Sitting with palms folded and fingers interlocked
holding a dropping chin
I watch my Grandfather Clock in front of me.
The second hand is making its journey,
Tedious- very used to this path,
a regular for years and years since it was born.
What else ? The legs are chained.
Exploitation Around the World
Many people don’t know that western countries are a part of human exploitation. People think it’s only located in third world countries, but it isn’t. What many people fail to realize is that there are many different types of exploitation.
Legalizing Marijuana Does Not Make It Safe
No discussion about legalization should end without the topic of children at least coming up as a part of the discussion. What should not happen is for children to be used as a weapon in a war of words.
On Reading Don Quixote
For the most part people today read Don Quixote because they are told that it is a classic, the first modern novel in any European language. Reading it becomes an obligation of being a well-rounded student of the humanities, and this cultural assumption stands in the way of engaging with the text.
Our Selective Empathy
But where is the intense global mourning and outrage for the victims of Boko Haram in Nigeria? For those who died in the central station in Ankara? For the victims of Flight 9268? Is our grief for them less because they are geographically farther away from us than Paris? Or is there another reason?
Are Stiffer Fines Coming For The No.1 Killer On Our Roads?
With the veritable explosiveness of smartphone ownership we’ve seen in North America over the last decade, there has been an equally shocking growth in the number of fatal motor vehicle accidents related to distracted driving that occur each year. Distracted driving due to cellphone use has become such a big problem that it has even surpassed driving under the influence of alcohol as the leading killer on our roadways.
My Nickname: A Cautionary Tale
We have seen the devastation that racism can perpetrate when the ignorance and hate embedded within it are allowed to fester in silence at the margins of our society. But where does this sort of racism come from? I was introduced to the awfulness of the concept and its racialized words and their effect at our family dinner table.
“You’re beginning to believe the illusions we’re spinning here” (Part Two)
More than at any other time in recent memory, I am hearing the lament that the world is in a terrible state and that things just seem to be getting worse.
“You’re beginning to believe the illusions we’re spinning here” (Part One)
News organizations depend on our uncritical consumption of such stories as the Boston Marathon bombing and on their ability to manipulate our emotions through carefully selected imagery, sound bites, and the testimony of victims, bystanders, and “experts” of all kinds, in order to sell the products that are advertised during the coverage of such tragic spectacles.
Marketing Ourselves
The human tendency to self cherish is the main dish of our existence. Humans have been eating it up, probably since the beginning of our species. In addition to the main dish is a set of side dishes called consumerism, capitalism, and commodification. Ever seductive, they add endless flavors and textures onto the main dish. I suppose it might be the case that plain old self cherishing gets kind of dull after awhile. It’s so much more exciting to be the hot, new product on the block. Or the respected, reliable old one.
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