Category Archives: politics

I Voted For Jill Stein, and I Feel Fine!

Today, Tuesday Nov. 6 is the big election day. Most Americans will be lining up to cast their votes for the presidential candidates of the Political Duopoly. But not me. We have a very efficient early vote-by-mail system here in the state of Washington. So I’ve already casted my ballot a week ago. And I [...]

On Integral Civics and the Fallacy of the “Lesser Evil”

It’s Presidential election season. And, this time, I refuse to choose between the “lesser of two evils.” I cautiously voted for Pres. Obama in 2008. He didn’t have much experience back then. But, like most people, I gave him the benefit of the doubt. Now that there are public records on what kind of President [...]

On Sam Harris and the Limits of Conversational Intolerance

It’s interesting to see that my posts on Sam Harris’s FB page got deleted. Lately I’ve been highly critical of Sam ever since he posted on his blog his support for racial/religious profiling. So aside from my own critique I’ve been posting articles on Sam’s page with a common theme: the War on Terror is [...]