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from New York Times Newspaper in New York
Opinion: Our Culture of Contempt
People often say that our problem in America today is incivility or intolerance. This is incorrect. Motive attribution asymmetry leads to something far worse: contempt, which is a noxious brew of anger and disgust. And not just contempt for other people’s ideas, but also for other people. In the words of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, contempt is “the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.”
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from The Orca News & Media Website in B.C.
Daniel Marshall: B.C.’s permeable border
The historical exploration of transboundary regions, such as the Pacific Northwest (or dare I say, Canada’s Southwest!), have been largely undermined by preoccupations with nation-building history in two separate countries that has encouraged the blinding influence of a political divide. Cross-border migrations across the 49th parallel were nothing new for Indigenous peoples, fur traders, gold seekers or indeed my own grandfather who, during the late 1920s, drove from B.C. to Mexico on two separate occasions – once in a 1928 McLaughlin-Buick motorcar! B.C. was part of a natural North-South world – the Pacific Slope – where previously the Spanish, Russians, British, and Indigenous nations once moved quite freely west of the Rockies – until the United States and Canada commenced their new nation-building narratives to encompass their recently-claimed portions of the Pacific Coast.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Sue Lani Madsen: Born-Alive Act exposes Democrats’ vulnerability with young voters
For the generations coming of age prior to Roe v. Wade, pregnancy was mysterious and often hidden until a few months before delivery. Now, young women proudly post ultrasound pictures of their babies on social media at two months past conception. Baby’s first video may be online before baby makes an appearance in the delivery room. Which is why the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act has exposed the Democrats’ greatest political vulnerability with young voters. When pink- and blue-themed “reveal” parties announce the sex of the baby before he or she arrives, we can’t pretend we don’t know what’s coming. The context for the reproductive health debate is no longer 1973. This generation tracks a baby’s growth in the womb as casually as filling out a grade-school height chart. The Born-Alive Act was first offered for a simple unanimous consent vote in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb. Sen. Patty Murray blocked it, a political move she may regret as one of the leaders of the Senate Democratic caucus. When the Born-Alive Act came back for a roll call vote, all but three Senate Democrats went on record voting to kill the act, including Murray and Sen. Maria Cantwell. The bill required 60 votes to pass. It failed 53-44.
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Sue Lani Madsen: Born-Alive Act exposes Democrats’ vulnerability with young voters
For the generations coming of age prior to Roe v. Wade, pregnancy was mysterious and often hidden until a few months before delivery. Now, young women proudly post ultrasound pictures of their babies on social media at two months past conception. Baby’s first video may be online before baby makes an appearance in the delivery room. Which is why the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act has exposed the Democrats’ greatest political vulnerability with young voters. When pink- and blue-themed “reveal” parties announce the sex of the baby before he or she arrives, we can’t pretend we don’t know what’s coming. The context for the reproductive health debate is no longer 1973. This generation tracks a baby’s growth in the womb as casually as filling out a grade-school height chart. The Born-Alive Act was first offered for a simple unanimous consent vote in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb. Sen. Patty Murray blocked it, a political move she may regret as one of the leaders of the Senate Democratic caucus. When the Born-Alive Act came back for a roll call vote, all but three Senate Democrats went on record voting to kill the act, including Murray and Sen. Maria Cantwell. The bill required 60 votes to pass. It failed 53-44.
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