Margaret Mead
There is an apocryphal story all over social media about Margaret Mead. Here is how it starts: Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture.…
Category Editorials
Gun Deaths? Let’s Do Nothing!
On this subject I’ve often written that doing nothing doesn’t seem to be working, which I firmly believed until I did a search through the old archives. This searching stuff all started when I suddenly remembered a “News of the…
Funny . . . but
On St Paddy’s Day, everyone dresses in green, there are shamrocks and leprechauns everywhere and even green beer. So on MLK’s birthday, I fix up some fried chicken and watermelon and suddenly the NAACP is on my ass! Okay, folks,…
Profits Are More Precious Than People
I’m old and tired of profits being more precious than people in this country. I fought proudly in Vietnam only to find out afterwards that we were fighting and dying over there for corporate profits. Reagan quashed Jimmy Carter’s energy…
Science for Non-Scientists
First we must define the term “scientist.” Did you know that a college level biology student is a scientist? Yes, anyone who studies science is a scientist. This is quite different for other areas of interest. Studying art does not…
Stupid People Are Loud and Proud, Really?
We found an article in the New York Post, a tabloid full of sensational stories, lots of photos, with super-large, outrageous headlines, such as this one: Stupid People Are Loud and Proud. Here’s the opening: The most outspoken people “know…