Quarantine Essay #46 by Ric Hudgens, June 13, 2020 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/philip-rhoads/message

Quarantine Essay #45 by Ric Hudgens, June 12, 2020 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/philip-rhoads/message

Quarantine Essay #43 by Ric Hudgens, June 9, 2020. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/philip-rhoads/message

A spectator shouts at Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, "Do something," at a vigil in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019 (Photo: Albert Cesare) With two mass shootings in less than 24 hours — Saturday morning in El Paso, TX, and early Sunday morning in Dayton — have we reached a tipping point? Is the NRA still strong enough, can the mantra of "good guys wi…

Climate Change, to me, is the most IMPORTANT of all our issues. Greta Thunberg's interview today on WBUR’s “Here and Now,” along with an important article in The Guardian, 25th of July, 2019, have inspired me to finally get around to thinking more in depth on this. Let's be in conversation via email: pip4311@gmail.com. --- Send in a voice message: …

Let’s talk about Impeachment, and consider if this still a Distraction, as Nancy Pelosi and moderate Democrats might argue, or is it Important — so important and so urgent that risking losing marginal Democratic seats in 2020, such as the Kansas-3rd District, where I live, or even, worst case, losing to Trump for a second term — the principle of Ch…

December 22, 2018, through January 25, 2019 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/philip-rhoads/message

"Prayer for the Children" --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/philip-rhoads/message

Introducing the concepts of "Important" and "Distractions." Distractions: shut down\ wall\ impeachment\ democracy\ authoritarianism\ gun control\ STEM/STEAM. Important: climate change\ income inequality\ humanities/liberal arts\ empathy: pro-social not anti-social policies\ mental health\ nuclear weapons/nuclear energy/nuclear waste\ community buil…