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Why Private Auto Insurance Works for Everybody and Private Health Insurance Does Not
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Gus diZerega
I am amazed that I have heard so little as to why the purely private option no longer works for medical insurance and never will again. The reason lies in the very logic of capitalism and the market. While right wingers have made the national debate pretty mindless over health care, as over everything else,…
Animal Morality
By
Gus diZerega
I’ve just finished Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce’s new book, Wild Justice: the Moral Lives of Animals. Theirs is a wonderful book that in less than 200 pages has deeply changed how I look at our other-than-human neighbors on our planet. It has moved me still further from the sociopathic assumptions that increasingly define modern…
Barbara McGraw on Religion in America
By
Gus diZerega
Last week I went with a Pagan friend to the Marin Interfaith Council’s meeting, to hear Barbara McGraw give a talk on church and state in America. McGraw is author of Rediscovering America’s Sacred Ground, a very good discussion of how our Founders anticipated relations should be between church and state. California’s spiritual diversity was…
Thoughts on Forgiveness
By
Gus diZerega
The forgiveness thread Cheryl started is a wonderful one, and I want to give it special placement. Forgiveness is a fascinating topic. I have a remarkable story that offers an inspiring perspective on that issue.
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