I was thinking about these trolley problems recently. When forced to choose between two horrible things, which would you choose? My curious thoughtful response to this is why do we have to do horrible things? Have you considered that you may be wrong? Maybe it’s not either this or that. Maybe the answer is more complex and uncertain. Maybe the
Estranged family, distanced friendships, and burned bridges lay in the wake of my simple assertion that dignity is a human right. Early on I was hurt by these people who called themselves my colleagues, my friend, my family and still treated me as less than human. And, despite these losses consuming me, the grief was good. The loss of colleagues
I was going to write about the H1B controversy this week, but then a story broke that requires attention. The Trump regime disappeared 1,200 souls from an extrajudicial terror camp in a Florida swamp. From my non-lawyer perspective, this violates the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution which opens with the clause, “right of the people to be secure
Growing up in the United States in the late 20th century, I was steeped in binary thinking. From the two-party political system to the good guys, bad guys narrative, cowboys and Indians, true and false; yes or no was the answer to every question. This accelerated with the introduction of the home computer, functioning, at its core, on a series
People say things like, “this isn’t about your politics.” This idea of politics as something that can be possessed is predicated on a false premise. What you are really saying is, “I don’t care about the policies that impact me, and other residents of this community.” You see, I cannot possess politics like I possess the brush I use to clean
Tools and weapons are often the same. It is the application that determines the bucket into which they get put. Learn to use tools so that you are not fearful of the weapons wielded by sociopathy. Don’t let the criminals tell you that these tools are weapons only because they want to use them to kill, injure, and divide us.
“the jews are overcrowding our hospitals” – hitler“immigrants are a burden on medicare and medicaid” -trump These statements are both lies. They are lies that prey on our insecurities we have about life and death. Our insecure feelings about life and death give us the fear we need to rationalize the empowerment of this mass murdering child rapist. Get it?
Thank you to all the IT professionals who helped me when I asked, “Can you just add this A record to the DNS,” over the years. I recently had the chatbots guide me through implementing and troubleshooting DNS and virtual host configurations for my new site from the command line. In doing so, the bots taught me how complex and
When Wake’s knuckleball launched off of Aaron’s bat on the night of October 16, 2003, every member of Red Sox Nation was hit in the gut. The hit, so reminiscent of Bucky f’n Dent’s, hit us like Babe Ruth himself had put the lumber to the soft tissue of our midsections with his 38oz Louisville Slugger. We, the nation, Red
Sexual predators use a pattern of soothing jargon designed to pacify victims as they are stripped of their humanity, and hope is voided from their souls. We see similar patterns of language used by other abusers whose victims are resist their assault. These patterns extend into the business world by way of cowardly leadership afraid of, “rocking the boat.” “Look, let