I’ve noticed how many Facebook posts are about what’s wrong with the other side. My liberal friends spend much more time finding fault with conservatives than promoting their own ideas, and vice versa.
Category: Politics
Questions for My Father
Dad, what were you thinking and how were you feeling when you left your little shtetl of Shershov in 1921 and set out alone for the United States? At the age of 23, what made you go? Hunger? War? Pogroms? Poverty? You left behind a brother and sister in that swampy town in what’s now…
Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires
I used that title for a sermon I delivered in February 2012 about income inequality. The phrase, which has been attributed to Steinbeck, is a very loose paraphrase from his “America and Americans”: Socialism never took root in America because Americans don’t see themselves as poor – only temporarily embarrassed millionaires. I added that, speaking as…
I Know How Joe Biden Feels
Joe and I are both in that stage of mourning where we must find our new normal.
What Lives Matter? – A sermon by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar – YouTube
We Unitarian Universalists drive people away from our congregations by adopting a cause or phrase du jour and demonizing anyone who is not ready to adopt it. Currently, it’s “Black Lives Matter.” This sermon by the Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar does a stellar job of explaining why the phrase, and the movement, are important, without…
The Religion of Our Forefathers
What did our founding fathers believe?
NYTimes Op-Ed – Mr. Smith Rewrites the Constitution
Op-Ed Contributor – Mr. Smith Rewrites the Constitution – NYTimes.com. This is a fascinating and convincing article in this morning’s New York Times arguing that the Constitution calls for majority rule in the Senate for everything except the very few specific instances that require a super-majority. By that logic, the 60-vote requirement for cloture is…
Melting-Pot Dharma 