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...
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.
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...
The Sad Truth about Lies.
Rationalizing and justifying so we can believe. The lie is obsessive, encompassing and consuming in its simplicity. It’s the antithesis of relationship, whether that relationship is one on one...
Heterodoxy Club
Her Body…His Rules By this time everyone and his/her/their brother has weighed in on the Roe v Wade controversy, so here is still yet another thought from an old white guy. Today we might call this...
Doggie Fact Checking
Is, I mean, was Bobi the oldest dog ever? Since the Republican Party has been stolen by the Blundering Bandit, and since no longer do we have what used to be called facts, the world has dropped ever...
The Lying President, the Vibrating Chess Board, and the Stuffed Fish
Cheating as the newest sport. Long ago before most of us had our memory chip removed from our frontal lobe, we had a President that lied about everything and continually bitched and moaned about...
