In today's "post-truth" era we find ourselves grappling with a daily barrage of public discourse that blurs the line between fact and fantasy. We are fooled by errors and lies, and social media appears to be amplifying such stupidity. The rise ofsocial mediahas made human follies more vis...
Catholic grammar school taught me that the Iroquois were the “bad” Indians, and the Algonquins were the “good” Indians. And that Balboa, the Spanish Conquistador, was a great man, spreading Christianity among the “savages” in south America. Reply Jim 05/30/2021 • The pedophiles ...
I strongly suspect that my mother’s family was hugely dysfunctional; I know there was trauma. She was not close to any of her many siblings during my childhood; the one sister she was super-close to died in young adulthood (of some kind of “female” cancer, I believe). There was on...
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