image link Fandango gives us another provocative question. “Is morality objective or is it subjective? If you believe it’s objective, what is its source. If you believe it’s subjective, how do you know whose concept of morality is correct? From the crystal ball (google), one definition of morality is “principles concerning the distinction between right…
Category: politics
IDFA Film Review: ‘Bellingcat – Truth in a Post-Truth World’ — Variety
This film review is worth reading wherever in the world you happen to be. Seriously! Remember when the words “breaking news” used to refer to the thrill of hearing about world events as they happened? These days, it has become the daily sport of autocrats and elected officials alike, who have realized that discrediting…
Orange Disease
image link Evil took an essentially inert orange slug life form and disrupted it into first a brittle, crunchy, Cheeto-like substance, from which it then morphed, after exposure to radioactive doses of dark force, into an oozing orange slime, which, when sublimated into a vapor, has now disseminated itself across the globe, inadvertantly being either…
The Uber-Rich: Tyranny or Revolution, Scum vs. Scum, The Cult of Trump — Rise Up Times
Chris Hedges is one of those rare critters we always hope to catch sight of: a journalist with integrity. Here are 3 articles by him. Three by Chris Hedges: Trump, the Uber-Rich, the corporate state and elections. via The Uber-Rich: Tyranny or Revolution, Scum vs. Scum, The Cult of Trump — Rise Up Times
pendulum
image link OK, time to get myself together and get out there and VOTE. So much is at stake in Michigan elections, especially with the governor’s race. We have had slimeball for awhile but his term limits are up. We had a GREAT contender in the primaries, Abdul El-Sayed , but he lost the Democratic…
Flint: Try to Explain
image link Try to explain to a child the taint in the water when, by its very nature, the child will have no capacity to understand. Try to explain to a parent how a system expects her to accept their choice to cut the children of Flint in half. Try to explain to the public…
Poetry Day 28 — Splitting Herrs
image link Today’s prompt is “Split in Two”, with… a dilemma. A split path. A difficult choice. Maybe even a chasm or schism… the notion of ‘splitting hairs’… The suggested form is the “Anglo-Saxon Riddle”. In a way today’s offering covers those bases but not exactly. It is indeed *about* an Anglo-Saxon riddle and it…
Tao-Talk 