On the backs & in the hearts of young people On January 20, 2021 a young black woman stood up before the eyes of the world and read a magnificent poem for the inauguration of President Joe Biden...
Eclectic is the best word to describe Integrated Wisdom. Our focus in this section is on ideas, and we cut across an unlimited range of topics -- from smoking cigars, to cross-dressing, to problems with education, to name just a few. These articles are interesting and entertaining, but also informative and, we hope, provocative. They will get you thinking, sometimes on stuff you never bothered to think about before.
America the Violent
We are not as peace-loving as we pretend to be. The violence on Capitol Hill Wednesday caused most observers to opine that this isn’t who we are as Americans. President-elect Joe Biden said “to storm...
The Bookie & The Bug
Can old fashioned tough guys save the day? I grew up in a tough neighborhood. Working class maybe, but tough. Street crime was everywhere and personal safety was never guaranteed. The days of...
Entitlement
How to weaken a society I am better, more precious than you are. I have the right to do whatever it is I am doing and that means you must adjust yourself to my whims….almost seems comical, except...
The Real Federal Handouts
Entitlement dispersion around the country There are people who gripe about entitlements — the freebees paid out to people who, as they put it, prefer to sponge off the government rather than...
An American Paradox
Holding contradictory beliefs in the same head. I’m confused. In a sense, we the people of the United States still have a Wild West mentality. We’re one of only 14 countries out of 195...
The Big Lie
Getting us moving in the wrong direction. People often assign the following to Adolph Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it...
The Star Spangled Banner
In the Dawn’s Early Light do we see change coming? In these times of pandemics, social unrest, and self-quarantining, sporting events are few and far between. However, I vividly remember the last...
Power Vs. Race
Giving minorities a fighting chance. Recent election polls reveal poor results for the President and Republicans. A Monday (6/8) CNN poll showed Joe Biden with a substantial 14-point lead over the...
Grass Roots Movements
They are the only vehicles of social change. In America, we love a train wreck. Situations have to reach catastrophic levels before we pay attention. So it goes for social change. Legislators are not...
