What if we’re not bigoted so much as paranoid? What if discrimination is merely a symptom, and the bigger, actual problem lies just below the surface: We’re afraid. We’re simply trying to block any person that could lead to our own untimely (or even timely) death. Today the topic-du-jour is immigration from any Muslim-heavy country […]
Read More →This article originally appeared in The Orlando Sentinel, Dec. 21, 2015 A new employee shows up at work wearing a headscarf, which shows only eyes, but no one goes out of his or her way to greet her. She has a life different than our own and worships in ways we don’t understand. Plus, it’s […]
Read More →Technology is destroying America, but it’s not the self-driving cars, loss of privacy or generation of young people buried in cell phones. It’s Facebook. Twenty years ago, the U.S. had skinheads and radicals on both the left and right. But 20 years ago, the radicals couldn’t find each other – their circle of crazies was […]
Read More →In a go-go-go world created by 140-word Tweets and attention spans that evaporate in 33 seconds, Americans push hard to “get to the point.” It’s a fine attitude for a few issues, such as … well, none come to mind, but there are a few. Issues – and the people who have an opinion about […]
Read More →Some people game “the system.” Someone, somewhere collects unemployment or food stamps or surplus cheese that doesn’t deserve it. Now and again, one of them gets caught, their story goes viral, and an entire welfare program is condemned. The victims: The people who really need help. We have three choices: Stop all government programs that […]
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