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Queries: Note What You Smell
How can our minds quiet when AI answers our phone calls to the pharmacy and our prescriptions are filled without us ever talking to a fellow human being?
Queries: The Louder They Come...
I was sitting outside at a café in my typical small college town when some bruiser-looking guy walked up yammering into his phone
Queries: Americans in Paris, Hear Them Roar
So many Americans crowding the City of Light too often act like they’re back home at a county fair animal auction yelling out their final bid for a well-fed hog.
For a Sustainable Future: Hemp? Nuclear Power? or Maybe...?
Joe Weinstein: We should distinguish between practicality of using hemp as fuel long-term as part of a sustainable future, versus what to do in the short term to reduce greenhouse gas emission rates.
Friday Feedback: "Good Lord!"
Attacking people who are already paranoid is leading us down the war for more violence which may lead to another civil war.
Friday Feedback: Hand Wringers
Don Clennon: I’m glad that LA Progressive sometimes gives the platform to center-left centrists (CLCs). If nothing else, they can sharpen the thinking of committed leftists.
Feedback Friday: Bernie and Black Voters
The current meme is that it is kind of racist to think otherwise: that these were simply the typical easily led low information voters influenced by the media and corrupt politician hacks like Clyburn who abused their trust.
Friday Feedback: What Distinction Between Insurance Payments and General Funds?
Mark Dempsey: Where would the population get the dollars to pay taxes if government, the monopoly producer of dollars, didn’t spend them out into the economy first?
Friday Feedback: Can Trump Tweet Away Coronavirus?
COVID-19 is probably much less lethal than SARS, but Trump’s tweets attacking everybody who tries to create a plan for dealing with it won’t work, and neither will Pence and company saying to trust in Jesus.
Friday Feedback: Pacifica Woes
Paul Palmer: One obvious way to increase revenue for the radio station would be to have many support groups scattered around every local region.
Friday Feedback: What's Up with Bernie-Bashers?
Joe Maislich: What impressed me most was the vocabulary: Eliason called Medicare for All “Mandatory Medicare for All” a couple of times in her six or eight minutes
Friday Feedback: About Those Government Debts
Mark Dempsey: As much as I admire Mr. Wolff in other contexts, and as much as I believe government favors the wealthy in egregious ways, this article is founded on egregiously false statements.
Friday Feedback: White Backlash
I cannot promise that socialism would remain Democratic. That can only happen when working folks love and trust one another.
Friday Feedback: Iran on the Ground
Martin Herriman: I was amazed at the hospitality of the people and their spirit, and the sense of freedom everywhere.
Friday Feedback: Global War of Error
Ron Rodarte: Recall the need for a “New Pearl Harbor” to open the NeoCon theater of conflict later termed “The War on Terror”. The Sarajevo Event is the key to stoking conflict in a geopolitical area.
Friday Feedback: What Goes on at LA's Predominately Black Schools
Joel L. Parkes: While my long tenure in one grade and subject limit my perspective, I can say that far too many students, black or Latinx, arrive at the seventh-grade reading at a second- or third-grade level.
Friday Feedback: Another French Revolution to Solve All Our Problems
Billy Goddard: I don’t know how to proceed with individuals who believe Trump is a kind, moral, honest, and truthful person, and that the French Revolution was just a natural unavoidable event.
Feedback Friday: Disrupting Capitalism
Jack Dresser: A strong third party could defeat our corrupt, murderous, psychopathic duopoly, but not as long as dissent is scattered and diluted.
Reader Feedback: Democrats in Decline?
Jim Thomas: The chaos and enmity among these forces is not produced by good faith disagreements about how to best serve the people.
Reader Feedback: What's Wrong With Both Parties?
Jim Thomas: The two parties are also united on the economic policies which we call Neoliberalism, which have caused the greatest disparity in wealth in the history of this Country and have destroyed the middle class in this Country.
Reader Feedback: Endless Conflicts
Dick Price: As a recent veteran, other program members would frequently bring newcomer Vietnam veterans to me, if for no other reason than to show them that sobriety was within their reach and wasn’t nearly as onerous as they feared.
Reader Feedback: What Mister Rogers Really Taught Us
Tom Hall: Fred Rogers showed Lloyd Vogel that he mattered. That his concerns were important to Fred Rogers. He didn’t simply tell Lloyd Vogel what he needed and how to behave.
Friday Feedback: Trump and Ukraine
Jim Thomas: The relevant “meddling” which should be discussed is the coup effected by this country in a country on the border of Russia, an act that is totally irresponsible, reckless and unlawful.
Friday Feedback: Those Who Fight Our Endless Wars
There, I would trace out the letters of the names of fellows I’d served with – or just stand back and soak in the sadness. With the same kind of tears in my eyes that I felt finishing this article.