Poet, Activist, Humanist
Doann Houghton-Alico 
Interestingly, the GOP for years has preached the line to their rank and file that you can’t trust the mainstream media. Now that the mainstream media is telling the facts about their leading candidate and his incredible collection of lies and misinformation that keeps getting repeated, many Republicans don’t choose to believe the truth. Every … Read more
The Peace Park in Hiroshima had not been high on my list, but after being here, I would encourage anyone who has not been to go. The Peace Museum is a balanced look at what happened on August 6, 1945 (3 days after I turned five) and a poignant cry for banishment of nuclear weapons … Read more
I am taking a break from my history and amateur anthropological and sociological research about the whys of today to remember a not-too-long-ago trip to Asia with my grandson, Ethan, who turns 20 today. But this post is still relevant given Mark Twain’s comment: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of … Read more
23 March 1919, not quite 100 years ago today, Benito Mussolini founded the Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF (Fascist party) in Italy. He took the name, for us, fascism, from the fighting bands of 19th century Italian peasants, Fasci di Combattimento (fascis originally from Latin, and according to my Latin dictionary meaning bundle, burden, or, specifically, … Read more
My country is in shock. Many of us even experience some of the physiological effects: dizziness, confusion, nausea. But our shock is the number of xenophobic, racist, ignorant people that have crawled out of the woodwork to support a super-narcissistic member of their own. Mother and child in Vanuatu. I am truly shocked at the … Read more