Don’t want to starve? It’s time for every single person to demand leadership and votes — Shipping makes the world get fed, but it’s falling apart There is a war in Europe disrupting grain distribution in Africa and India. Reading the Guardian yesterday, we learned that 90% of the world grain supply is controlled by four mega-corporations. They are in charge of manipulating supply based on demand, optimizing profits, keeping workers paid as little as possible…

As we pack our own crap into shipping containers to leave Kona we realize some scary stuff — Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog by Christyl Rivers Storms and shortages Reading the Guardian yesterday, we learned that 90% of the world grain supply is controlled by four mega-corporations. They are in charge of manipulating supply based on demand, optimizing profits, keeping workers paid as little as possible, and of course, relying on…

Leaving Hawaii and packing up thirty years of too, too much —

Consider the true cost of Amazon products and rocket-teering — Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog by Christyl Rivers Don’t order anything, just take a walk outdoors Don’t buy their stuff. When you do you enrich them more, and they will deliver it via a million carbon-monoxide pumping trucks on the roads that taxpayers fund (never billionaires) and you may never see a quiet, lovely suburb again. You will also find all your attention and time is…

A look at some considerations besides the most obvious ones — The murder question A woman’s right to choose is under attack. Many people, however, don’t believe any human being — even a woman whose body is required — has any right to “murder” another human being. This is just one of a bazillion views on abortion right now. Let’s look at some of…

“Is this just the flu? Because people die of the flu.” — Said this guy whose name I can’t recall about a malady that lingers Everybody poops, it’s true, or so they say Here’s the fearsome tale of when we fell ill one fall day T’was the year of 2016, it was in bleak November Teach grandchildren very well, so they shall well…

The war on women is not as well-publicized as the war on Christmas, maybe… — Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog by Christyl Rivers …Don’t know what you got till it’s gone Like a planet disintegrating before our very eyes, the war on women has crept in incrementally, steadily, inexorably. You may not be shocked, but if you are not very enraged, you are living in a bubble world about to burst. There are…

Science, reason, and even philosophy have largely abandoned Rand, but her most ardent followers have not abandoned her ideology. — Some of us cannot see it that way Many people still find value in Ayn Rand’s ideas about reason, thought, religion, and human society. Maybe they need to take a closer look? We are systems Rand considered our species “alone.” She was dead wrong on something so obvious that I think it is sometimes overlooked: Human beings are part of a…