It’s not psychological. It’s not personal: It’s political, geological. — This week, 19 children in Texas were murdered by an 18-year-old mass killer. And a few months ago paleontologist, Henry Gee, announced the coming extinction of our species. Background Something is wrong. By the late 1960s — many were already uneasy. No longer able to see across the Valley, the signs were there. Paul Erlich warned of overpopulation as human numbers rapidly doubled.

Is it too much to insist upon law-abiding Justices? — The minute we heard about the opinions of the Supreme Court Justices who signed onto the fascistic rule to take away women’s right to choose, impeachment proceedings should have been initiated. Before being elected, Trump promised Republican politicians he would nominate judges for the Supreme Court, only if he were…

Let’s Just Say It: “The Republicans Are the Problem” — I feel like we’re sinking into a mud hole of “false equivalency.” A long-winded essay in the Atlantic by Jonathan Haidt ends up burying us in it. Laying the “blame” for the polarization in American society on social media and algorithms that promote extremism, Haidt ends up minimizing the frightening…

When you really don’t want to do it… — The dashing older man When I was 22, I found myself alone in Mexico City. I’d traveled there with my boyfriend, who had to go on a two-week trip to another Latin American country — he was gathering data for his dissertation in economics, and the country he was studying wasn’t politically safe at…

Even if someone broadcasts to the whole universe Slanderous and ugly rumors about you, Again and again with an open and caring heart, Praise his or her abilities — this is the practice of a bodhisattva. Something is wrong… How did this happen? At first, you think you might be imagining it. But…