Happy Jewish New Year – לשנה טובה
2018-9-10 (5779-1-1) – Happy Jewish New Year (and to my friends who think I’m waging war on Christmas, Merry Christmas). I wish you the best for the coming year and […]
Tag Archives: Culture
So Louis CK Is Funny. Other (Non-Creepy) People Are Funny, Too.
2018-08-30 – I was a fan of Louis CK. I was a fan of Woody Allen. It was a loss to learn of their abusiveness. It’s a loss when your […]
Influence Just One Person!
2018-08-16 – I saw a Facebook post today urging me to vote. That is fine, as far as it goes, but it won’t really change my behavior. I have voted […]
Are Our Fears Driving Politics?—Or Is Politics Driving Our Fears?
2018-07-12 – What are your greatest fears? What causes you worry? What stresses you out? That was the question posed in this week’s weight-loss webinar sponsored by my health plan. […]
Political Anger Does Not “Purge” Injustice—It “Rehearses” Injustice
2018-07-05 – One thing that extremists from both the right and left agree on is the view that anger is essential. That the expression of that anger leads to catharsis. That […]
GOP Wants to Keep Abortions as a Perk for the Rich
2018-07-02 – I am not a fan of abortions. To me they represent a sub-optimal solution to a dreadful problem. This does not mean that I would ban them. But […]
An Evening of Theater at the Juvenile Detention Center
2018-06-18 – Friday evening, Kit and I dropped by the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center at Hamilton and Roosevelt Road to catch a preview performance by the Temporary LockDown Ensemble […]
The “Reality” of Unauthorized Immigration
2018-06-14 – For all the political hoo-hah about unauthorized immigration, the numbers make me question how much of a problem it is at all. I think it is more of […]
LGBTQUIA+ . . . ROYGBIV
2018-06-11 – Roy G. Biv is a mnemonic for the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Not all languages have words for these exact colors. […]
Trolling the Trolls – Why Liberals Should Stop Hating the Right
2018-06-07 – I kinda got into it with a liberal Facebook group the other day. They posted a graph purporting to show that white Evangelical Christians have no redeeming qualities. […]
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