Politics: Please Fire the Pundits!
I should be a pundit. According to a new study, I possess the two qualities most predictive of accurate prognostication. More on that shortly. You should be a pundit; you have as much chance of being correct in your predictions as most pundits. More on that a bit later too. Remember the days when there […]
Read MorePolitics: Too Bad Kids Can’t Vote
If children could vote, then I’m sure politicians in both our federal and state governments would demonstrate some actual concern for them rather than demonstrating a wanton disregard for these little citizens who are the future of America. This profound indifference to the needs of our children is displayed starkly in how the federal and […]
Read MorePolitics: Three Words We Need to Hear More in Politics
You didn’t hear those three words from the liberals after their off-the-mark accusations of right-wing instigation of the Tucson tragedy. You didn’t hear them from Michele Bachmann after her history-revising Tea Party response to President Obama’s State of the Union speech. These three words are almost entirely absent from the political landscape. Yet, for America […]
Read MorePolitics: The Futility of Civility
In the aftermath of the Tucson tragedy, there has been much renewed discussion about the tenor of political discourse in America and the need for a return to a more civil tone among those with divergent views. But even such a horrible national event couldn’t tear many in the politicosphere from their ideological high horses. […]
Read MorePolitics: Disgust: Political Emotion of the Times
There have been a whole lot of emotions flying around this fall leading up to and in the aftermath of the mid-term elections in November. Before November 2nd, there was mostly frustration and anger on the Right and fear and resignation on the Left. After the “shellacking” at the polls, another set of emotions kicked […]
Read MorePolitics: Consumers Should Be “Too Big to Fail”
As distasteful as it was to see the financial, insurance, and automotive industries bailed out for their greedy and reckless behavior, it seems clear that President Bush’s and President Obama’s decisions to do so were correct. Allowing the “too big to fail” companies to fail, however much they deserved to die a slow and painful […]
Read MorePolitics: The Psychic Toll of the Great Recession
Of course I’m concerned about the financial well-being of our citizens. Every layoff and foreclosure hurts not only individuals and their families, but also the over-all health of our economy. But, given my Ph.D. in Psychology, I’m also deeply concerned about the impact of the Great Recession on the individual psyches of Americans who strain […]
Read MorePolitics: When Did the Senate Turn into Pre-school?
I’ve become quite an authority on pre-schoolers these days. My eldest daughter just finished pre-school and my youngest daughter is in her second year. Plus, I’m writing my third parenting book tentatively titled, Parenting on Message: The 9 Essential Messages to Give Your Child a Great Start to Life (The Experiment Publishing, Spring, 2011), which […]
Read MorePolitics/Popular Culture: Losing the Real Culture War
In recent decades, America has become embroiled in a so-called “culture war” between the right and left, red states and blue states. This culture war, supposedly fought over the moral values that are intended to guide our country, has created a schism so wide and seemingly so insurmountable that, as we stand now, a future […]
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