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Streetart – Zdesroy @ Chernivtsi, Ukraine

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Streetart – Zdesroy @ Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Minbari Mondays, and Two Lessons from “And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place” (B5:s3e20) on Volunteering — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

This week’s lessons:           1.   Those who care will come when called, even to the death, if “the cause is just and fair, and necessary.”           2.   Volunteering, when it comes down to brass tacks, really can make a difference.             This episode begins on December 7th (ironically enough), 2260, […]

Minbari Mondays, and Two Lessons from “And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place” (B5:s3e20) on Volunteering — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Repeating myself about guns

The Weekly Sift

https://theweek.com/political-satire/1013894/the-web

The only change since the last time I covered this issue is that more people have died.


From your cousin on social media to TV talking heads and syndicated columnists, everybody who comments on current events is facing the same conundrum: What do you say when nothing has changed since the last time you spoke out? There are no new insights to offer, no arguments that didn’t prove to be futile last time.

And yet, how can you stay silent? Silence is complacency that can even be interpreted as consent. Ten-year-olds get massacred in a public school? Grandmothers get killed for shopping-while-Black? Asians get shot at a church luncheon? It happens. This is America. Things that don’t happen anywhere else happen here, sometimes one right after another. And in spite of all the other countries that have responded to horrifying mass killings by taking effective action…

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Adult Fears

The Weekly Sift

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don’t yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

William Gibson

This week’s featured post is “Repeating myself about guns“.

This week everybody was talking about gun violence

This week’s featured post is my confession that I’ve got no new ideas about America’s gun problem. Instead, I review what I’ve written on the topic since 2015. As far as I can see, nothing has changed in the last seven years, other than the list of mass shootings getting longer.

I also can’t report any ideas from others that struck me as new this week. The battle of ideas, such as it is, has been going around in circles for a very long time.

What did seem fresh, though, was the earnestness of emotion that I heard from many people, particularly from folks who aren’t politicians…

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