Tribalism
The only real conflict between “tribes” of people that has any significance is the conflict between the tribe with a moral compass and the tribe that lacks one.
Tribalism
The only real conflict between “tribes” of people that has any significance is the conflict between the tribe with a moral compass and the tribe that lacks one.
Stupid-ism
The Last Bastion of Prejudice “That’s really stupid of them”, is still a perfectly acceptable thing to say in modern society. However, insert virtually any other group descriptive in that sentence instead of stupid and you will be driven out of the village with pitchforks and torches. Try it: white, black, Arab, Jew, gay, short,…
Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean you’re not being followed.
There are more people in America who say they don’t know the name of the Vice President than who believe that dinosaurs watched the pyramids being built or that border collies existed from he beginning of time. (This may be literally true. See Pew Poll) So why is it that conservative politicians are routinely asked if they believe in…
there are only two kinds of people,
those who see the point and those who see only the pointer.
Can we absolve the collective debt that humans owe to animals just by eating tofu? Twenty-two years into vegetarianism, I had an epiphany that I was being hypocritical. I lived thru the winter with the benefit of modern grains and imported vegetables while self-righteously eschewing the consumption of the flesh of grazing animals raised five…
Immigration ain’t a river in Egypt, that’s denial. Immigration has been a timely topic for a while now. Everyone seems upset. Everyone seems polarized. As usual, there is little entertainment value in a moderate, reasoned approach. Thus, we appear doomed to a media circus pitting the “Free-them-all-ers” against the “Off-with-their-heads-ers.” The polarization, this time, seems to have…
Shouldn’t the standard be higher to force a drug than to convince that it isn’t needed? Fluoridation hysteria rears its head whenever the topic of adding fluoride to the water supply is broached. It seems that a few people are rabidly against it, and about an equal number are rabidly in favor of it. Most folks seem…
The Handicap Principle in social posturing. There is nothing like earning a spot on the endangered species list to elevate a trash fish to haute cuisine. For centuries, the codfish was the protein of peasants: the salted baccalà of the Mediterranean and its immigrants, the pennies per pound, frozen bricks of cod fillets, broiled while…