Fairness First

If we are to address the existential problems that face us as a species we must unite and act globally. Society will never be united under religion, regardless of what Wyatt/Regina's church leadership thinks. If we want to unite humanity we have to start it from a bedrock foundation that every rational person can agree comes before any of their religion's dictates: To have the healthiest and happiest earth possible, our highest priority has to be maximizing the happiness for all in an equal and fair way. Our sense of morality doesn't come from any religion, it comes from others violating our bodily autonomy against our will. We learn at a very young age that its wrong to hurt someone who isn't hurting you. That's the foundation of human morality, not the grotesque infinite injustice that is the "moral" foundation of Christianity and Islam.

Male testicle size is often indicative of whether males and females of a specie are monogamous or promiscuous.  In male animals with typically small testicles matings tend to be monogamous.  In animals with very large testicles couples tend to be more promiscuous.  Male human testicles are in the medium size range which is a biological indicator that human male and female couples tend to be somewhere in the middle between monogamous and promiscuous.  Human couples aren't evolved for exclusive monogamous relationships. Some months ago, a  JMG reader  asked me if I had any ideas about some  shocking behavior between gay and straight men he'd witnessed in the 1950's.  Apparently a gang of heterosexual men would seek out a group of gay men.  The heterosexual men would force the gay men to perform fellatio on them in an alley-way and during the...orgy(?) the heterosexual men would be punching and kicking the men performing fellatio on them telling them things like "You wo

Some liberals and conservatives think Trump won in 2016 because Hillary was a flawed candidate, or she didn't run a good campaign.  There's no truth to that.   Hillary could not have run a signficantly better 2016 Campaign and she was an infinitely more moral and better qualified than Trump to be president.   Here's why Trump was elected - bias, corruption, lawbreaking: 1) a massive and systematic and unprecedented effort by the Russian government to seed discord, discredit Hillary and promote Trump 2) Wide scale voter suppression by Republican governors - photo voter ID laws, gerrymandering, closing of polls in districts that vote Democratic while opening more in districts that vote Republican, cutting the number of days and operating hours for voting, cutting Sunday voting which is a heavy voting day for the black community, not allowing out of state student voters to vote, purging voter rolls to lower voter turnout which historically favours Republicans, billboards p

For generations adults have teased young children about having opposite sex romantic relationships. I think I was between 3 and 5 when one day my family of 10 started teasing me about having a girlfriend.  I felt assaulted, humiliated and overwhelmed.  I recall running into the kitchen and grabbing a yard stick and bringing it into the living room waving it around and thinking I wanted to hit anyone  making fun of me.   I resolved at that moment  I would never be attracted to girls or have a girlfriend.  For the next several years I frequently expressed my distaste for girls and  insisted I would never be atttracted to them.  I tried to foster anger towards girls and make myself hate them.  In my late teens I tried to do the same thing with men when I found I was attracted to them. Well,  I did end up being attracted  to girls despite my best efforts.  In the meantime I resisted and rebuffed any attraction girls displayed to me and told them firmly , "I don't like girls&q

The Fermi Paradox: Why with hundreds of billions of planets that are in the habitable zone around the stars in the milky way, why after decades of searching have we found no technologically produced radio waves from outside our solar system, no sign of technological life beyond our own? Because, as we see in nature, a lot of repetition exists, a large number of species have penises and vaginas. So it is with the development of life and technological civilization elsewhere in the universe, it evolves similarly to our own. Technological civilizations elsewhere in the universe are going to discover similar technologies to us, like burning fossil fuels on a massive, planetary disrupting scale, or nuclear weapons. We see no sign of technological life elsewhere in the universe because the universe is 20 billion years old and really advanced technological civilizations like ours only exist for hundreds of years, maybe a few thousand years. They're gone in a blink compared to the 20

Some background is necessary for full understanding of what went on between my brother Murray and me.  He had been  an occasional visitor to my acreage and sometimes brought me food or candy.  One time he gave me his used Aerostar van which despite its age was a very good vehicle for me.  He was also a bigot which I really hated.  He constantly condemned indigenous people and was wilfully irrational about justifying his  bigotry. He would, for example, tell me about how horrible Canadian Indians were because "lol, the losers are asking for compensation because they were WWII veterans!".  I explained to him, it was not that they were asking for something other veterans had not gotten, it was a disgraceful action of unfairness by the Canadian government.  At the outbreak of WWII, many native Canadians offered to fight.  The government told them, "If you want to join the Canadian army, you have to renounce all your rights as a Native Canadian."  This was ironically