by Barry Phegan | Mar 14, 2023 | Living Life, Social comment
Washington’s tiresome budget battles deflect our attention from the licensed pickpockets that steal trillions every year. I’m talking about the financial services industry and internet and cell phone providers that skim us daily. We are so used to...
by Barry Phegan | Feb 8, 2023 | Social comment
Corporations use our biological need to feel part of our group to sell us an endless stream of new clothes. By buying, then dumping these passing fashions, we personally contribute to the growing climate catastrophe. There’s been a big change in my...
by Barry Phegan | Jan 19, 2023 | Living Life, Social comment
Bummed out by relentless rains? Friends lost their homes to forest fires? Feeling sorry for those retreating glaciers, melting ice caps, and starving polar bears? Stuck at the airport with flight cancellations? Your basement’s leaking, and that’s never...
by Barry Phegan | Dec 29, 2022 | Aging, Social comment
Global climate change brought me some personal and unexpected consequences that told me I have a new future. Back in 2006 when I saw Al Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth” it seemed that climate change (known in those days as ‘global warming’) was...
by Barry Phegan | Dec 7, 2022 | Social comment
Since 1776 we have spent untold time, energy, and legal fees defending and expanding independence, freedom, and human rights, but almost none defending and expanding human responsibilities. It’s time to change that. The Supreme Court holds lengthy...
by Barry Phegan | Oct 31, 2022 | Living Life, Social comment
My recent Australian visit had me reflecting on our North American norms and how we staunchly defend, like every nation, our unique, though perfectly arbitrary ways and assumptions. While Australia is clearly part of our current international...
