Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayerbillfrayer@gmail.com Are We Headed for a Technological Dystopia? We have often envisioned a time when we would have to endure a world taken over by technology. Such has been the theme of much science-fiction literature and films. Fritz Lang’s Metropolis envisioned a holocaust-like underworld where workers were subservient to
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Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayerbillfrayer@gmail.com In God We Trust? President Barack Obama was heavily criticized by conservatives earlier this year when he made a rather obvious observation at the National Prayer Breakfast. In light of the heinous violence perpetrated by Islamic Jihadists, he had the audacity to point out that Christians have also
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Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayerbillfrayer@gmail.com Je Suis Charlie? Not So Much The demonstrations throughout the world in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris are understandable. The crowds chanted “Je suis Charlie!” or “I am Charlie,” in tribute to the cartoon journalists from the humor magazine Charlie Hebdo who were killed in
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Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayerbillfrayer@gmail.com Girls Are Leaving Boys Behind It no longer seems incomprehensible that the United States will elect a woman as President. Of course, the US is far behind in this respect. Women have already served as heads of state in Sri Lanka, India, Israel, Argentina, the Central African Republic, The
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Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayer billfrayer@gmail.com Gut Check for Progressives The US midterm elections did not turn out well for progressive activists. I could make excuses for the Democratic Party’s poor showing. As the media has pointed out, the people who vote in the election are mostly older white people, unlike the coalitions
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