"Proposal For Two Years Obligatory National Service"
Lifetime Amtrak Passes For Seniors
"Proposed Cross Border Charter School"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/03/proposed-cross-border-charter-school.html
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/03/proposed-cross-border-charter-school.html
Retirement Communes: Gathering Friends For The Enjoyment Of Old Age
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/retirement-communes.html
I Propose Creation Of A "Shadow Congress" Whose Members Are Chosen At Random
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/09/i-propose-creation-of-shadow-congress.htmlTo Compete With China, The United States Should Promote A "Hemispheric Federation"
Long Term Care At 20% The Current Cost... And You Get To Live At Home
Mandatory Voting Would Focus Candidates On All Citizens,
Not Just Their Rabid Base
Every American University Should Have A "Department Of Comparative Democracy"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/comparative-democracy-and-history-of.html
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/comparative-democracy-and-history-of.html
A "National Suggestion Box" With Cash Awards Allotted As A % Of Government Dollars Saved
Cherokee Nation Debates Its Confederate Statue: How To Re-Dedicate Monuments Meaningfully
How About An Oscar For "Most Prophetic Film?"
The Most Direct Way To Restore Integrity And Vigor To America's Sick Body Politic: Two Years Of American History - Taught Dialectically - Will Be A Pre-Requisite For Graduation
"How To Make Lasting Political Progress"
(Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler, Teaches Us To Win It All Through Our Persistent Determination To Keep On Losing)
Why Hasn't A Consortium Of Well-Informed Celebrities And Progressive Philanthropists Created A Truth-Friendly Alternative To Facebook?
https://newsfrombarbaria.
https://newsfrombarbaria.
"Do Wars Really Defend America's Freedom?" (Homage To Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler)
The Department Of Justice Should Issue Police Hiring Guidelines To Preclude Bigoted Cops (Or Ensure Their Prompt Removal If They Manifest Malfeasance)
How Cops And Citizens Should Handle Pullovers
"Let's Make Photo I.D.s Mandatory For U.S. Voters"
Social Security Should Invest In The Open Market
"Level The Playing Field: Let Credit Unions Offer Same Services As Commercial Banks"
"Let's Make Photo I.D.s Mandatory For U.S. Voters"
Social Security Should Invest In The Open Market
"Level The Playing Field: Let Credit Unions Offer Same Services As Commercial Banks"
A Good Way For Young Heirs To Invest Their Money
Stock Market Investment Advice: How To Buy Low And Sell High... Quite Dependably
Although the investment method described in this post may result in exceptional gains, it is not as dependable as buying high-quality Exchange Traded Funds that reflect the overall market and holding them for the long haul. Although such ETFs can be purchased at any time, it is best to wait for the depths of a recession. The average recession lasts 22 months, indicating a good buying opportunity "a year in." (The average stock market/"bull market" expansion lasts 27 months.)
Alan: While updating this post, I realized that there are many issues that require elucidation if the "Good Ideas" (above) are to be properly understood.
What follows is a compendium of those ancillary posts.
Education Or Catastrophe (With Special Emphasis On The Teaching Of History)
How history would be taught if we weren't fixated on bullshit...
"Do Wars Really Defend America's Freedom?"
"Do Wars Really Defend America's Freedom?"
(In Homage To Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler, Let's Dedicate A National Holliday To Him. It Will Never Happen, But The Ongoing Effort Will Be More Educational Than A Calendar-Designated Holiday)
"How To Make Lasting Political Progress"
(Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler, Teaches Us To Win It All Through Our Persistent Determination To Keep On Losing)
"Salus Populi Suprema Lex": A Revealing Investigation Of How A Little Historical Understanding Prevents A Helluva Lot Of Lunacy
History As Bullshit - And What We Can Do About It: ""Human History Becomes More And More A Race Between Education And Catastrophe"
https://newsfrombarbaria.
https://newsfrombarbaria.
Originalism: A Short Course In American History - Who We Are And Where We Came From
https://newsfrombarbaria.
Teaching Civics And American History: Humankind's Race Between Education And Catastrophe
http://paxonbothhouses.
https://newsfrombarbaria.
Teaching Civics And American History: Humankind's Race Between Education And Catastrophe
http://paxonbothhouses.
