Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 25, 2020
Why We Must All Do Something About Anti-Semitism
The statistics are disheartening. Hate crimes against Jews are growing at an alarming rate— up 14 percent this past year...
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Media & Ethics
November 17, 2020
Family Guy: 20 Years of Pandering to the Worst in Us
Within one page of dialogue it managed to trash not only Judaism and Catholicism as faiths, but also their adherents and their...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
November 5, 2020
The Tree of Life—Two Years Later
Genesis tells us there were two trees in Eden: the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life. Whereas Adam and Eve were punished...
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Media & Ethics
September 28, 2020
Andy Marlette Proves Bigotry Still Has a Platform, Even in 2020
It never ceases to amaze me that stupidity and arrogance so often go hand in hand, or in Pensacola News Journal columnist...
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Religious Freedom
September 4, 2020
A Bittersweet Anniversary: What Was It With Germany?
Three generations earlier the grandparents of the Germans who affirmed our right to believe had engaged in an attack on a...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 13, 2020
Disney: It’s Time to Pull the Plug on A&E
The loss in viewership, attributed to A&E’s cancellation of its police show, Live PD, exposed a suppurating inoperable tumor...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 1, 2020
Flipping the Bigots
When he awoke the following morning, #JewishPrivilege was again trending on Twitter, but not because of the anti-Semites who...
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Religious Literacy
June 9, 2020
The Creation of Love & Hate
In doing these things He sat in council with Adam. “Lord,” said Adam, “will You not grant us a gift—a miracle that...
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Scientology Religion
May 26, 2020
Happy Birthday, Dianetics!
This month, the world marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, the...
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Media & Ethics
May 11, 2020
Meghan & Harry Are Fed Up, and So Are We
The couple’s public statement is a shot across the bow at a disturbing trend that has become the new normal over recent...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
May 2, 2020
Twenty Million More
We sat in front of the rabbi that day in 1977, my wife and I, a bit sheepishly explaining how we had run off and gotten married...
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Religious Freedom
March 29, 2020
The Real Deal With Disconnection
A friend of mine who lived among the native Inuits of far Northern Canada told me that if a person in the community, through...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
February 19, 2020
Beware the False Prophets of Profit
Dr. Singer is long dead now, gone to whatever religion’s Hell will deign to accept her. But she has her disciples who carry...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 23, 2019
The Most Precious Thing
Nearly a thousand years ago a great army besieged a castle. Day after day, the army bombarded it with great boulders and flaming...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 29, 2019
Is This Who We Really Are?
I, for one, don’t believe it. Don’t get me wrong. I believe the statistics, the surveys and the opinions. I believe the...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 1, 2019
Love In the Age of Granfalloons
My Facebook brothers and sisters have become tribes, or more precisely, granfalloons. A granfalloon, as defined by the coiner...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 14, 2019
House Passes Anti-Bigotry Resolution
No matter what the politics were behind it, no matter what backroom deals and compromises spawned it, no matter what debates,...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
March 1, 2019
One Method of Handling a Bigot
It’s OK to be honestly irked. It’s OK to have a zero-tolerance policy for bigots and bozos. And you don’t need eloquence...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
January 1, 2019
Hate, Inc.: The Marketing of Bigotry for Profit
Bricks through windows, swastikas scrawled on synagogues, charred African-American churches, knocked-over tombstones in Jewish...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
December 19, 2018
Leah Remini vs. Everyone: Welcome to the Dark Ages
A recent spate of hate-inspired fires in five Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Halls brings up a pointed question: Is Leah Remini...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
October 28, 2018
The High Tech of Hate
The mind can absorb 20 images per second. Video runs at about 25 images per second. That means that for every second of TV...
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Media & Ethics
October 17, 2018
The Media: “We Have Met The Enemy And It Is Us”
Every time you share a meme or a column or a podcast or a video that you like or agree with, YOU become media.
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
August 1, 2018
Disney: It Was Dopey All Along
Things looked rosy at the Disney Studio in 1938. Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs was boffo at the box office, and a new star...
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Combating Bigotry & Hate
July 24, 2018
Leah Remini Dies and Goes to… ?
“Wait!!” Remini shouted. “Not THAT! Anything but THAT!! I’ll take fire and brimstone instead! Please! Mercy!”
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