by Ken JP Stuczynski | Mar 10, 2015 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{The following is a response to an editorial by the “Director of Public and Member Relations” at the “Coffee Party USA”, published here because of a lack of ability and patience to determine his email address.} Mr. Danahey — Not sure what...
by Luis Clemente | Jan 17, 2015 | Politics & Law
{Published on Dateline: Latin America, January 6, 2015} I am not a listener or a visitor of “Democracy Now!,” but I know about the views of co-host Amy Goodman, having had the chance of reading some of her columns on the Athens News during a past life of mine in...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 6, 2015 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
This TED Talk discusses how local law enforcement collects vast personal data on citizens regardless of warrants or even suspicion. Owning a cell phone and having a license plate can be used to identify you with everything from peaceful protests to visiting a mosque....
by Luis Clemente | Jan 3, 2015 | Politics & Law
{Published on Dateline: America} Like sports, strange things happen sometimes in politics. Virtually no one expected events like peace between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, the fall of the Soviet Bloc or the Arab Spring. Or this. Back in January, when...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 1, 2015 | Politics & Law
If recent punditry is any indication, years from now we will have statues of Obama built like Arnold Schwarzenegger and dressed as Captain America, and “life-sized” at seven feet tall to boot. Enough words can make a clown a stately prince, it seems. Okay,...
by Barry Fagin | Dec 29, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, April 24, 2014} Gov. Chris Christie, what are you smoking? Apparently, you believe that because Colorado has legalized pot, New Jersey is a better place to live. Are you on drugs? Just this week, you said: “For the...
