Category Archives: politics
A Loss of Trust
Cynicism has been building among my fellow Americans throughout my lifetime. This post charts the erosion of trust in the government, political parties, news and information sources, science, educational institutions, and almost all professions. There is politics in this personal … Continue reading
I’m a Buster, Not a Boomer
When I was growing up, there was much talk about “The Generation Gap”, which at the time referred to Baby Boomers’ counterculture and divergence from their parents’ values. Eventually, another gap developed between the Baby Boomers and my subsequent Generation … Continue reading
Darkness at Noon
Long ago, early in my years of teaching high school physics, I came across an old paperback book from 1961, The Watershed, with a cover that showed Johannes Kepler and an illustration of his first and second laws of planetary … Continue reading
The Meanings We Make Up
Flags are inherently symbolic, with meanings often both subtle and mutable. The associations of colors shift over time and vary among cultures. In the Byzantine Empire, the Blues and Greens chariot racing groups evolved into powerful political and social factions, … Continue reading
Shift Happens
Pew Research Center periodically examines religious and political beliefs of the populace, and it is interesting to note their shifts over time. They recently released their latest Religious Landscape Study, a decade after the previous one. It is interesting to … Continue reading
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