The Way It Can Be

Weather Weapons and International Law     It seems clear, as an increasing number of reports and credible sources such as the Indian ...

Trump as a modern Huey Long                                                            While they are many differences between Do...

There are so many pending catastrophes, so many tipping points, that it seems almost futile to attempt to remedy anything. But we try....

The charities plead for money and show the poor suffering children and others who see this will often observe that this is the result of ov...

Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Maple Leaf Flag. By any standard, it would be a momentous occasion, in any country. Ex...

Let's do a thought experiment to try and explain how many of the statements in Zen and other equivalent philosophies can make sense. Lik...

Right Remembrance by Louis Evan Palmer    A war is a crime. It is a thing that is both small and enormous and merciless and rending an...

That search is very much like opening nesting dolls, wandering in houses of mirrors & trying to keep track of endless ripples in an un...

Avoid can range from flight to prescient planning but it always entails not having to go against whatever it is that one wanted to avoid. ...

Our life appears to be defined by illusion - not an illusion in the sense of not being real or not existing but an illusion in the sense t...

One of the frequent observations during the Watergate scandal was that if the United States had been a parliamentary democracy, the whol...

It's a construct of the age of capital - a person devoid of characteristics unrelated to the production of goods and services. People ...

Modern medicine is approaching the time when it can grow a fetus to a full-term baby. When we can do that, and safely store (i.e. freeze...

When one's sees or hears or reads about Jerry Sandusky & Lance Armstrong, one can't help being  struck by their stolid unbli...

Canada apparently spent all that time and effort becoming independent of Great Britain for naught because in a twinkling, our Minister for...

When the modern Olympics were reconstituted in 1896, there were few, if any, international sporting events. Bringing athletes together ev...

Continuity out of Points, Motion out of Snapshots Nagarjuna famously said that everything is derived from mutual dependence. In trying ...

They can be viewed as the great silencers: open and hidden self-censoring mechanisms that we exercise against topics that threaten ...

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How can the truth be in a book?  It would mean that the truth is in an abstraction and not in reality. It would mean the truth was tied to a...