Why panic is unnecessary BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share Inflation is on everyone’s mind these days. Currently running at 6.2 percent (4.6 percent if you strip out food and energy), inflation is at its highest rate in many decades—since 1990 to be precise. And, […]
Rinaldo S. Brutoco appears on “Talking Success with Aasmah Mir”
Tackling the climate crisis and changing the world Our Founder and President, Rinaldo S. Brutoco, recently sat down for a chat with Aasmah Mir on the podcast “Talking Success.” Aasmah talks to Rinaldo about the thread that links his varied career and how his passion for reversing the effects of climate change is being realised […]
Perspectives: Guns, Gosar, Violence and Economics
War only enriches gunsmiths BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse has galvanized the country, splitting already “warring factions,” into something far more dramatic. The travesty of that trial began with the systematic exclusion of Black jurors and was further amplified by a clearly […]
Perspectives: Secession Revisited
Peace is always cheaper than war BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share Robert Muller, the recently deceased Santa Barbara resident and globally known United Nations official who many of us admired, famously observed: “Use every letter you write, Every conversation you have, Every meeting you attend, To […]
The Giving List 2022
We made it! We are thrilled to announce our inclusion in The Giving List, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara is home to a number of nonprofits. The Giving List team consulted with leaders across philanthropy, financial services, and philanthropic advising to determine which organizations should be highlighted – and we are delighted to have made the […]
Perspectives: “Conscious Uncoupling”
Loving separation vs. violent divorce BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share Gwyneth Paltrow famously described her attempts to end a long-term marriage without acrimony as a “conscious uncoupling”, which she explained is a way that a couple can consciously choose to disengage with each other and go their […]
Perspectives: Marjorie Taylor Greene–Leaving???
Irreconcilable differences? BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia is one of the wackier folks ever elected to the House of Representatives. Don’t take my word for it: Republican arch-conservative Congresswoman Liz Cheney has said that Greene’s thoughts and words […]
Perspectives: Charles Blow is Right!
Today’s “Paul Revere Moment” BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share Many of you are probably familiar with one or more editorials crafted by New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow. While not as uniformly progressive as some would like, and never a doctrinaire conservative, […]
Perspectives: The Real “Right to Life”
Manchin’s fear of an “Entitlement Society” BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share Roe v. Wade appears to be on its last legs. The current, radical, Supreme Court sits poised to riddle Roe with Texas-sized exceptions or to overturn it all together. Ever since Roe was handed down on […]
Special Edition of Perspectives: Psychedelics and Mystical Experience
A catalyst for healing in contemporary psychedelic research BY JERRY B. BROWN Click here to share It is well-established that mystical experiences have historically played a […]
Perspectives: Western Rivers, the Salton Sea & Us
Bill Maher is right on this one BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share Last week’s column (September 30) dealt with Santa Barbara’s worsening water shortage issues – August was the […]
Perspectives: Water, Water… and Not a Drop to Drink
Santa Barbara’s Solution BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here to share You may recall the 18th-century poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It is an incredible story of one man’s abuse […]