Tag: Arizona
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Now Republicans no longer believe in republicanism
I can understand if Republicans have an issue with the democracy thing. True democracy is direct rule by the people, which you can still find here in many towns here in New England. Those who show up at the town meeting get to vote on pressing local issues, which around here include weighty matters like…
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Yes America, we have a race and class problem
In case you missed it, Alvin Toffler died on June 27. The author, principally known for Future Shock (1970), warned us that our future was not going to be easy. The book was a warning that too much change happening too quickly would have predictable consequences. In 1970 change was everywhere. Bellbottoms have since disappeared…
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The shadows of racism
If you had to pick one word almost guaranteed to raise people’s dander here in the United States, I would pick “reparations”. Almost everyone acknowledges that bad and misguided policies in our past caused the oppression, enslavement, relocation if not deaths of millions of Native and African Americans. However, almost every white person today feels…
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Beguiling Northern Arizona
It is good to combine business and pleasure when you can. Business is taking me this week to Flagstaff, Arizona, which is three time zones away from home and 6910 feet in altitude. Its altitude likely makes it one of the highest cities in the nation, if not the world. I could have arrived here…
Occam's Razor 