The Nation is conducting a survey of the top protest songs of all time. If you want to tell them your choice, go here. And here are the choices of one of The Nation editors along with the choices of some people he surveyed. Some of those mentioned are Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” Sinead O’Connor’s [...]
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It’s hard to believe that the U.S. Army has something known as the “Spiritual Fitness Test.” According to an NPR report, Brig. Gen. Rhonda Cornum, director of something called “Comprehensive Soldier Fitness,” supposedly found data that “spiritual fitness has a positive impact on quality of life, on coping and on mental health.” Since that “finding,” the [...]
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Peter Dreier of The Nation has put together a slide show of the “Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century.” It’s interesting reading, especially for a liberal/progressive like me. According to Dreier, the list (which is in chronological sequence “in terms of their early important contributions”), the 50 are people: who helped change America [...]
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Well, actually, evolution has no absolute proof (only mathematicians can “prove” anything), but is as close to being accepted as a scientific fact as any theory can be. I will assume that readers of this blog accept evolution. But, as hard as it is to believe, 44% of the American public deny evolution and think [...]
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For the past five days, I was vacationing (and doing a lot of hiking) in the Peaks of Otter area in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The lodge where we were staying had no cell phone access, no TV in the rooms, no land phones in the rooms, and no internet access. Very strange [...]
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