Author: Sheila Marler
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Why Should I Care About Same-Sex Marriage?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been wondering if the determination to control the message might explain the White House guest list for the Pope’s reception. ((Vatican pushes back over White House invite to Catholic Dissidents, Catholic New Agency, September 18, 2015. Available: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vatican-pushes-back-over-white-house-invite-to-catholic-dissidents-51001/)) I say this because I’m getting tired of the same-sex marriage issue taking over…
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Putin Comes Courting in Syria, U.S. Acts Coy
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou may be aware that when the Syrian conflict was just getting started Assad offered to team up with the U.S. to fight ISIS. The U.S. said no thank you. Now Putin has offered to help end it with pretty much the same result. You might think the situation is too complex to…
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The World Bank’s Bankrupt Policy Causes Conflict
Reading Time: 3 minutesMasses of humanity overrunning neighboring borders is not the kind of thing I had in mind when I said we should focus on supporting a growing population. My context was the justification of automation in agriculture with the need to feed a growing population. I was referring to an article in which…
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The ACLU and Corporate America
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m afraid I’m still focused on the presidential campaign. I didn’t intend to spend so much time on this subject, but it seems the activities of Black Lives Matter and the support they have received from the ‘liberal’ media need some kind of explanation. The media pretends it’s a question of whether BLM…
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Do Black Activists Have a Beef With Bernie Sanders?
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt looks like Bernie Sanders’ campaign has already moved on in responding to Black Lives Matter. I probably should make it clear that the following is just my opinion. On Saturday a group of people belonging to an organization called Black Lives Matter stormed into a Netroots Nation town meeting with the…
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Agribusiness Meets Reality
Reading Time: 7 minutesI recently said that the words of those who criticize Laudato Si’ have no substance. Now I’ll try to be more specific. Laudato Si’ is a rebuke of current practices, including agribusiness, but it is not the only dissenting voice. In this post, agribusiness meets reality. My concerns about the environment are…
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The Misogyny Suburb
Reading Time: 4 minutesSome time ago it occurred to me that my earnest attempts to correct misogynistic notions are based on a misunderstanding. I thought misogynists were not aware of the facts. But when it comes to the battle of the sexes, the facts are not all that important. They are not even the point.…
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What does Corporate Profitability Have to do with Prosperity?
Reading Time: 6 minutesA recent article on stratfor.com focused on the trend toward automation in agriculture, which this writer presents as a positive development.((How Future Farmers Will Use Technology to Improve Agriculture, stratfor.com analysis. May 13, 2015. Available: https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/us-how-future-farmers-will-use-technology-improve-agriculture)) By contrast, John Lanchester’s review of The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time…
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Keeping the Art Conversation Real
Reading Time: 2 minutesThinking about the biography of Albert Gleizes has led me in a thousand directions, all of them relevant to current events. Where I get into trouble is in deciding what to talk about first. Sometimes I think the French art conversation is the place to start since it’s part of the larger…
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Middle Eastern Christians; death, exodus, betrayal and silence – Al Arabiya News
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMiddle Eastern Christians; death, exodus, betrayal and silence – Al Arabiya News.