Make Elections Meaningful Again (MEMA)

The race to determine who will be chosen in 2020 to serve as President is well under way. As things presently stand, the American People, and hence, the world, are in the fast lane to being short-changed again. Among the cacophony of sound bytes, talking points, and platform positions, a crucial voice that should otherwise be driving the discourse, remains…

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Election Day 2008 Reflections

I just came back from voting. No matter who wins, it’s important to have one’s voice heard in the affirmative. To not vote is to vote by abdication, and is the best way to allow others to assume what your point-of-view actually is. Recently, I’ve heard some very intelligent men scoff at the idea of voting because, according to them,…

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Transcending the Fear Syndrome

Reflections on ‘9/29’ Have you noticed that the media is quick to deliver information about the next scourge or menace that we should brace ourselves for, quick to offer hope for a possible solution, but slow to present real ones? The net result of this syndrome is that “bated” listeners, readers, and viewers are put “on alert”… and they stay…

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