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Seems every wire and airwave in the country is filled with people passing judgment on other people.   You can lead people to Sunday School, but you can’t make it sink in…. You young people out there may be puzzled why oldsters pass opinions early and often on any subject that comes up.  I know I [...]

Following up on Logic… Not only is elementary propaganda as effective as ever on our population, we’re backsliding on our collective ability to weigh the relative merits of information.  Gossip, like other pathogens, thrives on human populations.  We all remember from elementary school how messages get twisted in a round of Gossip, the game; we’d [...]

A Bill Moyers Journal program on compassion coincided with random thoughts of my own.  I was wondering why I don’t see more evidence of us practicing the most basic of Sunday School lessons. Leaving aside the Golden Rule, in our “outta my way, I’m getting mine” weekday lives we seem to be ever quicker at [...]

People with damage to the prefrontal cortex cannot understand sarcasm. Aha!  50% of the people I’ve ever talked to have brain damage!  They’re “humor-blind”! Evidence seems overwhelming that there are different basic brain types.  Many of us live in a world of black and white and two dimensions.  Others see multiple dimensions, multiple shades of [...]

I guess I get confused easily.  One of many ways is when a good thing is made a pejorative–especially in an age when so many claim theology and ethics are their primary concern. It’s too late for “affirmative action.”  The term has been drug through the mud, rode hard, and put away wet so long [...]

This is my personal blog, in which my private rants and raves are potentially public. I have no illusions that more than a handful of people will see them, but I figured I might as well join the party. More than ever, any inference that the emperor has no clothes seems to incite the wrath [...]