Category: Ethics
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Save Our VA Protest – Tucson – 12/19/25
There were only 3 of us at the Ajo gate, but around 30 at the 6th Ave entrance for this mornings shift change. The 6th Ave gate was covered from around 7:30 AM on. We covered the Ajo gate from 6:30-8:30 AM. Responses today were similar to last week, from 70-80% responding and no negatives…
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White Bird
White Birdby It’s A Beautiful Day [Verse 1]White bird in a golden cageOn a winter’s day, in the rainWhite bird in a golden cageAlone [Verse 2]The leaves blow ‘cross the long, black roadTo the darkened sky in its rageBut the white bird just sits in her cageUnknown[Chorus]White bird must fly, she will die [Instrumental Break]…
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Which Of The Multitude?
Describe a man who has positively impacted your life. There have been so many, and let’s not forget the other half (more or less) of the population… And ‘positive’ is a matter of opinion. During my formative years, it was my dad. He was the one there and in control. So, I had no choice…
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Our Social Pyramid
Our Social Pyramid jack of many thingsmaster of nothingnot even myself somewhere in the middlethe distributionnaturally skewed just one of the massesin the pyramid’s basepropping up the elites in their imagined graceentitlement and hubristheir defining face gorging on the fruits ofour labor and sufferingat the hands of their lickspittle sycophantsand cynical thugswith NDA’s and guns…
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New Skills – No; Lessons, Well…
What skills or lessons have you learned recently? To paraphrase an old song: You can’t always get what you ask for, but sometimes you get what you need…; -) I’ve heard that there are no accidents or coincidences in life, only lessons. The problem I have with that is that it’s just another story (fiction)…
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Freedom
Freedom Fight for freedom – you sayWhat freedom – I sayPolitical, social, religiousIntellectual, sexual – you say Or freedom fromLaw – civil, physical, spiritualFrom intellect, emotion, sensationDeath – say you There is no freedom – say IOnly exchange ofOne tyranny for another Political – tax collectors and tyrantsSocial – cliques and classesReligeious – saviors and…
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Return Of The Snow
This is another one I wrote several years ago, but seems appropriate in the season for reasons untold…; -) Return of the Snow snow is comingin flurries and squallsin storms and gently fallingclouds of snow-dust swirls, where each flake, an ice crystal,glimmers in moonshine,and under street lights,headlights, and lighted windows, casting long shadows,creates snowscapes —…
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Too Many Times To Count
Have you ever performed on stage or given a speech? Yes, and while I enjoyed the performing (locally, off and on for about 15 years), I ended up hating the ‘business’ aspects of performing (managers, bookings, marketing) and the whole ‘music scene’ of those times. I’ve also read some of my verses at different poetry…
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Save Our VA Protest – 12/12/25
There were only 3 of us out this morning at the Tucson VA’s Ajo gate for the shift change. We arrived at 6:30 AM and left at 8:30. It was pretty chilly, both temperature and responses, at least at first. But responses picked up pretty quickly to about the same as last week’s. And only…
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We Don’t Need Another Hero
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)by Tina Turner Out of the ruinsOut from the wreckageCan’t make the same mistake this timeWe are the childrenThe last generationWe are the ones they left behind And I wonder when we are ever gonna changeLiving under the fear ’til nothing else remains We don’t need another heroWe don’t need…
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