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Forcing To Game In A No Trump Hand.

JLL considers Donald Trump to be a 21st century Tom Thumb.I'm not sure why.He certainly violates JLL's principle of not hurting with words.There is something pre-adolescent in the nature of…

Dear Dignity:May I Have This Dance? (Or is it too dangerous?)

The Ben Peterson article re dignity("The Dangerous Side of Dignity") appearing in "The Intercollegiate Review" invokes visions of heaven and hell in mankind's struggle to claim dignity.It asserts that it…

R.I.P. Big Dan !

We lost an old friend and new blog contributor with the death of Daniel Sugarman PhD after a short illness, last week.Dan was an outstanding human being,therapist and teacher.He was…

An Inherent Right To Dignity

An early cast member of the Star Trek team referred to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a blackface clown.This indictment was,among other things,probably meant to wound Thomas'feelings.J.L. has told…

(Supreme Judicial Dissent)”A slave has no inherent right to dignity…” …Oh All Wise Justice ,Is there an inherent right for one man to own another?

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Putting aside what this utterance may say about the issue of personal identity discontinuity, it raises the more fundamental issue of ultimate referential authority.Strict constructionism identifies the constitution as that…

Discoursing With Pariahs Some Reincarnations.

The excuse of mental illness has no place here and psychiatrists and psychologists have spoken to this.On a whimsical note...Is Rachel Dolezal repeatedly unsuccessfully auditioning for the social role of…

Snow White and Identity Discontinuity

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A young woman in Spokane who heads the regional NAACP and who self identifies as black was "outed" by her estranged parents as being white and of German, Czech and…

A Tale of Many Cities

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Mckinney Texas joins L.A.,Long Beach,Tulsa,Miami etc,etc in its tale of racially motivated abuse of police power.Perhaps in no incident is it clearer that "fearing for one's life" had no relevance.What…

Demystification:Some Thoughts From an Octogenarian Brain

Courts,police,military,public education??...

The Tongue Has the Power Of Life and Death:Proverbs 18:21

Over 4 decades ago Dr.Thomas and I published a brief article discussing the relationship between social inequity and emotional sickness.(Claudewell S. Thomas,Jacob J. Lindenthal,"The Depression of the Opressed,"Mental Health 1975:…