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Dr. DRL's "View from Here": 10/3/10 - 10/10/10
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Dr DRL's "View from Here". Rants and musings on current events from an eco-humanist college professor in Minnesota. My latest column: American religious knowledge falls short of ideal. How well do you know religions? Wednesday, 6 October, 2010. A groundbreaking new study on the religious. Knowledge of Americans was released last week, and. The results will be surprising to some. The US. Religious Knowledge Survey, conducted by. The Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life, asked. Religion in American life.
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Dr. DRL's "View from Here": 7/31/11 - 8/7/11
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Dr DRL's "View from Here". Rants and musings on current events from an eco-humanist college professor in Minnesota. The 20 most dangerous conservative organizations. The Christian Left has published a list of the 20 most dangerous conservative organizations. In America. These groups stand united in a broad attempt to forever alter the face of our country: they favor various flavors of rich white men running things for their own profit behind a veneer of repressive Christianity. Links to this post. Our pu...
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Dr. DRL's "View from Here": 7/3/11 - 7/10/11
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Dr DRL's "View from Here". Rants and musings on current events from an eco-humanist college professor in Minnesota. My latest newspaper column: class warfare is real- and we're loosing! Class warfare is real; we're losing. St Cloud (MN) Times. July 6, 2011. Certainly very few Americans would accept the notion that we are somehow involved in class warfare. But in truth we are deeply engaged in an ongoing struggle between classes that pits the very wealthy against essentially everyone else. In the wake of ...
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Dr. DRL's "View from Here": 1/30/11 - 2/6/11
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Dr DRL's "View from Here". Rants and musings on current events from an eco-humanist college professor in Minnesota. On wealth, income, and power in America. I highly recommend William Domhoff's article below. First written in 2005, he's just updated the data and charts. It's the best single presentation I've seen on this critical issue. Wealth, Income, and Power. By G William Domhoff. September 2005 (updated January 2011). Links to this post. My latest column: Income inequality needs attention. Using thi...
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Dr. DRL's "View from Here": 7/17/11 - 7/24/11
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Dr DRL's "View from Here". Rants and musings on current events from an eco-humanist college professor in Minnesota. It's the Conservatism, Stupid! I ran across this column from 2006 and felt the core argument deserved repeating: conservatism represents everything that is wrong with America- and has for at least 200 years! Wrong, always backward, always looking to the past to divide us instead of toward the future to unite us. The original column by Paul Waldman. Links to this post. Promote Your Page Too.
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Dr. DRL's "View from Here": 3/11/12 - 3/18/12
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Dr DRL's "View from Here". Rants and musings on current events from an eco-humanist college professor in Minnesota. Why abstinence won't work- and why telling kids it will is wrong. A century ago adolescents reached puberty (sexual maturity) around age 15 or 16. They married on average at age 17, so a net gap of 1-3 years during which abstinence was socially expected, if not actually practiced. Girl is reaching menarche at 10-11 years of age in the US. (Lots of data are available. Links to this post.
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Dr. DRL's "View from Here": 1/2/11 - 1/9/11
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Dr DRL's "View from Here". Rants and musings on current events from an eco-humanist college professor in Minnesota. My January newspaper column: what's wrong with Facebook (and America? Here's my January newspaper column from the St. Cloud (MN) Times. What do we do now? Jan 5, 2011. Monday’s financial headlines were dominated by Goldman Sachs’ $500 million investment in Facebook, raising the value of the privately owned Internet social media company to an estimated $50 billion. Fifty years ago, the large...
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Dr. DRL's "View from Here": My Latest Newspaper Column: Tornadoes and Zombies, Oh My!
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Dr DRL's "View from Here". Rants and musings on current events from an eco-humanist college professor in Minnesota. My Latest Newspaper Column: Tornadoes and Zombies, Oh My! Practical skills still relevant. St Cloud (MN) Times. Preparing for a fictional zombie apocalypse might seem like a ridiculous thing to consider, but consider the challenges: Survivors would need access to food, fuel, shelter, a group of friends large enough to provide for themselves, and a means of defense. The problem is that few o...
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Dr. DRL's "View from Here": 2/27/11 - 3/6/11
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Dr DRL's "View from Here". Rants and musings on current events from an eco-humanist college professor in Minnesota. My latest newspaper column: class warfare is back! My regular column ran again today, March 2nd, under the header "Class warfare is nothing new." I've linked to the St. Cloud Times but their archive is only free for seven days after publication, so I've pasted the text in below as well. Class warfare is nothing new. St Cloud (MN) Times March 2, 2011. It seems Roosevelt’s opinion that ...
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Dr. DRL's "View from Here": 12/12/10 - 12/19/10
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Dr DRL's "View from Here". Rants and musings on current events from an eco-humanist college professor in Minnesota. Why Things Are The Way They Are. This was posted on a DailyKos discussion thread today and nicely sums up the state of the economy and politics in these United States. Worth sharing, I think- credit to MFTALBOT:. Let's get clear on something:. Thomas rightly points out that the one thing never mentioned by Republicans is the role of. In the class structure. One of the most disheartening thi...
