Bob Schwartz

The post below is from six years ago.

Follow this through, because there is a (surprise?)

The 20th century gave us two world wars and an atomic bomb, but the most interesting of the Big Events of the century may be the Russian Revolution.

Trump/Russia (2018) Ten years ago everybody knew that Trump had a special relationship with Putin and Russia.

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“History has shown that a world operating without the rule of law is unjust, unwise and inhumane.”

Alfred Nobel believes dynamite will bring world peace.

Reviewing previous posts, it is not surprising that many from 2019 on are about the pandemic.

In case you missed the previous post about the music of Hiroshi Yoshimura, following is another track from another of his albums, Surround (1986).

America has gone wrong before.

The world’s richest man and the world’s most powerful man may both be crazy.

“Musk has the sobering effect of a corruption exposé and the fear factor of a ’70s conspiracy thriller.”

Some people think that Trump’s embrace of uncontrolled AI is about all the money he can make from it.

Real Life Comics, December 1941, The Story of Tyranny Dad: BRAINS alone won’t preserve freedom, Billy!

South Carolina execution by firing squad (2025) The story of prisoner Crista Pike in Tennessee, left in a coma by a failed lethal injection, has raised the issue of capital punishment, again.

As I look back at previous posts, I’m not sure how to describe my reaction to seeing how relevant some of them remain.

Reviewing this post from 2019, I thought that I hadn’t seen many if any nuns or any other religious arrested for protesting at the U.S.

Religious traditions tend to grow into specialness or spectacle.

Do I contradict myself?

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

The post below is from 2019.

This post is from April 2019.

Trump is promoting the policy that AI companies are capable of self-regulation and that they don’t need any broader guardrails or oversight from outside.

“Put even more simply, the German Parliament would be requested to turn over its constitutional functions to Hitler and take a long vacation.”

You might think that a video from 2018 couldn’t possibly “get” what is happening right now and could turn it into a brilliant and still-relevant creation.

Émile Coué Émile Coué (1857 – 1926) was a French psychologist, pharmacist, and hypnotist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion.

You can’t fight and eliminate myth.

Zen Master Dogen (1200-1253) and Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) would have understood each other, liked each other, despite the seven centuries that separate them.

Refining Gold Gold refining is one of the most common metaphors in Buddhist teaching.

Time is a great teacher.

Macklemore announces Free Palestine tour to benefit humanitarian aid organisations Macklemore has announced a “Free Palestine” tour, a series of live shows that will feature the US rapper performing alongside musicians and friends to raise funds for human…

I am not, it goes without saying but saying anyway, a prophet.

The Lotus Sutra—aka The King of Sutras, The Lotus Blossom of the Wonderful Dharma, The Discourse on the White Lotus of the True Doctrine—is one of the best-known and best-loved discourses attributed to the Buddha.

It would be hard to name a band more willfully strange that managed to score two Top 20 hits in the 1980s than Was (Not Was).

It seems that the official start of each season used to be a bigger deal.

“Compassion does not enter into anything without beautifying it, and is not removed from anything without making it ugly.”

It is obvious to point to Leonard Cohen’s Who By Fire for Yom Kippur, as it is his take on the liturgical poem Unetanah Tokef, recited during the holiday services.

No sin is so light that it may be overlooked; no sin is so heavy that it may not be repented.

The days from Rosh Hashanah (“Head of the Year”, the New Year) and Yom Kippur (“Day of Atonement”) are the ten holiest on the Jewish calendar.

Emma Goldman’s dislike of religion is evidenced by her participation in events such as this [Yom Kippur Picnic], scheduled on Jewish holy days.

Twenty months into his second term, Mr.

In the realm of spirit, there is no difference between a second and a century, between an hour and an age.

It is one of the most famous and dramatic scenes in the Hebrew Bible.

“Everyone has a light burning for him in the world above, and everyone’s light is unique.

Senator John Kennedy questioned FBI Director Kash Patel about new FBI hiring policies.

Hind Rajab, age six, graduating from kindergarten in Gaza, shortly before she was killed.

“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!)

Arsonists don’t have to be smart or brave.

From The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season by Marcia Falk: Nothing.

May I be a guard for those who are protectorless, A guide for those who journey on the road.