Every now and then I’m reminded that what I do is dangerous. However, for me it’s a calculated risk, as I’ll explain in a moment. Today the American writer and blogger Avijit Roy was murdered in Bangladesh. He was killed by Islamists with machetes as he left a book fair. His wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya…
Projection
March 28, 2014
The obsession with Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church is the most transparent case of psychological projection I’ve ever seen. There are several definitions of projection. Here’s the one I’ll use for the purposes of this post. A defense mechanism of denying flaws in yourself while attributing them to others. There’s no other explanation…
An apolitical look at “death panels”
October 21, 2013
I just read an article titled “Canada has Death Panels—and That’s a Good Thing,” by Adam Goldenberg. My plan is to avoid expressing political opinions. It’s not hard, because politics has become astonishingly negative and destructive. This is truly a shame, and it’s shameful. There are lots of things I’d like to talk about. We…