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
“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?
In late September 2002, on a campground in Southwestern New Hampshire, United States I sat around a small fire in the woods with some of my best friends. We all met for the first time 5 years prior. We bonded over live music, and pro-wrestling. Our host’s brother in-law, a self-avowed nazi, was joining for the weekend. Dennis, the self-avowed
This weekend I did a job I had never done before. I’m not talking about a job on the other side of the shop, or org chart. I’m talking about completely new and different work to me. I went to work with people whom I had never before worked, materials I had never handled, technologies I had never seen, and