Are They the Answer to a Messed Up World?

I'm a baby boomer, one brought up on the idea that if something was wrong, you organized to correct the injustice.  We tried to pass this habit on to the younger generations who followed us.

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Patriarchy makes men crazy and stupid
Islamabad, Pakistan

Some lessons learned while spending time in a different culture come from paying attention to the wide diversity in how we humans arrange ourselves socially. Equally crucial lessons come from seeing patterns in how people behave similarly in similar situations, even in very different cultural contexts.

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A recent essay by a rabbi said we need a president  "filled with the spirit of God". After I stopped sputtering with incredulous rage, I began wondering if this was  a fundamentalist Muslim in disguise, or if he had joined the ranks of the evangelicals and fundamentalist Christians. In his essay he wrings his hands at the despair  of ordinary people, and it is worth quoting how he describes American society and what it is suffering:

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Let's BBQ!  More specifically, let's BBQ ourselves from the inside with radioactive particles.

And let's refute the hollow assertions made by the new spokeswoman for San Diego Gas & Electric, who made the following specious and false claims to an activist recently (and no doubt makes them to media throughout Southern California, as well):

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