Are humans too arrogant, too ignorant … too myopic to regard the big picture, to see the forest for the trees? In the past couple of weeks, a series of wasted opportunities suggest yes; and expose a hazardous future outlook…
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By Stuart Greenbaum Woefully antiquated and ambiguously drafted, both the Bible and U.S. Constitution would benefit greatly from some editorial revisions. Since this'll never happen, the next best, maybe even better thing is to improve upon the transcendent rule, the…
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By Stuart Greenbaum Ranked up there with "amazing" and "extraordinary" and "everyone," the adjective "magical" is among the most misused and overused of hyperbolic descriptors. Very rarely is something as suggested not only baffling in the entertaining sense, but profoundly…
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Spend enough time with someone with a broken brain and you might actually learn something. Think of it as addition by subtraction. For example, I’ve learned to appreciate that for individuals living with dementia and severe memory loss the mantra…
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Humankind should be more in awe of the universe thanks to the new deep-field images provided by the James Webb Space Telescope. Not because the images allow us to travel back in time 13 billion years. Not even because these…
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A Short One-Act Play By Stuart Greenbaum SCENE ONE It’s wintertime 1950 in New York City’s Lower East Side. Seated opposite one another at a table inside popular KATZ’S DELICATESSEN, history’s two most influential “propagandists” are engaged in an animated…
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A short story by Stuart Greenbaum No one can know absolutely how they will think or act as they age into their future. Of course our younger selves are arrogant enough to think we do. But really no matter our…
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MAKE BELIEVE NEWS: SACRAMENTO, CA, USA -- Public interest in farthest outer space is growing exponentially across the globe. The astounding 98 percent increase is being attributed to the billions and billions of individuals who have read the new bestselling…
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The brilliant polemicist Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011), author of multiple bestsellers including god is not Great, is known for his uniquely erudite and witty writing and oratory. The audacity with which he made and debated his points did not suffer fools…
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“That’s a nice photo of me,” said no toddler ever. Though this does beg the question: What exactly does a one- or two-year-old think when they see themselves in a photograph or video or mirror, for that matter? No one…
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