Category: Politics

Blog Action Day is asking blog authors to write about the environment. Since I’m a fan of communal action, it seems appropriate for me to participate, even though I have no idea what good it might do. This is hardly an original observation, but surely the strangest thing about the environment today is that it…

I’m sure that many people have noticed that the stories about the presidential election race (the actual election is, of course, more than a year away) are handicapping the candidates by the amount of money they raise. Candidates who raise more money are doing better. The Democrats are beating the Republicans because they are raising…

In one of the more peculiar recent news stories, the Chinese government is setting the procedure for Tibetan Buddhist monks to reincarnate. The background for this is of course a forward looking attempt by the Chinese government to silence the future Dalai Lama. The Chinese government is presumably trying to avoid the confusion over the…

Back in August I wrote about the idea that in a democracy we all share responsibility for the actions of our government. Frank, one of my three loyal readers (and I do appreciate all of you), commented that this was a good way to rationalize to terrorism, and I agreed. Frank replied again to say…

Governments are formed when a group of people gathers together, either freely or by force, and lives together in a community with a shared set of laws. The government is the entity which creates and enforces the laws. What is the moral grounding of the government? In the old days in Europe we had kings…