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KRVS Après-Midi Interview

2018.09.24 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

Judith Meriwether and Joseph N. Abraham, MD, discuss Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths on Après-Midi from KRVS, the Acadiana NPR affiliate

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Posted in: Books Tagged: Partisan Politics, Tolerance, Wisdom

Intolerance vs Intolerance

2018.09.02 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

I would enthusiastically support ‘Story Time by the LGBT+ Community.’ I do not support ‘Drag Queen Story Time.’ My concern is one of intolerance vs intolerance.

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Posted in: Books, Education Tagged: Anger Mongering, Hammer Thinking, Liberal and Conservative, Tolerance

Dead, Dead, Dead: The Thanatocracy

2017.10.08 by Bookscrounger 3 Comments

Constitutional fundamentalists, like other fundamentalists, yield thought and free will in worship and submission to the dead authority of the thanatocracy, a system that is dead, dead, dead.

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Posted in: Knowledge, Politics Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics, Tolerance, Wisdom

Ridiculing Neo-Nazis

2017.08.28 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

Ridiculing neo-Nazis and other extremists is a powerful tool, but one that can also backfire badly. It is imperative that we offer carrots with the sticks.

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Posted in: Knowledge, Politics Tagged: Anger Mongering, Football Mentality, Hammer Thinking, Partisan Politics, Tolerance, Trump, Wisdom

Racism: Charlottesville

2017.08.17 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

Racism is as old as humanity. But the word, and the concept, are quite recent.

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Posted in: Politics Tagged: Anger Mongering, Tolerance, Wisdom

Advice for New Parents

2017.07.20 by Bookscrounger 4 Comments
Child Reading, New Parents

How an ER doctor became a primary care doctor, and developed a talk for new parents.

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Posted in: Education, Medicine Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Medicine, Teaching, Tolerance, Wisdom

America in One Word: Feedback

2017.07.10 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
America in One Word

As a multifaceted country, it is hard to define America in one word; but ‘feedback’ seems a good candidate, and explains our ‘Big 3 Freedoms’ as well.

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Posted in: Biology, Politics Tagged: Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics, Small Evolution, Tolerance, Wisdom

From Ailes to Trump

2016.07.25 by Bookscrounger 7 Comments

The problem with anger-mongering is that it doesn’t stop without catastrophe. Roger Ailes got the boilers going, but Donald Trump hijacked the train.

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Posted in: Politics Tagged: Anger Mongering, Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics, Tolerance, Wisdom

War on Women, War on Children

2016.07.22 by Bookscrounger 8 Comments

The hard right has been waging a War on Women, and their freedoms. It appears they are also waging a War on Children, and their intellectual freedoms.

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Posted in: Education, Politics Tagged: Liberal and Conservative, Lifelong Learning, Teaching, Tolerance, Wisdom

The Majority Illusion

2016.07.04 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

The concept of majority rule is essential for democracy. The problem is, what we think is a majority is really a majority illusion.

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Posted in: Politics Tagged: Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics, Tolerance, Wisdom
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