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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?

27 Jun 201527 Jun 2015

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

13 Jun 201514 Jun 2015

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

11 Jun 201511 Jun 2015

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??...

Return to Burn Baby Burn Or Not?

4 May 20154 May 2015

Baltimore's Freddie Gray joins Walter Scott and a host of other black young men who have met their deaths at the hands of police.In Ferguson Oklahoma a suit for $75,000…

Discoursing With Pariahs Continued

20 Apr 201521 Apr 2015

This is the anniversary of the second worst case of domestic terrorism in the U.S. The site was Oklahoma City.(O woe Oklahoma!) The perpetrators were Timothy McVey and Terry Hollins.168…

Law & Disorder While Judge Dredd Rides Again.

19 Apr 201519 Apr 2015

Another spate of police shootings,another series of video documentation of abuse of power or incredibly poor judgment mark the last few weeks.You begin to wonder what would happen if firemen…