Christmas was formally declared a United States Federal Holiday in the 1800’s. Christmas is the most celebrated holiday worldwide. It’s traditional underpinnings of joy and peace can inherently serve as a powerful human unifying factor. However in 1958 a ideology was launched, aided by AIPAC, to included Hanukkah as part of the national celebration and […]
Rigid Values are Killing Us
This is a repost of a post, which I think is beneficial to us all in regards to climate change. It is written as a blog post by Guilherme B. Guzzo: In a very interesting passage of “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance”, Robert Pirsig uses a metaphor to describe how the rigidity of […]
NRA history – stopping gun violence
I follow Heather Cox Richardson who is an American historian and professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians. Due to the ramped violence in this country, I wanted to repost this article by Heather Cox Richardson. Here […]
Keep Your Bad Manners
Montauk, Shinnecock, Onondaga, Jersey. The country is filled with many tribes. I guess mine are no longer on the East Coast. A driver with Jersey plates caused a parking lot mishap by entering from the wrong direction and being forced to back into the stall to beat other drivers to the spot. When I was […]