They’re moving on to greener pastures. In a recent interview on Brian Williams’ podcast, “We’re Back” (an excellent Netflix show, by the way), Neil deGrasse Tyson talked...
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.
Frederick Douglass
A great American On Valentine’s Day we remember those we love. Possibly, though, we should find time on that date to remember a great man, speaker, activist, statesman, and writer: Frederick...
Get Involved And Take a Stand
We don’t have a choice. If you think the street gets any wider because you have money, you’re wrong. If you think the shower gets any hotter, you’re also wrong. Nor does the food stay fresher...
Thinking About Then, Now, and Then
Unfortunately, things haven’t changed all that much. The Pathé news-reels at the local Bronx movie theaters before the arrival of television were always an extraordinary event. The theatre was...
An Eye for an Eye, or an Eye for a Wad of Bills…Your Choice
Is it time for a new religion or do we just need a reboot for the old ones? Many of us who have read the Old Testament and have come across the “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” idea have labeled...
An African American Perspective on Racism
It’s who we are. As a black man in America it’s easy for me to fall back on this: every decision made in America has a racial component to it. I said that once to a Canadian friend and she...
You Like to Shop?
This is all about you. My wife asked me to cut all the lawns around the house, pull all the weeds from outback and put the patio furniture inside before it rains. I told her I would, but that I was...
Dealing with the Poor
A threat to all of us. I am a pragmatic liberal. I embrace liberal perspectives because they serve the entire nation, and so that means they serve me personally. I want all people to live...
Meth Heads & Quakers
HEADING The following is true as nearly as I can remember it, with perhaps a few embellishments. Los Angeles is a glorious concoction of the rich, the famous, the almost rich, the never will be...
When The Fix is in, You Can’t Fix it
The Darker Side of Horse Racing Not ashamed to say it, cause its true, my wife and I are serious gamblers. We got involved in the action 36 years ago through a guy named “uncle Milty”. No, not...