“Just a Flesh Wound”: Moving Past Stupid Arguments
How many times have you seen a TV segment or newspaper discussion about some hotly-contested issue in which a person with experience, education, training, and professional background is presented next...
View Article‘If’ Doesn’t Belong In Apologies
You apologize because you hurt someone. That’s why you do it. Within that, there are three basic reasons to apologize: You did something wrong and it hurt people. You did something right, but it hurt...
View ArticleWant Your Kids To Survive Common Core? (short version)
If you like this article, would you Like and follow my new Hollis Easter, Writer page on Facebook and tell me what you liked about it? (This is a shortened version of Want Your Kids To Survive Common...
View ArticleWant Your Kids To Survive Common Core? Do These 6 Things
If you liked this article, would you Like and follow my Hollis Easter, Writer page on Facebook and tell me why? (Also check out my page on misconceptions and fears about Common Core. There’s a lot of...
View ArticleThe Protocol For Help
If you like this article, would you Like and follow my new Hollis Easter, Writer page on Facebook and tell me what you liked about it? Not all those who wander are lost, and not all those who struggle...
View ArticleA Taoist Parable of Elections
Once upon a time, there dwelt a family in a small town in northern New Hampshire. There they lived in community, some recent immigrants and others Mayflower types, farming the thin soil and trying not...
View ArticleWhy Does Assisted Suicide Bother Us So Much?
I’ve noticed something: people are really conflicted about assisted suicide. And they’re really motivated to do something about it. There are huge policy debates about it, religious arguments, medical...
View ArticleProtected By The Color Of Our Skin
In my mind, I imagine myself in his shoes, tall, stocky, angry, scared. I imagine the officers beginning to fly at me, and the feeling of a man on my back, his arm locked around my throat, the elbow...
View ArticleThe CIA Torture Report: Summary of Findings
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program today. The 525-page report, declassified after being heavily...
View ArticleDoes Privilege Still Exist In Our Society?
YES. Now can we please stop asking that question and start figuring out what to do about it? “But I don’t see it…” IT IS THERE. “But it’s invisible to me.” NO, YOU SEE ITS EFFECTS EVERY DAY. “… what?”...
View ArticleThe Naked Truth About The Trump Statues
This week, statues of Donald Trump began to appear, seemingly at random, across the United States. The statues depict him naked and fat. My slice of the social media world has absolutely exploded with...
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To Feel The Chill
It suffices, perhaps, to say that this has been a dark time. A time of hope transmuted into fear, a time of disbelief, a time of anger, a time of labor, a time of love, a time of mute horror limned by...
View Article‘If’ Doesn’t Belong In Apologies
You apologize because you hurt someone. That’s why you do it. Within that, there are three basic reasons to apologize: You did something wrong and it hurt people. You did something right, but it hurt...
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