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America Is Burning
by I’m not seeing it as much on Mainstream Media as I was a week ago, but it’s still all over my social media and independent services. Protests, anger, people whose eyes are finally open to the racism all around us. Spread across the world. Eight minutes and 46 seconds. I live in Canada and we often pride ourselves on how much better we are than the States when it comes to pretty much every social issue you want to name. Better isn’t the same as good, though, and you can find plenty of news stories just in the past week to show that we have a lot of the…
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Theocracy Draws a First Breath
by The US presidential election was last night, and it was a nail-biter in the classic sense of the word, the outcome in doubt until well past midnight. Trump won. That frightens me in a way that no other election results anywhere have frightened me in very long time. His campaign played equal parts fear, hate, and ignorance, and it was just enough. Had the opposing party run a different candidate, it might not have been. In retrospect, perhaps that should have been obvious, but it wasn’t, at least not to me. I’ve been on record since he gained the nomination that he couldn’t be elected, but I was wrong.…
