The Macho Masculine Manly Man
— A useless remnant from our evolutionary past.
Our appendix is considered a “vestigial organ” that has no function anymore yet creates a dispropor...
Understanding Mental Health by Tearing Down Some Walls
Diagnosing mental health disorders isn’t one of those easy professions, like, for example, brain surgery or rocket science. Enviably, those two specia...
That Tuesday in September
They will ask us: “Where were you and what were you doing that day?”
What concerns me is that no one will remember to describe the weather. We’ve s...
Citizens United, and the Making of America’s Frankenstein Monster
Citizens United needs no introduction; it will be forever remembered as the most polarizing Supreme Court decision of the contemporary era—so far. Wha...
Whataboutism: Ego in Search of Equilibrium
And again, an export from Russia has flooded the United States, designed to create division, diversion, and delusion. It’s the logical fallacy called ...
Fake Thinking and the Collision with Political Correctness
Using the same
standards used by the Fake News
accusers, I’m coining a new term to describe their super-sized hatred for political
correctness: Fake ...
Orphan of the Confederacy—Illegitimate Step-Sister of the Union
—The namesake and narrative behind Martinsburg’s Belle Boyd House.
In the millennial revision of the American Civil War, when many question why we ...