Category: Blog Posts


  • Fulfill Your Potential For You, Not For Anyone Else

    Someone posted this saying on social media today, and it has me feeling “some kind of way”, as they say. When you become lazy it’s disrespectful to those who believe in you. Bottom line, don’t waste your potential. While I agree it would be a shame to waste your potential, I strongly disagree with the…

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  • Believe Them

    I have learned more about the Holocaust via 90 minutes of documentaries (“Night and Fog” by Alain Resnais and “The Holocaust: What the Allies Knew” by Kino Lorber Edu.) and by reading the first chapter of Richard L. Rubenstein’s “The Cunning of History” than I did in 12 years of grade school, 6 years of…

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  • Don’t Worry. Be Angry.

    We do ourselves a disservice by believing all anger is unhealthy.

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  • This Is a War, Not a Simple Disagreement

    This Is a War, Not a Simple Disagreement

    As much as we’d like to believe so, we are not merely having a polite, mutually respectful difference of opinion.

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  • Social Facts, an Unfinished Thought

    I wrote this thought last November while studying sociological theory and left it in my drafts. I wonder where I was going with this thought. Societies are, for the most part, self-regulating. Each one determines what is and is not acceptable behavior in that society over and above what is written in law. These unwritten…

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