Nicholas Kristof has a column in today’s New York Times entitled “Donald Trump is Making America Meaner.” He recounts a story from last spring when, in the middle of a high school physics class in a small Oregon town, a group of white students began chanting at their Latino classmates: “Build a wall! Build a … Read more
This is hard to write. I am so angry at the NRA, the gun-selling merchants of death, and the Republicans in Congress, I don’t know what to say. Rather than comment, I think I will just list some facts. On Sunday June 12, 2016 a man entered a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida and started … Read more
The title quote above is Matthew 25:42. The following is from the book Running Dry: The Global Water Crisis by Stuart A. Kallen. p. 33. By 2014 … Americans were consuming a total of 10 billion gallons (38 billion liters) of bottled water each year, at a cost of $11.8 billion. Worldwide, people spent over … Read more