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Unfamiliar Ground: Bracing for Climate Impacts in the American Midwest
By Steve OttoFor the last five or six years, we have never had more than 6 inches of snow. It was not always like that. When I move to Wichita, KS, when I was 13 years old, we often had more than a...
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Whew! Another Super Bowl LV
By Steve OttoIt was Super Bowl Sunday again. That happens every year. There is little to nothing political about football. But Super Bowl has been turned into a tradition and its own holiday. It is a...
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Do we jump on the anti-Trump bandwagon?
By Steve Otto As I watch the impeachment trial, over former president Donald Trump’s spectacle in Congress, back on January 6, a few things go through my mind. A lot of liberal Democrats are chomping...
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Epic Battles in Practical Ethics: Stoicism vs Epicureanism--And yes...I have...
By Steve OttoWhen I started college, at Newman University, in Wichita, had to take a course on ancient civilization. That might seem interesting but it was the ancient philosophers who had all the...
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A record decrease in human population—the Coronavirus—Biden's main redeeming...
By Steve Otto The Coronavirus has now reach an epic 500,000 people dead. It is hard to wrap ones head against such a statistic. All of the major news outlets have posted what I am posting now. So I...
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Biden Agenda Faces test as relief bill heads to Senate
By Steve OttoWhile reading my Sunday newspaper (The Wichita Eagle)[1] I came across this article: " Biden Agenda Faces test as relief bill heads to Senate."Here is what the article said:"President...
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Today is International Women's Day—women on our money
By Steven OttoToday is International Women's Day and for a theme, this year, I have decided to write about our nations lack of women and other minorities on our currency. To date there have been a few...
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Woman Power - Yoko Ono This Year's Girl- Elvis Costello
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Harry, Meghan and Oprah—When will those worshipers of the remnants of...
By Steve OttoWe are now into the 21st century and there are still many people both here in the US and in the United Kingdom (Mostly Britain and some related countries) who are still going gaga over...
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Finally we all get a stimulus check
By Steve OttoWe can finnally expect a stimulus check in the mail. I have heard from family members who really hate President Joe Biden, yet have supported the passing of the stimulus check. They are...
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On St. Patrick's Day— let's listen to Black 47 - James Connolly and Dropkick...
St. Patrick's Day is a day for getting drunk on Green beer, for many people. But it doesn't have to be. It is also a time to reflect on the struggles of Irelandin the past and in Northern Ireland in...
View ArticleRemoving all references to the confederacy in the south may be unrealistic
But the names of some personalities obviously need to go—such as Nathan B. ForrestBy Steve Otto Some arguments just don't die easy. One of those is the fact that many things in the South are named...
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Another Spring Break—with an outbreak of the Covid virus
By Steve OttoLeave it to the people of Florida to do things wrong. Every year kids from across the country come down to Miami Beach for fun and sun. The fun includes everything from heaving drinking...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Fatal Health Inequities
When: Tune in April 18, 7pm Central Standard Time.Where: Global Learning Center of Wichita.Who will be there?!: Meredeth Turshen -She is a professor emerita at the E. J. Bloustein School of planning...
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April Fools! And the joke is on them and their party!
By Steve OttoToday is April 1. There was a time when I used to try and come up with elaborate jokes to celebrate this day; "April Fools Day." Over the years I just don't seem to come up with great...
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The debate over choosing how we treat our own bodies continues with "People...
By Steve OttoOnce again I am writing about those who reject the one size fits all approach of the 12 step programs and other outfits that simply refuse to recognize the short comings of some programs...
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Facebook sets up a new censorship board—so that corporate America can...
By Steve OttoI'm watching TV and suddenly a news story comes on about the new "oversight board" board that Facebook has just put together. What it really is: a censorship board to decide what content...
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Vigil was held here in Wichita Kansas for victims of police brutality
By Steve OttoA few dozen people met at RiversidePark yesterday for a vigil to honor those who have died from police killings. The crowd was mostly young people under 50, yet there were a few older...
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