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Carl Krieg's Blog
1w ago
It had taken quite a few decades, but the groundwork was now finished. Income inequality produced a disaffected, disenfranchised class of citizens. Citizens United allowed corporations to contribute unlimited amounts of money to political candidates who promised to reduce both their taxes and regulations protecting workers and the environment. Public financing of charter schools had ..read more
Carl Krieg's Blog
1w ago
The events of last week, still unfolding, present to us the classic fork in the road. The election itself, while an event of great consequence, is but a reminder of a greater issue: as human beings, will we continue to bow before the gods of division, or will we come to the place where we ..read more
Carl Krieg's Blog
1w ago
About 20 years ago, my wife Margaret and I were playing Uno with my elderly mother, a card game that relies on being able to differentiate colors one from another. After one of her moves, I said “Mom, you have to follow with the same color. That’s red and you need blue.” “ No”, she ..read more
Carl Krieg's Blog
3w ago
Sometimes I play a little game while driving. I know where I want to go, but there are two ways to get there. I weigh the pros and cons of each route, but do not or cannot decide, the choice then mandated by the fork in the road. Conscious thinking stops and my hand on ..read more
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1M ago
Filling the Void with White Pseudo Christian Nationalism Election 2024 I The Problem Classical Greek thinking differentiates between time as chronos and time as kairos, the former encompassing the passage of everyday life, the latter, kairos, being those moments in human history that transcend the normal and determine the course of the future. The US ..read more
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1M ago
The Simple Gospel of Jesus Sequel to The Simple Truth What I have described previously as The Simple Truth is also the simple message of Jesus, and it is a tragedy that what in essence is so simple has been made so alien and convoluted that it makes no sense. In the name of Jesus ..read more
Carl Krieg's Blog
1M ago
The Simple Truth Guidelines for a Happy Life Thoreau’s exhortation about how to achieve a happy life- Simplify!- is also good advice on how to communicate an idea. Make it as simple as you can. This, no doubt, is why Hemingway wrote short sentences with a minimum of adjectives and adverbs. I have here tried ..read more
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1M ago
After the Big News, What Struck me this Week 1 It’s a picture difficult to erase from one’s memory: Putin and Kim standing in an open roof armored car as they drove along waving to the crowds. 2 The phone rings, I pick it up, and the screen warns of a scam. One computer sends ..read more
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1M ago
Empathy and Confrontation “Walk a mile in my shoes” was the title and subject matter of a class I taught 50 years ago. One class, one month, the purpose being the obvious: to appreciate what other people were going through. For a day at a time walk around campus blindfolded, help in a poverty center ..read more
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1M ago
Jesus and the Childless Cat Ladies JD Vance’s statement about childless cat ladies is not an aberration from Republican thinking. In fact, it exemplifies the heart of right wing evangelical politics. Elon Musk recently bemoaned the shrinking population as the greatest threat to American society. He really meant industry. Back in the good old days ..read more