The #Lextopia: E-mail to Chicago Mayor Lightfoot: Police Brutality, Hiring Security Firms, Funding Left Behind Neighborhoods

https://thelex-topia.blogspot.com/2020/08/e-mail-to-chicago-mayor-lightfoot.html

#Chicago #PoliceBrutality #moral #politics #SocialJustice #MoralPhilosophy #SocialPhilosophy

E-mail to Chicago Mayor Lightfoot: Police Brutality, Hiring Security Firms, Funding Left Behind Neighborhoods

Below is an e-mail that I have sent to Chicago Mayor Lightfoot. I get the feeling it breaks all the advice for writing your elected officia...

The #Lextopia: My Ballot Slate for the November 2020 Election at this Point in Time

https://t.co/6qdNXQcxqx

#2020Election #Chicago #CookCounty #Illinois

The #Lextopia: Feedback to a Specious and Speculative New York Times article, "Two Friends in Texas Were Tested for Coronavirus. One Bill Was $199. The Other? $6,408."

https://thelex-topia.blogspot.com/2020/07/feedback-to-specious-and-speculative.html

#COVID19 #coronavirus #journalism #media #politics, #publichealth

Feedback to a Specious and Speculative New York Times article, "Two Friends in Texas Were Tested for Coronavirus. One Bill Was $199. The Other? $6,408."

Feedback that I e-mailed to the New York Times about a bad example of journalism, especially in these contentious polarized times of COVID-...

The #Lextopia: I Want to Prevent Civil War, but I Might be Helping Save Humankind - My Charity Made Reality

https://thelex-topia.blogspot.com/2020/06/i-want-to-prevent-civil-war-but-i-might.html

I Want to Prevent Civil War, but I Might be Helping Save Humankind - My Charity Made Reality

So after a monotonous, dreary day and week at work (wearing a mask is for the best, but it still has a psychological deleterious effect), I ...

The #Lextopia: The First Issue isn't Crime Numbers or Costs; It's that Black Lives Matter

https://t.co/eR7tLZgI8a

The First Issue isn't Crime Numbers or Costs; It's that Black Lives Matter

I love that one of the first "factual" retorts to "defund the police" is "how will we deal with crime?" or "but crime will go up because the...

Life is Change: Putting Regular Posts on Hiatus

Because of time management, personal matters, and the Lextopia proving the least lucrative of all my after-hours activities, I'm putting reg...

The #Lextopia: Chicago Voters: Before and On 2/26/2019, Get Out There to Vote (and a couple final thoughts)

https://thelex-topia.blogspot.com/2019/02/chicago-voters-before-and-on-2262019.html

#ChicagoElection2019

Chicago Voters: Before and On 2/26/2019, Get Out There to Vote (and a couple final thoughts)

If you want to do some preliminary research, find your sample ballot at Chicago Board of Election Commissioners webpage . You know who I s...

The #Lextopia: Well to Do Neighborhoods Should Share Their School Fundraising with Not So Well-to-Do Schools

(How did I think I would FLASH POST this one?)

https://thelex-topia.blogspot.com/2019/02/well-to-do-neighborhoods-should-share.html

#Chicago, #EducationalFunding #Politics #SocialJustice #SocialPhilosophy

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Well to Do Neighborhoods Should Share Their School Fundraising with Not So Well-to-Do Schools

The other day I heard a pretty good interview of Robert Reich by DeRay Mckesson on the Pod Save the People podcast. Based on context, Re...

The #Lextopia: Have Differing Levels of National Pride & Shame Caused the Partisan Bubbles?

https://thelex-topia.blogspot.com/2018/12/have-differing-levels-of-national-pride.html

#CulturalCriticism #NationalPride #Politics

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Have Differing Levels of National Pride & Shame Caused the Partisan Bubbles?

During some weekend, I stayed up until 4 in the morning digging a deep Google. I wanted to know “What do the American people want” then move...