Every Christmas movie worth its salt has a single underlying message: The only important thing in life is the way we treat each other. It has Biblical references in the golden rule, and it’s the core concept of anti-bullying campaigns. It’s also the underpinning of any solid society because a how-we-treat-each-other philosophy is the glue […]
Read More →The post-election recovery isn’t going as planned. On the first day after a presidential election, the losing party usually cries and curses. The second day they lick wounds. The third day they start to rationalize their new reality: “Okay, this is a loss, but there’s one good thing …” followed in short order by “I […]
Read More →A laser focus on bigots misses the point. Hate drives most of today’s problems. We spend too much time talking as if hate and bigotry are the same thing. Imagine two people: Ida Mae Everton, who just happens to have the first name of my great-grandmother, loves all God’s creatures. She has cats and dogs, […]
Read More →The unexpected dinner guest, for me, is a six-foot drag queen with two-inch eyelashes and head-to-toe body glitter. But first some background. In 1967, Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn welcomed their daughter and fiancé home for dinner only to discover that the young man was black – a “shudder” mixed-race couple in the movie “Guess […]
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 […]
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