This is the definition of a slave…
a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them
It’s the end of 2017 in the United States and I would like to challenge everyone with the entitled question:
Unless you’ve been sleeping for the past 20 years, or you’ve abdicated your rights as a citizen and ignore all things political, you should know that one of the major problems facing our democracy is how states map congressional districts. The worst of this started in 2003…
In light of recent tragic events and not so recent political events, here is a list of things that need to happen, from my point of view:
We know that companies like Cambridge Analytica and its founding investor Robert Mercer are out to destroy liberal democracy and re-invent America as a haven for right-wing Christian demagoguery, there needs to be a counter-wright.
If you’re an avid reader, you probably have one or more favorite authors, some alive, some dead. No matter what, you’d like authors to receive the positive or negative criticism they deserve. But what does that mean in the context of Internet comments and ratings?
This an interesting moment in political and journalistic integrity in the United States. Up until the advent of social networking, advertising was a highly controlled revenue model. Advertisers had a handful of media networks with a limited set of ad-slots with consistent…
From Real News (and Walter Cronkite) to Fake News (and Donald Trump)
On March 6, 1981, Walter Cronkite closed his final show as anchor of the CBS Evening News.
In 1981, the cost of public college and the cost of living were equal. From that year forward a dramatic deviation. From 1980 to today there…
As with nearly everyone else that’s politically aware, especially on the left; there’s been a keen interest in deconstructing “what went wrong” in 2016, but also in how to move forward and never allow it to happen again.
I’ve been divorced since 2012. I was married for fourteen years and before that I had a few serious relationships. I have had one serious relationship since the divorce.
I have spent more than a little time reading about successful relationships, talking…
I had a delicate incident with a past girlfriend and after thinking about it for a long time, I thought I’d share….
We were fighting. The relationship seemed to have run its course. It was probably out of balance right from the start since the only…