Yesterday 49 people were killed in Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. I was heartsick when I heard the news. I cried this morning when I read the text messages of Eddie Justice to his mom before he was shot to death. I
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I spend a lot of time thinking about food. Interesting how this thought journey and my practical experience with food shapes my perspective about so many things in life. I’m considering my last post, Your Cooperation Required: Food Choices. Since writing helps
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Peter Edelman, a Clinton appointee, resigned in 1996 when Clinton signed the welfare “reform” law. At the time he said only, “I had worked as hard as I could over the past thirty-plus years to reduce poverty and…in my opinion this bill moved
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Originally this post started with my reaction to the Trump phenomenon. I’m revising it because that phenomenon is just the latest expression of a deep-seated trend in American history and culture, in fact in all of human culture. I’m not adding an
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Did Prophet Muhammad Warn Us of ISIS 1,400 Years Ago? I read and shared this post today about the Quran predicting the Islamic State. I don’t usually support using the biblical text to say that this or that particular event in modern
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I don’t come from a tradition that views money as the source of all evil. Money is useful. Money feeds people, saves people, builds and creates. Money can accomplish amazing things. It can also subvert a political system, corrupt our food supply, limit
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I added a category to my posts and a section to my blog: Politics. When I began my blog, I dedicated it to my Dad, a man deeply engaged in and committed to the democratic political process. He was an acute political observer,
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