Speech can help to simplify that which overwhelms.

It is heartening how frequently the Green New Deal resolution is featuring into mass news media conversations.  Despite a tendency for news outlets to court a questionable sense of balance and objectivity and therefore inevitably focus on the extent to which the prospect is a political winner or not, the fact that the resolution is…

With little time to spare, it’s best spent to benefit the many.

Now that I am working full days,  off-the-clock time expenditures are considerably  more limited.  Therefore, each bit time potentially of great value, depending on what I do prioritize. Alas,  I have let many days of splendid librarian looks slip by because so busy with books.  However, it does seem important to continue writing out my…

Urging

At the urging of one of the many activist organizations that populate my inbox, I sent the following missive to my Congressional Representatives, urging them to support the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies, like, NOW.  A bit informal, granted, but I’m speaking as just an ordinary citizen – a role that ought implicitly…