COVID’s Most Dangerous Co-Morbidity
The phenomenon of having high confidence and low information has its benefits in society, it allows people to take chances that they otherwise wouldn’t, and those chances can turn into some impressive feats.
A Second Great Purge
Something that captures the imagination about politics for me is how thoughts and ideas can be turned into life-altering realities over both short and long timespans. It’s more than a little scary at times.
An Argument For Core Competency
What qualifies the people who go to these events? What makes them worthy of the rare opportunity to challenge the ideas of the powerful in the Democratic Party?
So is it wrong to ask the question?
When we go to school we learn by questioning, and the answers to those questions form the ways we see the world, but should we ever be prohibited from asking questions?
The Massacre of Charlie the Atheist
For the purposes of this discussion the personal confessional preferences of the now brutally slaughtered cartoonists, journalists, and staff of the Paris-based Charlie Hebdo magazine are irrelevant. For the sake of their profession, these cartoonists and journalists were atheists.
Why are we so silent?
In Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and far too many places around the world we seem to be missing a major human rights violation. The treatment of women in these regions qualifies for barbarism by any standard, and the horrific state of affairs in these regions eclipses the rest of the world in its severity.
Smoke Free, Live Free, Love Free!
As separate as they may seem the reason for the guilt or shame associated with the prohibitions on lurid sexual behaviors and recreational marijuana usages come from the same place.
Did Hobby Lobby pierce its own corporate veil?
The idea that a corporation is not just a separate entity that is remotely controlled for the purposes of business administration, but that the business is being used to promote and extend the personal identification of the person or persons that are operating it.
Good Guy with a Gun
So here is a good guy with a gun, here is a man who died trying to use his weapon to stop violence rather than retreating and finding cover. The only thing that failed him was the fact that he didn’t suspect that there was more than one shooter, and that simple and honest miscalculation cost him his life.
Social Injustices
Note: This is a speculative fiction short story based on the lives of several people, their names and the specific circumstances of the events have been either omitted or altered.