Home Values
2013-05-29 – I saw a story yesterday about how home values are now up. First they were up. Then they were down. Now they are up again. In all that […]
Tag Archives: Politics
Evil Inclination (Yetzer Ha-ra)
2013-05-24 – Sorry I’m late posting this. I was enticed by the devil to relax when I came home from work last night. Not! I had a couple of discussions […]
Racial Profiling
2013-05-20 – IRS screening of Tea Party applications for tax exemption was a kind of racial profiling. We don’t normally think of racial profiling in this way. We think about […]
Sacred Economics
2013-05-20 – I just read a book called Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein. It was recommended to me by my friend […]
Shot While Trying to Escape
2013-05-17 – In 1987, I wrote a one-act play called “Shot While Trying to Escape.” The title was based on a standard excuse that the Nazi Gestapo used to explain […]
Trophies for Just Showing Up
2013-05-15 – You see it everywhere: people decrying a culture that gives trophies for just showing up. It’s socialist, they say, not to demand excellence, to reward behavior that anyone […]
Listen, Asshole!
2013-05-08 – I spent nearly 10 years as a volunteer community mediator. These were “minor” neighborhood disputes that had gotten out of hand. Many came to us because one of […]
Instant Satisfaction Industrial Complex
2013-05-06 – WTF? Did you read about the high school soccer goalie that punched a referee who gave him a yellow card? The ref died. And the goalie’s life, […]
A Murder of Crows
2013-04-29 – Thomas Hobbes had a dim view of nature, seeing life in nature as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” The amazing thing about people who pontificate about nature is that […]
Terrorists from Madman-istan
2013-04-19 – Okay! So the Boston Marathon bombers were from Chechnya. And they apparently were Muslims. So we can now feel safe in assuming their motive was somehow related to […]
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