#LanguageLearning & Mass Transit to Build Empathy via Esperanto — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Esperanto is a very simple language to learn, by design.  Given the interest readers have expressed over the years, I thought I might share some of my newest language learning journey here on my blog.  It may be a stretch, but I’d also like to note that some of my most fun and interesting […]

#LanguageLearning & Mass Transit to Build Empathy via Esperanto — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

♫ Catch The Wind ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

This was Donovan’s debut single, released in March 1965 in the UK and a few months later in the U.S.  I last played it in 2019, and from reader’s comments I learned some things, such as that the Canadians thought of Donovan as the “British Bob Dylan”!  I also learned that he taught John Lennon […]

♫ Catch The Wind ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

Is It Price Gouging?

In Saner Thought

By now we all have been to the grocery store and have been flabbergasted at the high price of eggs….my experience has been a wide range of prices for a dozen from $4.32 to $7.52….

Would there be some form of price gouging going on with these prices….

A US senator has joined farmers in calling for an investigation to crack the problem of soaring egg prices. Government data shows the national average retail price for a dozen eggs reached $4.25 in December, for a 138% increase from the $1.79 average a year earlier, though the average price nears $10 in some parts of the country, per Vice. All this has led to more shouts of price gouging, per the AP. Farm Action, a farmer-led advocacy group, has called for the FTC to investigate Cal-Maine Foods, the largest US egg producer, after it reported a 110%…

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