Over time, multiple administrations, Democrat and Republican, presumptively liberal and conservative respectively, have brought our society into a generally unhappy place. Polls show that most Americans feel our current state is not good and that we’re headed in the wrong direction. Most also sense that we’re where we are because of things we did or didn’t do, not because of external forces. Continue reading “Liberal and Conservative – Stuck in the Same Swamp?”
Tag: Citizenship
Thoughts On the Gender Spectrum
Sex used to be simple. There were just two, defined and fixed at conception. Now intellectuals have discovered gender, asserting that gender identity is essentially a cultural construct which, far from an either or phenomenon, is construed as a spectrum of genders blending from all female to all male and maybe other.
As much as traditionalists may be appalled, based on findings from behavioral and biological sciences, the basic assertion that much of our sexuality is (or can be) culturally defined seems to be a fact. So, if it’s science-based, what’s the problem?
Guns be Gone?
Gun control is an emotional issue. I don’t really understand why that should be so, yet many educated people are, so to speak, up in arms to control guns and see the roadblock to sensible measures as the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. Continue reading “Guns be Gone?”
Black and Blue
Our culture seems to be slipping into running on feelings at the expense of thought. As a consequence, as we get upset at more and more things, we are ever less capable of dealing effectively with the very things that upset us. Continue reading “Black and Blue”
What is a Healthy Society?
I asked myself how can we weigh or measure policies coming from different perspectives? By what yardstick can we gauge their validity?
Confessions of a Bad Citizen
I have been a bad citizen most of my life. Not that I willfully broke laws like robbing banks or cheating on taxes, but because I did not realize that a free society is not a free ride.
Stop & Think 