by Barry Fagin | Apr 18, 2011 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 6-15-06} I can’t imagine losing a child. The despair, the hopelessness, the bottomless abyss of sorrow are all too awful to contemplate. Sadly, our community has been struck with not one but two such losses. As reported...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Apr 14, 2011 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
Unpleasantries I was at a networking meeting last year, when two new guests arrived. The more vocal of the two started touting such notions as “our system keeps people poor” and “if we would just tax the rich more, we could fix our education...
by Barry Fagin | Apr 11, 2011 | Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
{Originally published, with comments, in the Coloroado Springs Gazette, January 19, 2011} Stop the presses! Your zodiac sign is wrong! Every few years, when someone bothers to ask real questions to a real scientist, the question of “precession” and astrology comes up....
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Apr 7, 2011 | Business & Economics, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
As someone who plans to write a book (or two, or three) someday, I cringe every time I go to a “dollar store” from the very thought that something I may write someday might end up there. A garage sale is one thing, as you can find treasures now and then,...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Mar 31, 2011 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
Why am I stooping to such a title? I have no overall opinion of Trump and in fact think he’s hit the mark dead on in some politically-oriented comments he’s made. But his most recent interview is emblematic of the pandemic of armchair conspiracies run...
by Jim Shanor | Mar 30, 2011 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Originally published in This Land Press} I originally joined the Peace Corps out of college. They invited me to serve in Somalia, a country I had never heard of. The invitation package had pictures of camels in it, so I looked it up and found Somalia was not Samoa....
