This blog will focus on using current events as a springboard to higher-level discussions about human animals and the human condition.

Serious media issues (including ownership issues) hover in the background of discussions of all important issues.

This is a place where a diverse group of writers use diverse disciplines to bridge the apparent walls that divide people, the groups they form and the environments they occupy.

Among well-educated and self-critical people, good ideas beat bad ideas whenever given the opportunity. — See John Stuart Mill