My last blog post was about the so-called ancient Chinese curse of “living in interesting times.” All the problems I cited in that post are not only still with us, but also have been amplified. Donald Trump is now the presumptive Republican nominee for President of the US. Although the nominee for the Democrats has not been finally decided yet, Hilary Clinton is the likely candidate. Although I am still paying attention to US politics, I am doing so with an increasingly heavy heart. Even so, some other things have caught my attention, including website advertising, LGBT concerns and legislation, . . . → Read More: Paying Attention
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 Comments are closed  Blog  ad blockers, advertising, Agent Orange, antibiotics, atmosphere, auto-start video, bathrooms, Big Ag, Big Pharma, carbon dioxide, Chinese Curse, Crusades, Democrats, Donald Trump, Dr. Sherry Tenpenny, English, fatal events, follow the money, French, George Santayana, history, Interesting Times, invasion, Jesus, LGBT, loss of vision or hearing, Mid-East, Old Testament, opioid epidemic, opioids, plastic in oceans, politics, Portuguese, prescriptions, profit, Republicans, sexual expression, sexual orientation, Sharia Law, Sixth Extinction, Spanish, the good Samaritan, transgender rights, vaccines, Vilfredo Pareto, white and colored, World War II In “That Ol’ Black Magic,” in reference to the Ol’ Black Magic of love, Robbie Williams says he’s loving the spin he’s in. Love isn’t of course, the only “Black Magic,” that puts people in a spin. In the U.S., we’ve grown increasingly aware of the “spin” used by major corporations and politicians to influence politics and consumer behavior. “Spin” is basically a biased interpretation. While some form of “spin” has undoubtedly been with us throughout human history, the “father” of modern political spin is usually thought to be canaries in cages down in coal mines so that, when the . . . → Read More: The Spin I’m In Comments are closed Blog Agent Orange, bats, bees, birds, bomb, bombs, butterflies, canaries, canary, clear the airway, coal, coal mining, Coca Cola, Coke, corporations, deforestation, Edward Bern's, global climate change, GMO, Good Samaritan, health, insecticides, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Lincoln, long-term problems, Mandy Patinkin, Miami, Mideast, military and civilian first-aid, Monsanto, natural gas, neonicotinoids, North Vietnamese, oil, Ol' Black Magic, politicians, public relations, Robbie Williams, sea-level rise, short-term thinking, Spin, Stephen Colbert, stone age, stop the bleeding, The Late Show, trees, Vietnam War, walking dead, well-being Those of you who have been regular readers of this blog know that we’ve recently been through a winter of discontent and spent some time south of the border. Now that spring has arrived in Michigan I thought it was time to give my blog a facelift with new header images, a new title, and new overarching theme: Embracing Reality. The theme is a result of my having been influenced by a saying from Byron Katie’s book, Loving What Is, in which she says that When you argue with reality, you lose—but only 100 percent of the time. If you’ve . . . → Read More: New Directions Comments are closed Blog Agent Orange, agribusiness, anti-vaxxers, autism, Byron Katie, Catholic, childhood diseases, church, Copernicus, corn, crops, evidence, Galileo, geocentric, GMO, GMOs, golden rice, heliocentric, herbicides, hypnosis, medical, NLP, pesticides, plague, politics, reality, RoundUp, Sherry Tenpenny, small pox, soybeans, spring, torture, vaccinations, Vietnam, Vitamin A |
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