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"It is not a sign of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
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Author, columnist, and blogger with a long career in business management, management consulting and executive coaching. I've authored and published eight books: "You, Your Self and the 21st Century,"The Flowers Are Talking to Me," and "Faith Stirred Not Shaken," Christianity in America, "The Martian Prelude," Faith Stirred not Shaken, 2nd edition," "On Coaching with The Birkman Method." "On Coaching with The Birkman Method," and coming soon is my new book, "Loosing" Your Mind: Liberating Your Intellect for Critical Thinking." For sale at your favorite booksellers or the publisher's site: booklocker.com
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Monday, December 9, 2013O'Reilly's War On Christmas But think about it. Is there really a war on Christmas? Christmas is the longest season of the year, opening up retail stores on Thanksgiving day for pre-season shopping. Those same stores are decorated, some starting in October, with seasonal trimmings from stem to stern.
Monday, November 25, 2013Who are You Thankful to This Year? It's that time of the year again. Let's murder a turkey and give thanks. But to whom? To whom do you owe your gratitude?
Thursday, November 21, 2013Is This President that Bad? Really? As an individual non-story being disguised as a news item this seems harmless enough. But when added together with a constant stream, its accumulative effect results in a distorted notion of this president's performance.
Saturday, November 16, 2013Do We Hate Each Other in America? The truth is the nation was never unified. It was dominated by an archetype from one of the eleven nations that make up America. And the upheaval we suffer is shaped by a futile effort of that group (think Republican Party here) to maintain domination rather than share power.
Monday, October 14, 2013A Reflection on a God in America Here's the key question: Am I being blasphemous by asking these questions or are those who believe in this particular and peculiar American god? Let's explore together.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013Government Shutdown: A Ploy of the Christian Right? It should concern us all that there is a well-funded movement pressing science, intellectual discourse, and reason out of the public domain and attempting to replace them with pre-enlightenment thinking or, in Harris's words, with "a vastitude of ignorance."
Monday, October 7, 2013American Dystopia Anyone but the deluded, clueless and/or marginally conscious can see the crisis is being created by the very congress that claims it's Mr. Obama's fault for not being willing to negotiate away a law passed by the congress, tested by the Supreme Court and ratified again by an election of the same president.
Thursday, October 3, 2013Where are the Unions? What was once the gateway to the middle class has become an artifact of a non-existent era: Partly because some unions became rackets and partly because management decided that vast majority of the benefits of healthy companies should go to the owners of the capital.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013The Immorality of the Shutdown What do the government shutdown and moral choices have in common? Can it be justified by party line politics?
Friday, September 27, 2013Facts Don't Matter In Politics Why try to provide the facts to support an argument? Why spend countless hours scanning the Internet for information that will expose the truths underlying the artifice we call reality?
Thursday, September 26, 2013SAT Scores Under 50 Percent - Again Is there a causal relationship between cuts in social welfare and education funding and poor performance on the SAT or is it just a statistical fluke?
Monday, September 16, 2013Mysteries That Keep Me Awake at NIght Certain mysteries keep this author awake at night. And he doesn't think there are explanations.
Thursday, September 12, 2013Are Christian Principles to be Found in Capitalism? Scalia Thinks So! As with so many other issues, we Americans like to debate the symptoms and not the causes. In the supposedly best capitalist system in the world, why do so many people need charity, whether it be from the church of government? And why has the number been growing for the last three decades? And exactly what Christian virtues are manifested in a form of capitalism that makes this country one the of the worst for income equality
Wednesday, September 11, 20139/11: A Reminder and Opportunity to Say No to War As a species we just might be beginning to see what has been long taught by the great prophets: peace won't be won by war and violence.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013Religious Freedom: Free to Leave If You Don't Believe. "Fox News host Dana Perino this week suggested that atheists should leave the country instead of trying to maintain the separation of church and state." I wonder what she has in mind for agnostics.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013Fundamentalist Christians 1: Everyone Else 0 You can't argue with a fundamentalist Christian unless you accept the in-errancy of the Bible.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013Speaking Truth to the PowerLESS Speaking truth to the powerful is considered a valiant act, although in most instances, it's also futile. The reason seems to be that the powerful have a lot to conserve and aren't much interested in anyone's truth but their own.
Friday, August 30, 2013Racism and God for Profit Profit is our god. Racism is an offering on its altar.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013The Redistribution of Wealth Continues Wealth is being redistributed from the bottom to the top but the mega rich will never have enough.
Monday, August 26, 2013The Yin and Yang of Racism in America Yes, racism is a big problem in America. But there are least two sides to the story and lame-brained commentary doesn't make it easier to understand.
