Category Archives: Opinion Pieces and Editorials

Where we are allowed to share our opinions with others.

Everybody can find beauty in a flower, or a butterfly or a deer. But if you love nature, then you also see the symmetry and the grace of a common, ordinary black rat snake.   This December, just before the … Continue reading →

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Aya Katz | 2 Comments

Olivia Dahl – Ethics of Vaccination

Posted on November 5, 2017 by Aya Katz

Olivia Twenty Dahl was one of the children of author Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal. She was born on April 20, 1955 and died on November 17, 1962 of encephalitis caused by the rubella virus. The tragedy of her … Continue reading →

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Aaron Burr

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Aya Katz

Aaron Burr was the third vice president of the United States. That was the highest office to which he attained, though if he had not been kept from it by the Spanish spy James Wilkinson, he might one day have … Continue reading →

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Knowing People

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Aya Katz

Would you recognize your friends without their bodies? If you were talking to someone on the phone, and it was one of your friends, would you still recognize them even if their voice did not sound the same? When receiving … Continue reading →

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Talent

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Aya Katz

Is there such a thing as talent? And if so what is it? What does it mean to be talented at something? What does it mean if you are not that talented? This topic came up the other night in … Continue reading →

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Disenfranchised

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Aya Katz

What would a choice by the people look like in a political context? Would it mean that the people, each individually, gather together in rooms, in their own communities, hash out what they would like to vote for, and then … Continue reading →

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The Meaning of The Comforters by Rudyard Kipling

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Aya Katz

Last night, on my “Fans of Rudyard Kipling” fan page on Facebook, I had a message from  a fan of Kipling’s poetry who lives in India. “Sir, Can you please explain the poem ‘The Comforters’ of our dear Rudyard Kipling?I … Continue reading →

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Can I get a toy and a senior discount on my Happy Meal?

Posted on October 23, 2017 by LuckyWeasel

Freedom and slavery are but illusions. Freedom is just an illusion where order is arrived through informed consent and slavery is simply order where consent is irrelevant. We like order, but we implicity understand that it is not perfect. We … Continue reading →

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Taking a Hiatus

Posted on October 21, 2017 by admin

Recently I talked about dropping out of the rat race, and why some young people who were doing this had my sympathy. One comment that kept recurring was that they had better not try to drop back in, once they … Continue reading →

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Benefits of Risk Taking

Posted on October 13, 2017 by Aya Katz

The social, pediatric and medical policies that have been circulating in the United States in the past several decades and up to the present have had the tendency to penalize health, intelligence and success in favor of sickness, lowered cognitive … Continue reading →

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