging so far toward nationalism and antagonism toward those who are different? Why do countries elect leaders with abhorrent personal characteristics, anti-human views, and preferences toward corporate success at the expense of the planet, the worker, and the poor and middle classes? Why do the richest men… Continue reading Kleptopia
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