My Internet Rants – in Blog Form
For years now, visitors to Philadelphia’s Spruce Street Harbor Park have been able to see a monument to Christopher Columbus. But it is time to end it, whether by removing the monument or by rededicated – because today we know that Christopher Columbus was NOT the kind of person that a monument should be dedicated to.
Let us suppose (hypothetically) that you hired a maid with the expectation that she would clean the place – but instead of cleaning, she would do all kinds of things that made a mess of the place. To make matters worse, let us assume that you did not have the authority to fire her yourself, but needed permission from a board to fire her – and the board was reluctant to approve of such an action.
Now, let us translate this to the scenario that many minority communities in real life face with the police.
Click here to see this video on its YouTube page. In the final installment to my reply to One Godless Woman’s “4 Questions for Third Wave Feminists” I discuss the “Enemy of My Enemy” principle, and how its misuse is Read more
In part 3 of my 4-part response to One Godless Woman’s “Four Questions for Third-Wave Feminists”, One Godless Woman asks how she and others like her can get more feminists to listen to their warnings about the threats posed by Read more
In Part Two of my four-part response to One Godless Woman’s “4 Questions for Third Wave Feminists” I explain that while progress toward feminist goals is much further along in the West than it is in Islamic countries, we still Read more
In my latest YouTube video, I explain how with full loyalty to the United States, to my Jewish People, and to everyone else to whom I owe so much as a shred of loyalty – I vehemently oppose Donald Trump, Read more
Mira Ryczke Kimmelman (September 17, 1923 – April 17, 2019) survived the World War II Holocaust and dedicated the rest of her life to preventing such things from happening again. One thing that has always been true is that there Read more
My own complicity in a recent social-media dogpile has been a wakeup call to me on how my commitment to social justice obligates me once in a while to take a break or a step back from activism to pursue Read more
As a Stoic, I realize that as far as I am concerned, for anyone other than myself to practice Stoicism is an indifferent (neither inherently good nor bad). Still, I see a strong case for Stoics with a pro-justice understanding Read more
The two-party duopoly will destroy American freedom unless Americans of very diverse political views band together and unequivocally demand Instant Runoff Voting at every level of electoral politics. Our most recent election has been extremely divisive to We the People Read more