Judging Others’ Choices

An article over at The Federalist posited an interesting question about what society accepts and what it does not. Why Is Transgender An Identity But Anorexia A Disorder, is about where we draw the line between individual choice and mental illness, but it raises a...

Shock and Condescension

A few years ago, I attended a small party, a birthday celebration for a friend of a friend. The celebrant’s husband worked for the United Nations, as did some of the other party goers (all Europeans). They were nice enough people, but my lingering memory of that...
Very Smart and Very Wrong

Very Smart and Very Wrong

There’s a long-standing tradition in politics of deeming the guy at the top “stupid” if you don’t like his politics. George W. Bush is arguably the most famous of our recent presidents to suffer such slings and arrows, but if you Google...

*Something* Must Be Done!

Our human nature prompts us to react when confronted with a stressful action or situation. The fight-or-flight reaction is physiological, and thus we naturally seek some sort of measurable response when we witness a bad act or bad situation. So it goes with atrocities...

Orwell, Occam’s Razor and Orlando

A man, born and raised in the Islamic faith, whose father was a vocal critic of America, a vocal supporter of the Taliban, whose faith not only calls homosexuality a sin but calls for its punishment, called 911 to pledge allegiance to ISIS, then walked into a gay bar...