Collecting My Thoughts

In 2017, an estimated 1,720 children died from abuse, and 72% of them were younger than three years old.  April is National Child Abuse Pre...

Jeffrey Varasano:  "I'm old enough to remember when vilification of a 17 year old required that he be accused of grabbing a girl wi...

Not sure where the charges of racism against Trump come from. It's the classic middle school bullying technique. Your mom wears combat b...

 Someone (a liberal) was asking why Obama gets blamed for the bathroom wars--or, the butt stops there. It's his administration that has...

For years, gays (except librarians, stage actors, ballet dancers, male models, some female athletes, women's clothing designers, and hai...

Imagine if next year Rednecks became a protected victim group, everyone who has shared this photo, or laughed at it, or "liked" it...

When I was working back in the 90s at Ohio State, I attended a number of workshops on being sensitive to people of other cultures and abilit...

Political donations are covered under the first amendment--freedom of speech. Belief in traditional marriage is covered under the first amen...

The IRS is bullying conservatives, Christians, wealthy Republican donors and small government patriots, and using audits, electronic snoop...

Not a day goes by that I don’t hear something on the news about bullying. Today it was on Catholic radio and concerned bullying with social...

This blog is written to suit Norma, not its readers. She hopes that what suits her will suit them; but, if not, it will make no difference. ...

Today's Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on the history of shaming--from the scarlet letter, to names of tax delinquents ...

So who told us those myths? We stopped in Brownsburg, Indiana for gas yesterday and I glanced at a USAToday story about the murders 10 years...

Today's new word is TRAJECTORY At least it is new to me the way it is used in Archives of General Psychiatry 2008;65(10) 1185-1192. My s...