Month: August 2022

Yes, yes.  I know all about marketing.  They play to the demographic.  When I shop with an online vendor, their recommendations pop up.  I’m shopping for hummingbird food or disposable latex gloves, and the next thing I know, they’re showing me lawn mowers and vacuum cleaner bags that “they think I’d like.”  Really?  How in the world did they connect those dots?  I think there are some serious glitches in the algorithm.

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Throughout history, there have been some valuable lessons to be learned.  Or not. Human development progresses, wrongs bubble to the surface of society and over time, we seek to identify and fix them.  The Reformation, for example, would not have happened without the Rome’s insistence on control and orthodoxy.  Here in America, we have notable example of people that have walked resolutely into the history books on the wrong side.  Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Roger Taney, more recently George Wallace and Strom Thurmond, all stand out for their support and defense of that which should never have been supported or defended. While the Freedom Riders and leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. strode boldly into collective memory on the right side because they “had a dream”. 

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