Category: American Life

  • Weaning off of Facebook

    Weaning off of Facebook

    There were multiple occasions, when it was clear to me that Facebook’s success is in part due to making profit of the propagated hate on its network. Facebook’s leadership could play naive in 2017, when it came out that their network was partly taking over by bots, trying to divide the country, target groups with…

  • All of the sons of Adam

    All of the sons of Adam

    All of the sons of Adam are part of one single body, They are of the same essence. When time afflicts us with pain In one part of that body All the other parts feel it too. If you fail to feel the pain of others You do not deserve the name of man. Saadi…

  • Doesn’t want anyone to catch anything

    Doesn’t want anyone to catch anything

    … The Major League Baseball reopened with the Washington Nationals playing the New York Yankees on their home field. Before the game, every player and every coach in the playing area held up a black banner that stretched along the first base and third baselines, then took a knee on the grass in silence, in…

  • Mounting Documentation of Systemic Racial Bias of US Judicial System

    Mounting Documentation of Systemic Racial Bias of US Judicial System

    Bill Gates wrote on his post 5 Books for a lousy year: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander. Like many white people, I’ve tried to deepen my understanding of systemic racism in recent months. Alexander’s book offers an eye-opening look into how the criminal justice system unfairly targets…

  • How to mourn one-hundred-thousand deaths

    How to mourn one-hundred-thousand deaths

    The COVID-19 has cost so many more lives in the United States, than 9/11, and Vietnam War together. The New York Times published the names of 1,000 people who died of the coronavirus on the front page of its paper edition. They not only list the names, ages and location, they also added a few…