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Where Jill Stands on the Four Main Issues
Jill Stein, 2016 Green Party Presidential Nominee After yesterday’s post about the four main issues over which I’m choosing not to vote for the Democratic Party’s candidate for President in my...
View Article“We Don’t Need to Hate Trump to Stop Him.”
Check out my spiritual site for a reference to an excellent personal essay about how A Course in Miracles can help us deal more spiritually with the rise of Donald Trump in American politics.
View ArticleJill’s Star Gets Some Tarnish
I learned three things about Green Party Presidential candidate and presumptive nominee Dr. Jill Stein tonight that I found troubling. She’s still got my support but now I’m a bit more wary of her...
View ArticleThe Jill Stein-Noam Chomsky Dust-Up: He’s Right, She’s Being a Bit Demagogic
Back in May, the website Democracy Now! published an interview with liberal icon Noam Chomsky in which he opined that if he were living in a swing state and the election was close, he would feel...
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“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war”– Julius Caesar
Try this one on for size. I find it a bit too close to home for the United States over the past 15-20 years. Roman Emperor Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE) Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in...
View ArticleTrump: Citizen or Taxpayer? Brooks Asks
David Brooks in his NYT column for today entitled,”Trump, Taxes and Citizenship,” offers this insight: ”You can say that a billionaire paying no taxes is fine and legal. But you have to adopt an...
View ArticleI’m Going Home Sunday to Continue Healing!
For those of you following the latest Shafer Health Saga, I’ll be returning home to continue the healing process on Sunday morning. The consensus is that I have progressed far faster than expected...
View ArticleMore Fragmentation in the Progressive Ranks
I’ve written recently here about my hope that the Progressive movement in the U.S. would begin to coalesce around a single leader or small group of leaders to unite behind the important causes of a day...
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Carl Sagan’s Prescient Quotation Foreshadows Trumpian Ignorance
I ran across this quotation from Carl Sagan this morning. Given some of the Donald’s recent executive actions and many of his Cabinet nominations, I felt it was appropriate to share with you. Science...
View ArticleWhat Did We Expect?
More and more pundits are pointing it out. In his first week in office, Trump has given us pretty much exactly what he warned us he would. Why do we keep assuming the best from this guy? Maybe it’s the...
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Even Trump Can’t Destroy the Environment
The assault on the environment has begun in earnest. The effort to debunk and de-emphasize the global warming catastrophe looming just over the horizon is already moving into high gear. A litany of all...
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The Reach of Your Words
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. — Edward R. Murrow, iconic American journalist from the days when...
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“One of the Most Bizarre Hirings in NFL History”: Niners Bring in Rookie GM
In what Matt Barbato of all22.com called, quite correctly, “one of the most bizarre hirings in NFL history,” the San Francisco 49ers just hired a former player with zero front office experience to be...
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The Great Tom Brady Resurrection of 2017
Wow. Midway through the third quarter of yesterday’s Super Bowl LI, I turned to my wife and said, “This one’s in the bag.” The Falcons were up by 25 points (28-3), the Patriots had been looking like...
View ArticleNiners’ Lynch’s First Hire Gives Me Hope
When the 49ers announced they’d hired rookie front-office guy John Lynch as their new general manager recently, I took a jaundiced view. The team, I said, is about to enter a rebuilding period that...
View ArticleLonging for President Bartlett
Washington Post political columnist Kathleen Parker — one of the keenest observers of the American political scene — brought a tear of nostalgia to my eyes this morning with this comment in a...
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Giants’ 2017 Starting Rotation Isn’t as Solid as it Looks
As the start of Spring Training draws ever nearer, however slowly it seems, talk around the Hot Stove frequently turns to the Giants and their formidable-seeming starting rotation. No doubt that,...
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Pitchers & Catchers Report! Spring Training Starts! Now, About that Bullpen…
Hip, hip, hooray! Spring Training 2017 officially started today for the San Francisco Giants, with pitchers and catchers reporting to Scottsdale and slated for their first workouts tomorrow. Spring...
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Giants Bullpen Gains Some Seasoning, But…
Just as Spring Training opened yesterday for the Giants in Scottsdale, the team announced the signing of relief pitcher David Hernandez, late of the D-Backs, to a one-year minor league contract....
View ArticleI Have a New Blogging Place!
For the past few months I’ve been working with Job One for Humanity, a non-profit dedicated to slowing and stopping global warming. I’m their (volunteer) Director of Strategic Communications. My first...
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