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One True Thing About Democracy

February 16, 2023
by Caroline Miller
America's promise of equality, Andre Tate, Are tyrants capable of remorse?, Are tyrants fools?, creativity and mischief, devastation in Ukraine, hate on the internet, John Kerr, John Locke, lyrics to You've got to be taught, Pew research on teens and the media, psychopaths prevelant in society, ridding Ukraine of Nazis, South Pacific, study of the 2020 election, The nature of humans, the two innate fears, Thoimas Hobbes, U. S. Constitution, Vladimir Putin, war as a game
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Many artists have recorded the song “You’ve Got to be Taught” from the musical South Pacific. Barbara Streisand is among them. It’s a song about hate. Actor John Kerr in the original film version explains. ”It happens after you’re born.” The philosopher John Locke would
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Abandon Fear Ye Who Enter Here

November 03, 2022
by Caroline Miller
2020 election, a conscious universe, Climate change, Donald Trump, end of the human species, fear and courage, fear energizes hate, illeglal aliens, Marjorie Taylor Green, Pete Buttigieg, population shift In U. S., race, Reason fails, Russia's Urkraine invasion, the big lie, the inner mind, Vladimir Putin
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A friend of mine took a series of tests to determine her mental decline as she aged. Happily, for her, the tests were comforting.  Even so, I admired her courage.  What she’d done was like poking a sleeping bear with a sharp stick.  If the news hadn’t been good, how would she h
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The Three Graces Of The Queen

September 13, 2022
by Caroline Miller
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Donald Trump, Faustian bargain, Getting Lost to Find Home, Judge Reed O'Connor, King Charles 111, Krystle Matthews, Lisa Fields, prejudice, Queen Elizabeth 11, racial heritage, Scott Jensen, settled law, study on happiness, Ted Cruz, the three graces, Vladimir Putin, William Bennis
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Getting Lost to Find Home, my upcoming memoir, will reveal my childhood relationship with my father was a rocky one.  We didn’t make our separate peace until I’d graduated from college.  Even then, communication wasn’t easy.  He was an Indiana farm boy with an 8th-grade educa
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Theodicy And True Lies

July 21, 2022
by Caroline Miller
America's devotion to ignorance, Covid virus, Dr. Anthony Fauci, internet platforms narrow our vision, Meghan O' Gieblyn, science and politics, Sister Carrie, theodicy, Theodore Dreiser, Ukraine invasion, Union of Concerned Scientists, Vladimir Putin
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I’ve told this story before. Theodore Dreiser gave a lecture at a university where a young man seated in the audience was writing his doctorate on Dreiser’s, Sister Carrie. After the presentation, the student collared the author to talk about his dissertation, hoping to validate h
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Women In Burkinis On the Beach

June 28, 2022
by Caroline Miller
advantages of a working democracy, burkinis, declining I. Q., I. Q. & prejudice, identical twin differences, Vladimir Putin
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Browsing the internet, I discovered a story concerning identical twins. They were separated when one of them was lost in a market and never returned to her South Korean family.  Instead, an American couple adopted her and brought her to the United States.  Years later, when she was
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While Ukraine Burns…

June 14, 2022
by Caroline Miller
Andreas Miles-Novelo, autocracy/democracy, Ben Sasse, Climate change, Climate Change and Human Behavior, cracks in NATO, Craig A. Anderson, democracy's peril, Donald Trump, Henry Kissinger, Joe Biden, Ron DeSantis, Russia's war with Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
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To read the news is to wonder if the world has gone mad. Autocracy is on the rise, while democracies seem to be stumbling. To be honest, some democracies no longer look like democracies. India and Turkey come to mind.  Russia holds elections, but no one would describe Vladimir Putin
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Biden’s Proxy War In Ukraine

May 03, 2022
by Caroline Miller
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Joe Biden, multiple warheads, Mutual assurance destruction doctrine (MAD), nuclear détente, Urkaine, Vladimir Putin, war in Ukraine, World War II
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A former NATO commander has advised the United States that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a signal that our country should gear up for war.  Naturally, someone my age who lived through World War II is likely to greet this statement with horror. Worse, the means of fighting a war h
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Close Encounters Of No Kind

April 28, 2022
by Caroline Miller
end of globalization, H. floresiensis, Kevin McCarthy, Korean War, Marjorie Taylor Green, Non-Aligned Movement, Paul Donovan, Ross Thomas, Russia, Russia's attack on Ukraine, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky
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The Fools in Town Are on Our Side, a mystery novel by Ross Thomas, is not only a good read but carries a great title. Today, it could serve as a slogan for the Republicans Party. Two of its leading lights are behaving in a manner that justifies the idea. Testifying in a suit against h
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Revisiting The Field of Dreams

April 21, 2022
by Caroline Miller
Carl Jung, life expectancy, lucid dreams, Michael V. Cline, power of information, Salvador Dali, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, sleep walking, Vladimir Putin, Yogis
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Truth changes with time and distance, but learning is also a factor.  Because of science, we no longer believe the sun revolves around the earth. The brain’s malleability also shapes our understanding of the truth.  In one study, researchers paid Fox news consumers to watch its me
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Ruminations On Chaos

April 19, 2022
by Caroline Miller
autocracies/democracies, cvhaos, dreams of peace, Edward O. Wilson, nuclear détente, nuclear weapons, Robert McNamara, Russia, Russia/Ukraine war, Vladimir Putin
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With or without God, nature works in mysterious ways. For example, truth isn’t immutable but is determined by where we stand in time and space.  The giddiness with which truth varies in different parts of the world is mind-boggling. In Florida, a group of seniors lie, cheat, and bu
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