“If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are.” — Captain Jean-Luc Picard As 2022 continues its dawn and we learn more about Russia and other state actors’ long-term leveraging of malign influence campaigns against our democracies at the municipal, state, and federal levels, it’s…

Delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. at the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly Hollywood, Florida May 18, 1966 (source) I need not pause to say how delighted I am to be here tonight, and to have the privilege of being with you for this important meeting. And I do…

Originally published on Linkedin (12/9/2021) Special Thanks to DefendingDemocracyTogether.Org for maintaining RussiaTweets.com “We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.” — John Perry Barlow In 2015, a Twitter account with the handle @KansasDailyNews launched itself into the Twittersphere with tweet of Carson…

Originally Published on LinkedIn (1/2/2020) In 2015, thoughtful and intelligent civic leaders at the University of Missouri organized an information campaign around the hashtag “#PrayforMizzou” designed to bring awareness, attention, and action to the community in response to deplorable racist and homophobic activities happening in and around the campus. Days…

An excerpt from Life on the Mississippi By Mark Twain First Published in 1883 There was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with…

Special Thanks to DefendingDemocracyTogether.Org for maintaining RussiaTweets.com “And on the pedestal, these words appear” - Percy Bysshe Shelley With the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Roe V. Wade with the sorrowful Dobbs decision, people in the United States and around the world find themselves horrified by a renewed threat of…

By Ralph Waldo Emerson First Published in 1841 Nature centres into balls, And her proud ephemerals, Fast to surface and outside, Scan the profile of the sphere; Knew they what that signified, A new genesis were here. The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the…

Wireless the Only Way Now, Says Nikola Tesla — Mirror Plans Not Practicable. by Nikola Tesla First Published in the New York Times on May 23rd, 1909 To the Editor of The New York Times: Of all the evidence of narrow mindedness and folly, I know of no greater than the stupid belief that this little planet is singled out to be the…

By Tatamkhulu Afrika First Published in 1998 Small round hard stones click under my heels, seeding grasses thrust bearded seeds into trouser cuffs, cans, trodden on, crunch in tall, purple-flowering, amiable weeds. District Six. No board says it is: but my feet know, and my hands, and the skin about my bones, and the soft…