IT’S THE FOURTH OF JULY AGAIN…SO MERRY FIRECRACKERS TO US ALL… (…because we still can do so) It’s the Fourth of July again…so merry firecrackers to us all…because we still can do so. Well, kind of, because these days, depending

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BESET BY A GLOBAL FLOOD OF INSTABILITIES… (…they desperately seek refuge in our world’s few remaining arks of safety)                               This world seems to be heading into an era of mass upheavals and displacements of much of its populations. Beset

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DISUNITING THE KINGDOM OF THE BRITISH…                                                                                                                                                                                    (an unintended consequence of BREXIT) Besides severely rattling the bars of EU’s cage, BREXIT, may have also lit the fuse for disuniting the kingdom of the British, as an unintended consequence of that decision.

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HOW THE INFECTIOUS DYSENTERY OF POPULISM CAN SPREAD… (…whenever discontent with a non-responsive status quo abounds…) The English have let a populist mood stampede them right out of the European Union’s collective, into an ocean of economic and other uncertainties

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THE BRITISH ARE LEAVING!…THE BRITISH ARE LEAVING? (…well kinda…maybe…maybe not…) Everyone is on tenterhooks about the upcoming referendum in England to decide whether they should quit or stay as a member of the European Union. It’s hard to say which

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THE REAL FOUNTAINHEADS OF BIGOTRY AND HATE… (…come from all those false prophets who dishonor whatever faith they claim to follow…) The recent mindless slaughter and mayhem at a popular Orlando night club, which catered to a mostly gay patronage

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IT’S TIME TO RETHINK WHO WE THINK WE ARE… (…and what we need to do to continue being…America) Looking around at the dismal condition of our political scene today, the less than coherent performance of our economic machinery, and the

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HOKULE’A…A RE-AWAKENING OF POLYNESIAN VOYAGING… (…from all those long and multiple threads of cultural history) Cultural history, much like our strands of DNA, seems to be a continuum of evolutionary adaptation and mutation, as each succeeding generation encounters changes in

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UNCERTAINTIES ABOUT OUR WEATHERVANE TAX POLICIES… (are what keeps the RPM level of our economic machinery barely turning above…idle) Aside from all the usual campaign blather and noise being made in an election year like this one, the most striking

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REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE END OF THE COLD WAR…WITH TODAY… (…the Reagan-Gorbachev era of…glasnost) Browsing through some of our old Centurion archives we came across one of our cartoons from those times back in 1987, which brought us some reflections comparing

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