Unless we start radical change of our outlook on nature and indeed our whole economy, we are now headed straight for that very place where the fossil-fuel billionaires with their Stetsons and their handcrafted cowboy boots warned us for a half-century we’d be going if we ‘greened’ our way of…

Tomorrow is the ‘Glorious’ Fourth. And this year, it feels like anything but. And I know I’m not alone in feeling that way by any means. I’m also tired of the gleeful meanness of what I call, and invite my readers to call, the ‘rule-AND-ruin gang’. No, that’s not a misprint. I…

You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:4 & 5, NIV) Be like God. I emphasize those words as I ask myself…

Sold souls. What do I mean by that? Simply this: those who have sold their own souls for the ultimately worthless gewgaws of this world, chiefly for wealth and power. Mostly, for the power to stomp on the faces of others with impunity. Always of those with less eartthly power than the…

Something about what we call ‘fire and brimstone’. It can energize and it can….burn. What does it burn up? I really don’t know. Considering liberal, democratic and Democratic aversion to it, does it burn out the neo-cortex which is indispensable for being fully human? Does it burn out hearts, leaving only a…

It seems as if all the mass murders, as they continue, will keep my fire and brimstone flowing. After hearing of what happened in Tulsa (and that the murderer actually bought the murder weapon after leaving the hospital!) that sets my f.& b. moving again all right! …

Here it comes. The ‘sermon’ that’s been brewing at least since 2010 and has boiled over with the latest shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde. Gentle (usual) readers, for the full effect here, you need to imagine me in front of a crowd of dough-faced ammosexual bipeds preaching this…

Historical amnesia. This, plus a refusal to look squarely at ugly facts or to think when necessary, are fascists’ bread and butter. For at least the last 42 years and probably longer, a large bloc of voters in this country have done this. Considering we elected a Grade B actor as president…

It seems my mind and David Brooks’s are running along similar tracks this morning, although I think I’m a little more interested in reconciling ‘tribal’ wisdom with multiracial, multiethnic democracy. Someone, somewhere has written this line: “Western Civilization was born in the creative tension between Athens and Jerusalem.” I can see…