On a Mission from Gawd
2014-09-04 – Did you ever notice that folks who are on a mission from Gawd seldom accomplish what they set out to do? Oh, I’m not saying that they don’t […]
Tag Archives: psychology
Today You Are a Man
2014-08-24 – Fifty years ago this week I became a bar mitzvah. I stood before my community, led the prayers, read from the scroll of the Torah, and spoke to […]
Finding Pictures in the Clouds
2014-08-19 – You can see pictures in the clouds. It might be a face. It might be a horsey. It’s a fun game to play. Of course, there are no […]
Unexpressed Mirth—A Ticking Time Bomb? Or Forgotten?
2014-08-05 – Back in the Sixties, it was common knowledge that unexpressed anger would fester and come out in unexpected ways. Like an overheated boiler, you would blow off steam. […]
Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life
2014-07-29 – Saturday I was a life insurance agent. For a day. Yesterday I ended it. I’m not sure why I wanted to embark on a detour from my chosen […]
Innocent But Dead
2014-07-22 – I get angry at my fellow liberal Jews who are unwilling to give Israel the slack to defend itself from attack. A military defense is not going to […]
The Bright Light of Punishment
2014-07-13 – Human beings have a need to exact punishment. A variety of psychology experiments have shown this to be true. MRIs reveal how brightly our brains light up when […]
Who Wants to Grow Market Share?
2014-06-29 – If you ask a bunch of kids “who wants to grow market share?” you’d probably get a different response than if you ask “who wants some ice […]
Buyer’s Remorse
2014-06-12 – I first heard the expression “buyer’s remorse” when I was in law school. It refers to a person who buys a home and then immediately regrets it. You […]
Child Rearing in a Traditional Family?
2014-05-20 – One of the last secular arguments against gay marriage is focused on raising children. Never mind that a sizeable fraction of hetero marriages never have children at all […]
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