A wise man once crooned, “If this is to end in fire, then we shall all burn together.” And indeed, this is the most poignant & inescapable Truth of all poignant & inescapable Truths — that once the wispy-thin house of cards that the wealthy have built with our gilded dreams collapses, and once the […]
“The Animal Rights Movement lost four great and talented activists today with the murder of cartoonists John (Cabu) Cabut , Stéphane (Carb) Charbonnier, Bernard (Tignous) Verlhac and Georges Wolinski. They were four of the 12 people (including two police officers) killed in the horrific terrorist assault on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris … Just yesterday […]
Ten journalists at Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris were assassinated yesterday. Two policemen were also killed and about twenty people were wounded. The perpetrators are apparently Muslim extremists … Charlie Hebdo is a French weekly satirical magazine that has long been harassed by conservative Muslims for making Islam and Mohammed the targets of its jokes. […]
“What we need in the world today is not more ideas, not more blue prints, not bigger and better leaders, but goodwill, affection, Love and kindness. Love is the only solution …The individual is what the world is, and without transformation of the individual there can be no transformation in the world.” ~ Murdo MacDonald-Bayne […]
OK, I’ll admit that it IS pretty amazing that the current Pope has decided to courageously depart from the standard callousness & traditional hypocrisies of the Catholic church regarding poverty, war and homophobia … Of course, what I find even more amazing is that so many of us still need a Pope (or any other […]
Word spread across the countryside about the wise Holy Man who lived in a small house atop the mountain. A man from the village decided to make the long and difficult journey to visit him. When he arrived at the house, he saw an old servant inside who greeted him at the door. “I would […]
There seems to be lots of talk these days about “America’s youth” — how young people in this country seem to be steeped in superficial pleasures and seem to show an acute lack of respect for others. Well, first of all, I have experienced a very different picture of America’s youth. I have seen young […]
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