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When you mix gun availability with hate speech on Fox News you get…the Buffalo mass shooting. We are getting more and more of these mass shootings. I know the pandemic has worsened people’s ability to cope but we already had a simmering level of craziness and violence. Add on top of that the looseness of…

So, three months have passed and the brutal war is still grinding on. The Ukrainians have been extraordinary in holding off the Russians and really have surprised me at how well they have done. Of course, I’m no military expert but in the early days, I was under the impression that everybody expected Russia to…

It’s time for me to process the world events going on. The news coming out of Ukraine about cities being razed, citizens being deliberately tortured and shot down, children dying, is just horrible. The Russian military – the leaders, not the conscripts – come across as psychotic. There is no need to kill citizens. But…

I thought a couple of years ago there was a World Economic Forum (WEF) Jobs of the Future report that listed adaptability or flexibility as one the skills or qualities that will be required in the future, but I couldn’t find such a report that listed this trait or skill. (By the way, the report…

So, imagine it’s Germany in the early ’30s and you were amongst the Germans, knowing that Hitler was wrong about the Jews. Would you speak out? How about in the late ’30s, just as the war is breaking out? Or maybe during the ’40s where the gassing of prisoners was in full force? As a…

More processing of what is going on in this world. Despite the risk of absorbing disinformation or misinformation, I will write about something that seems to indicate why Ukraine is doing much better than expected. I certainly never thought they would do so well in holding off Russia, being such a smaller country that had…