Uncategorized Trump & Sanders,Threats to Party Integrity ? 10 Apr 2016 Donald Trump's charge toward 1237 committed delegates appears to have been slowed.Some of this, no doubt,redounds to his Barnum and Bailey showmanship with playing to the proximate audience as his…
Uncategorized Panama,Oligarchs,Sympathy & Hope(POSH) 10 Apr 2016 The revelations from Panama of the massive efforts on the part of some of the world's rich and powerful to protect their wealth from taxation as well as the ministorm…
Uncategorized The Panamanian Leak 6 Apr 2016 Recently I had a conversation with an old friend who is very wealthy.I asked him what he thought the behavioral motivation was behind any number of human activities.He is a…
Uncategorized Empathy vs Greed: An Old,Old Story 4 Apr 2016 Thanks SB for the Ted's blog reference "6 studies on how money affects the mind".In this 2013 presentation social psychologist Paul Piff gives us 6 Findings , 1 WE RATIONALIZE…
Uncategorized Obama’s Confrontation With America’s Soft Imperialism. 24 Mar 2016 Leaving Cuba and that confrontation with relatively recent(50 years)American/Cuban hostility,President Obama heads for Argentina where his arrival coincides with the anniversary of the ascent to power of a brutal military…
Uncategorized Symbolic Interaction&The 2016 Indian Wells/Paribus Final 21 Mar 201621 Mar 2016 The surprising parallelism between Serena Williams' career and the turmoil of America's inequity crisis continues.Serena's decision to forgive and reconcile was admirable but clearly costly.It earned the amazing praise and…
Uncategorized Brave New World 6 Mar 20166 Mar 2016 Clarence Thomas asks his first questions in ten years and jokes with Justice Breyer.Three women justices shred the anti abortion arguments of the Texas attorney general; Teflon Don Trump barrels…
Uncategorized The Apple of your (FB)Eye 22 Feb 2016 David Hume is haunting us.The problem of knowing what is true is too much with us! Our "passions"( modern lingo...feelings...)mislead us.The Apple/FBI-Judiciary dispute is a perfect example.My instinctive response was…
Uncategorized Intergenerational Dialogue 18 Feb 2016 As has been noted previously(and often) a major aim of this blog is to promote dialogue between generations.Recent developments in the U.S. and the world seem to have intensified(if possible)…
Uncategorized Disparity 17 Feb 2016 HW(pitcherinthewry.blogspot.com) supplied us a N.Y. Times article indicating that lifespan disparity between the rich and poor in the U.S. had increased to incredible proportions.While modified by gender,race,and ethnicity the fact…
The Octogenarians 