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“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and, above all, those who live without love” (spirit of school headmaster Albus Dumbledore in Harry Pott...

One almost gets the impression that the Republican and Democratic parties are still unaware of the non-corporately-commissioned polls showing that a m...

Though sympathetic, I used to look down on those who had ‘allowed’ themselves to become heavily addicted. Yet I myself have suffered enough unrelentin...

While John the Baptist believed in him as the one true savior, Jesus’ nature and teachings nevertheless left John troubled by his apparently contradic...

It seems the superfluous-wealth desires of the few, and especially the one, increasingly outweigh the life-necessity needs of the many. And our corpor...

I awoke from another very bad dream, a reincarnation nightmare where having blessedly died I’m being bullied towards rebirth into human form despite m...

Palestinian supporters and human rights activists around the world are quite understandably frustrated and even angry about so many nations’ political...

And then there are the ugly external politics of polarization, perhaps in part for its own sake. Within social media the polarized views are especiall...

I have long been, and still am, publicly critical of what I see as clear maltreatment of the general Palestinian people by the state of Israel and, wi...

I awoke from another very bad dream, a reincarnation nightmare / where having died I’m yet again being forced to be reborn back into human form / desp...

Understanding the science behind every child’s healthy/functional development can at least enable a prospective parent to make an educated decision on...

Due to the Only If It’s In My Own Back Yard mindset, the prevailing collective attitude, however implicit or subconscious, basically follows: ‘Why sho...

The world is on fire, literally and figuratively. Collectively, we humans are hopelessly prone to the politics of scale and differences, both real and...

In late October, a Globe and Mail columnist wrote how during a recent concert at Vancouver’s Hollywood Theatre,“a band member said something about a f...

American, Canadian governance, unlike China's, is heavily steered and therefore disadvantaged by corporate interests, sometimes through economic intim...

Maybe some securely allied nations, including the U.S. and Canada (and Taiwan, of course, if that's even possible), combining their resources could go...

Maybe animal-eating is as bad for one's spirit as it seemingly is for one's body. Much, if not most, of the plentiful violence committed by humankind ...

Scripture was written by human beings who unwittingly created God’s nature in their own fallible, typically angry and vengeful image – especially the ...

It wasn't until Russian men began being drafted to fight an apparently losing violent invasion that these major protests fired up. Very few Russians, ...

Too much very important news — notably worldly suffering and tragedy — was overridden/omitted to make available as much newsprint and broadcast-time a...

Winnipeg-based Canadian Centre for Child Protection recently stated they're concerned that "adolescent boys are being targeted primarily on social med...

Liberal democracies cannot prevent anyone from bearing children, including those who insist upon procreating regardless of their inability to raise ch...

During my teens , I observed how, in general, by ‘swinging first’ a person potentially places himself (or herself) in an unanticipated psychological d...

Although some identifiable groups have been brutally victimized throughout history a disproportionately large number of times, the victims of one plac...

There are people who fear a fiery 'eternal life' in that other place, unaware that the burning may not be literal. ... A few decades ago I learned fro...

How about a corp-ocracy? ... I've long viewed such figureheads as U.S. presidents and Canadian prime ministers as being mostly symbolically ‘in charge...

I don't know about animals, but higher human intelligence seems to be accompanied by a proportionate potential for evil, or malice for malice’s sake. ...

Putin-Russia’s apparent fear of NATO expansion, though especially the deployment of additional U.S. anti-nuclear-missile defense-system batteries, fur...

When a federal government promises Canadians universal generic-brand medication coverage (and such promises are extremely rare here), the pharmaceutic...

As one who has taken three COVID-vaccine injections, I basically believe the mainstream science behind the vaccines’ safety and reliability. Still, I'...

Powerful business interests can debilitate our high-level elected officials through implicit or explicit threats to transfer or eliminate jobs and cap...

I came upon a study that formally discovered what should have been the obvious. The following quoted text was taken from the study’s 13-page report: “...

Mass addiction to fossil fuel products by the larger public undoubtedly helps keep the average consumer quiet about the planet’s greatest polluter, le...

Since bad news is what sells, what we typically get from the mainstream news-media are unending cases of interracial disharmony. ... While there’s res...

I typically receive the annual influenza vaccination every fall, but for the last few years I’ve specifically asked for a placebo ... to which I recei...

Many migrants from the southern hemisphere are fleeing from climactic-change-related chronic crop failure that is mostly caused by the northern hemisp...

I sometimes wonder whether general male violence, philandering, sexism and controlling behavior toward girls/women is related to the same constraining...

Although there’s research indicating that infants demonstrate a preference for caregivers of their own race, any future racial biases and bigotries ge...

Too many people will always find an excuse to despise and abuse those who are superficially different, including religious wear. That was evident rece...

The bitter irony is that some of the best humanitarians I’ve met or heard about were/are atheists or agnostics who’d make better examples of many of C...

Big Pharma has become morally and ethically corrupt. (Yes, morally; for one thing, the corporate decision-makers would hardly deliberately push their ...

At a very young and therefore impressionable age, I was emphatically told by my mother (who's of Eastern European heritage) about the exceptionally ki...

American and Canadian governments, in particular, typically maintain thinly veiled yet strong ties to large corporations, as though elected heads are ...

There are different forms of schadenfreude, some more self-servingly shameful than others. As for the health professionals’ shameful pleasure being re...

A better question for the OP to ask would be, is there anything is Carroll's books that support or depict child sexual predation. I've never read Carr...

I recall watching with great disappointment then-president Barack Obama capitulate—like other neo-liberal presidents before him and likely after him—t...

I think Trump might even lose a game of checkers against a girl scout.

I seriously doubt news commentators' claims that, collectively, Donald Trump’s ardent supporters deep-down truly believe his implausible (even by many...

The following are excerpts from a September 16, 2020, Bloomberg story (by Alan Levin) headlined “Boeing Deception Alleged in Scathing Report on Max Cr...

Even in this day and age, there remains a mentality out there, albeit perhaps subconscious: Men can take care of themselves against sexual perpetrator...