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July 12, 2023

Guns Do Not Protect Your Family *First published by John McCleary in 1969

Guns Do Not Protect Your Family! Stop using that as an excuse for owning firearms.

The facts prove that you are actually putting your family at risk by owning a gun. Numbers show that, for every one criminal who is subdued by a household gun, there are literally hundreds of family members...

July 01, 2023

First Published by John McCleary in 2017* Planned Obsolescence: The Corporate Joke On The American Public

In primal and tribal societies people worked only to feed, clothe, house and protect themselves. Then they created art and played with family and friends the rest of the time. They had active social and family lives because they worked only for the essentials. Today we work and slave for a lot of...

June 27, 2023

My thought: If I could rewrite history I would tell the painful truth.

If I could rewrite history I would tell the painful truth, and then maybe the future population of the world could be appalled at our mistakes and then start to live happily ever after. ­­

How does an aging hippie change a light bulb? Levitation...