Category Archives: People, Politics & Culture

As The World Turns

Posted on May 31, 2025 by admin

Following the title of a once very popular daytime TV soap opera by that name that first aired in 1956, and that produced almost 14k episodes until it ended in 2020, the title remains appropriate today since, yes, the world … Continue reading →

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Liar Liar, Pants on Fire

Posted on December 10, 2024 by rsree

As reported in the NY Times of December 8, former Republican representative Ms. Cheney responded to comments Mr. Trump made in an interview aired on Sunday on “Meet the Press” on NBC where he had threatened to imprison her and … Continue reading →

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Too Late for the Gods and Too Early for Being.

Posted on December 5, 2024 by rsree

This statement once made by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger about the human condition was one of the few concepts I was able to take away from his writings since not much else he wrote I was able to get … Continue reading →

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What Drives Us From Within?

Posted on September 20, 2023 by rsree

This is a very large question, and depending on how many people you ask, you will get as many answers that might or might not be in agreement with each other. In addition, not everyone has a clear answer, and … Continue reading →

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Homo Ignoramus

Posted on January 10, 2023 by rsree

In as much as a dog cannot get beyond being a dog in terms of how it behaves and interacts with the world, similarly, when it comes to human beings – Homo sapiens -we cannot get beyond ourselves in the … Continue reading →

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A Defective Species

Posted on December 6, 2022 by rsree

“I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough … Continue reading →

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Absurdity and the Meaning of Life

Posted on November 3, 2022 by rsree

French author and 1957 Nobel laureate Albert Camus once wrote: Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. When I read this the first time I wasn’t quite … Continue reading →

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Crimes against Humanity

Posted on July 19, 2022 by rsree

Russia’s totally unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and subsequent atrocities committed against that country, including the deliberate bombing of civilian targets causing the complete destruction of towns and villages and thousands of deaths among the Ukrainian population brings to mind earlier … Continue reading →

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Ethnic Cleansing By Any Other Name

Posted on June 24, 2022 by rsree

Russia’s unprovoked and devastating war with Ukraine with as many as 12 million refugees on the move in and outside Ukraine brings to mind another massive refugee crisis in Eastern Europe, when at the end of WWII at the July … Continue reading →

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