“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…

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…

Delivered on April 5th, 2022 (source) Dear Mrs. President! Dear Mr. Secretary General! Dear members of the Security Council and other participants of the meeting! Thank you for the opportunity. I am sure that all the representatives of the UN member states will hear me today. Yesterday I returned from…

By Ursula Le Guin First Published in 1975 With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets between houses with red roofs and…