Turning a year of tragedy into personal growth, lessons learned, and finding happiness.
The Lesser of the Two Evil Argument
This is personal and might be emotional. It’s about Trump’s travel ban. Growing up I read how conservatives fall in line, while liberals want to fall in love. No one is good enough for them. Or how liberals eat their own because no one can stand up to their self-righteous morals. We want new faces.…
Thoughts on Increasing Diversity
I have been wrong about the diversity vs merit debate. I support policies to increase diversity, but I used to think merit should be the final determining factor in admissions or hiring. I am not arguing for hiring unqualified candidates, nor does the word diversity referred here means only skin color. Diversity to prevent homogeneity…
Voting in Kentucky
Access to voting is a dear topic to me and I donate money towards expanding voting. But lazy outrage is one of my huge pet peeves. Because of the pandemic, 60 days before today's primary, Kentucky announced that all registered voters can request mail-in-ballots. Nearly 900,000 such ballots were sent out. And because of the…
Retraining Police
We expect police to do too much and without enough training. In Georgia, to be an officer requires a high school diploma and 11 weeks of training. In Germany, police training is 2.5 to 4 years. We can screen better in applications. We can train and teach better, including ethics, psychology and sociology. In Germany,…
Of Hoaxes and Conspiracy Theories
I am so sensitive, I cry frequently. I am so soft, I cannot kill a cockroach. But very few things boil my blood like hoaxes and harmful conspiracy theories. It can take days to write all the points to refute one, yet the burden of proof is not on the one spreading such claims, but…
Roles of a Government
A government's core function is competency, regardless of ideology.
Why the patriarchy is killing men – The Washington Post
Gender equality isn’t just good for women. It also saves men’s lives. — Read on beta.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-the-patriarchy-is-killing-men/2019/09/12/2490fa7e-d3ea-11e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html
Opinion | I’m a Black Feminist. I Think Call-Out Culture Is Toxic. – The New York Times
There are better ways of doing social justice work. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/opinion/sunday/cancel-culture-call-out.html
Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong? – The New York Times
In experiments on pig organs, scientists at Yale made a discovery that could someday challenge our understanding of what it means to die. — Read on http://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/magazine/dead-pig-brains-reanimation.html
The Philosopher-Scientist 