Unless Truth Is Richly Contextualized, It Is Likely That Uneducated, Ideologically-Driven People (Who Never Learned How To Think In Context), Will Use Fragmented Shards Of Truths To Tell Colossal Lies
The End Of Democracy: Trump's Love For "The Poorly Educated," And Opinion-Trumping-Truth
Instruction And Education Aim At Antipodes
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Alan: Plutocratic Oligarchy's ferocious determination to dismantle democracy:
Compendium: "The Rich Plunder The Poor, Then Pile the Blame On The Dispossessed"
The Original And Enduring Conspiracy: It's About Keeping The Filthy Rich, Filthy Rich
https://newsfrombarbaria.
The Rich Aren't Just Grabbing A Bigger Slice Of The Income Pie. They're Taking All Of It
Billionaire Nick Hanauer's TED Talk: "Capitalism's Dirty Little Secret"
Alan: Good posts to provide contextualized guidance to "everything else."
"The Phenotypic Expression Of Religion Matters More Than Its Dogmatic Genotype
How You... And I... And Everyone... Can Create REAL Damning Evidence To Justify "Any Damn Thing" - Divorce; One's Religious Faith As "The One, True Religion"; Donald Trump As A Godsend; The Advisability Of Provoking Armageddon, Hitler's Heinous Extermination Of Jews
"The Greatest Generation: Labor, Capital And Betrayal Of The Social Contract"
Why "Absolutists" Prefer To See "Relativists" Dead... Whereas "Relativists" Prefer That "Absolutists" Just Mind Their Own Business
Conservatives And Liberals: "How We Ended Up In 2 Totally Divided Camps, Both Convinced They're Absolutely Right"
"How We Ended Up In 2 Totally Divided Camps, Both Convinced They're Absolutely Right"
St. Apollonia And A Hundred Medieval Holidays /// The Lost Art Of Catholic Drinking
"St. Apollonia And A Hundred Medieval Holidays" Join Forces With "The Lost Art Of Catholic Drinking" To Prove That "A Cynic Is Someone Who Knows The Price Of Everything And The Value Of Nothing"
"Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals"
Scientific Finding: "Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals"
"The Role Of Fear And Anxiety In Political Affiliation": How The Values Of "Strict Father" -- Or "Nurturant Parent" -- Control Our Political Views
Alan: Everyone pretty much cobbles together the bible that they want.
They can do this because the canonical bible tells two different stories: one in which violence is justified but lauded; the other in which love, peace and compassion prevail.
And so, everyone comes away "happy" with their own edition of The Good Book.
Here's how "cafeteria Christianity" - and "cafeteria Judaism - play out.
Which version of Sodom's sin will YOU prioritize?
Remember. You cannot prioritize both because the two "tellings" are fundamentally different.
The Sin Of Sodom: The One You Know About And The Much More Important One Nobody Heeds
Christianity: A Compendium Of "What Went Wrong" And Current Worship Of The Wrongness
https://newsfrombarbaria.
"The Story Of Jonah And The Whale"
Retold For The Righteous By Anne Herbert
https://newsfrombarbaria.
"My Gripe With Christianity"
Fr. Thomas Merton Explains -- In 16 Words -- Why "Christian" "Conservatives" Are Always Wrong
Alan: And what shall we do about legal abortion, the most burning question in American politics?
In the Trump administration, pro-life (aka "pro-birth) factions have already begun to "burn the house down."
If "Christian" "conservatives" believe it is necessary to eliminate democracy to eliminate legal abortion, so be it.
No problem.
No problem whatsoever.
Ultimately, conservatives will do anything -- indeed, they will destroy democracy joyfully, giddily -- to install a regime that will forcibly re-enact the futility of Prohibition.
To Minimize Abortion, Here Are 4 Reasons We Should Focus on Poverty Instead of Abortion
Conservatives And Liberals: "How We Ended Up In 2 Totally Divided Camps, Both Convinced They're Absolutely Right"
Alan: In the end, "the battle for America's soul" is about epistemology and the horrifying fact that nearly half of Americans want to be lied to, want to participate in enveloping delusion of which QAnon and conspircism are cornerstones.
During my 1950s' childhood, any weirdo-relative living in an in-law apartment would have become a candidate for "insane asylum committal" as soon as s/he started spewing the kind of lunatic ideation that consumes Trump Cult, a coven of crazies who subscribe to QAnon, a new secular religion with its own messiah (i.e., Donald Trump) and its own resurrection (i.e., John Kennedy Jr. is not dead).
And that's just the beginning.
Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton are members of a vast Hollywood (and Democratic Party) cabal who operate a massive sex slave trade that also kills children to cannibalize them in Satanic blood rituals.
If you've got the stomach, you can learn more about this epochal normalization-of-insanity at:
"Whom The Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Mad"
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