I may be dating myself a bit, but the Life Cereal commercials featuring “Little Mikey” are iconic enough to warrant the excursion in time. Not simply for nostalgia, but for the misunderstanding often made by viewers. Where do I begin? How about the commercial? It’s for Life Cereal, a sweetened oat-based cold cereal consisting of …
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Gay Vegan Socialists Won’t Let Me Say Merry Christmas!
It was early 2017 when I saw a bumper sticker on a car in the parking lot of a business complex. It read: “We Can Finally Say Merry Christmas Again.” We know who had just taken office that January in Washington D.C., and any doubt as to if the bumper sticker was sarcasm or not, …
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Three Dollar Meal
The discussion about eating a meal for $3.00 was mentioned by US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recently, when she expressed that people could get a nutritious meal for three dollars. She made the example of “a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla, and one other thing.”There has been much ridicule toward …
We Will Need Some Oskar Schindlers
This isn’t about Oskar Schindler, but relates to what he did. Steven Spielberg made a movie about the man called Schindler’s List. The short summary is that Oskar Schindler used slave labor in his factory as a way of keeping them from being sent to extermination camps. There’s a lot to the story, and the …
Juneteenth
The guy asked me why we needed to have a holiday for Juneteenth? Everybody is equal now, so why make a big deal out of what only benefited one group of people? I knew the guy for some years, and I knew he didn’t think of himself as racist. But let’s be clear, those shoes …
Forest Bathing
(Shinrin-Yoku) Shinrin-Yoku, which in English you’ll hear called Forest Bathing, is a practice of immersion in nature, and in particular in the forest. As one can see from the name, the term originated in Japan where the practice is a part of the culture. Studies have shown actual physical benefits from forest bathing beyond the …
Why Isn’t Barack Obama White?
First let me say that this is a rhetorical question. I don’t expect anyone except me to answer this. And I am addressing this question primarily to white Americans, though I welcome anyone to read it. And for full disclosure, I am a white descendant of Colonial era European white people, as well as later …
The Leap
The leap refers to people mentally crossing the gap between what we can know and what we believe without knowing. What we can reason out to be true, versus what we must believe intuitively. All supernatural claims are leaps. In each case some assumption must be made that is outside of explanation within our natural …
Pepper
It’s in the shaker on your table next to the salt. Or maybe in a tall, wooden mill waiting to be ground onto a salad or into a dish. It is boringly commonplace, and often not even mentioned when people are listing the spices they use. Pepper. As everyone but me already knew, pepper (piper …
Things We Should Do before 2025
It is hard to express my concern for America in the coming years. The election of Donald Trump to a second term as President comes with enormous peril for many. Here are some thoughts about what we can and should do: First, we need to support those institutions, groups, and individuals who have the resources …