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Another Memorial Day remembrance

Memorial Day was always a special day for me, even as a child. It was a particularly important day of remembrance for my mother. Every year, she made sure we wore the commemorative red poppies to honor her youngest brother, the family hero. Kenneth Arthur MacMillan was the youngest of four children. When their mother dies, my mother, Alberta, was 6 and the siblings were 4, 2 and baby Kenny was 14 months. He never knew his mother who spent the last months of her life in a tuberculosis sanitorium. Alberta remembered the four children gathering below their mummy’s window to wave and ...

A warming Earth in a chilling May

Well, the weather forecast for the rest of May doesn’t look too cheery with intermittent rain punctuated by daytime temperatures in the 50s and low 60s until the end of the month. I do hope that Memorial Day was better than the weather bureau predicted. If it wasn’t certain, the national corporate media would blame it on DOGE inspired cuts or on those old and slightly tired words “climate change.” There used to be a day when you could have a friendly conversation about the weather but today writing or talking about the weather may open you up to attacks on your intelligence, ...

‘Irrational criticisms’ overlook morality

“America now has both the pope and the antichrist,” stated a meme posted by a person who also posted another saying, “Trump is a POS, second only to Hitler.” Is Trump gassing Jews? Does Trump espouse a Bible-despising worldview like the Nazis did? It wasn’t long ago when I walked through a hallway plastered with malicious remarks and nasty caricatures, which included the devil masked as a man whose speeches were regarded as nothing but “lumps of imbecility, buffoonery and vulgar malignity.” Ridiculed as “the weakest man who had ever been elected … vain sterile, ...

Let me thank you for your time

The other day, as I was sitting in a dentist’s chair having my teeth cleaned, it reminded me of the reality that there are some jobs that physically have to be done by people. There are jobs that cannot be done at home using only a computer and an internet connection. It is not just dental work; it is most medical work. Patients have to be seen; the sick have to be taken care of. As to teaching, effective education requires that teachers be in a classroom. In the winter, snowplows actually must be operated by snowplow drivers, etc. As to manufacturing, you can’t produce truck ...

Staying consistent with Constitution: Rights extend to all people in the U.S.

In my opinion our forefathers were geniuses when they wrote our Constitution. Our Constitution, the oldest national constitution in use today, defines the principle of government and their jurisdictions and the basic rights of citizens Its first three words – “We The People” – affirm that the government of the United States exists to serve its citizens. Our constitution describes the three equal branches of government, each with specific responsibilities. The Legislative branch makes the laws and controls the purse, the Executive branch enforces the laws and the Judicial ...

Turning a blind eye to world’s problems

Some 500,000 people in Gaza are facing imminent death from starvation. We are financing this. Their blood is on our hands. Starvation is a very slow, painful death. Elon Musk’s Tesla company paid no taxes last year. That is why we are broke. We are living in a time when there is enough food for everyone. We have the technology and resources for everyone to have food and clean water. Water is life. With water you can grow your own food. But we are choosing to invest in weapons instead of life. We have inherited a world of amazing complexity. We are recording its breakdown with ...