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February 15, 2018

An Example of Unbundling of Legal Services

...er to the wife’s divorce packet, ascertained the significance of some past violence between them, determined their debt is essentially uncollectible, gave him the name of a good bankruptcy lawyer for a consult “just in case”, directed him to the Social Security Office to ascertain what would happen to his/her benefit checks in the event of a divorce. Provided him my article on “equitable distribution of property and debts”. Here it is: https://wp....

July 14, 2018

The Sad State of Our Fine Profession

...r. Here in WV the “wheels have come off”. Our local newspaper’s front page has great photos of people trying hard to keep our community vital, creative, and prosperous, next to story after story of drug offenses, collisions, police chases, child abuse, and gun violence. Our state and country is in trouble. Good, thoughtful, courageous, people need to reduce the rhetoric and buckle down and keep working for solutions. I will be doing that in my sli...

October 17, 2018

The Challenges to Modern Religion: Part 1

...ohamed, Confucius, and others, of empathy and compassion, sharing, and non-violence, stand by themselves, without the trappings of the supernatural. Modern dogma focuses of rituals, myths, sectarianism, judgementalism, tribalism, and discrimination. Just as I think no child should ever be told that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy are real, our church members should be encouraged to think for themselves, to study history, science,...

October 17, 2018

The Challenges to Modern Religion: Part II

...usic, spirituality, tolerance, and dislikes sectarian disputes, tribalism, violence, lying, cheating, stealing, deception, and greed, I want to be in it because the people in that church share my “can’t helps” not because some supernatural being told us what to think. You think my ideas are crazy? I cite, as a like-minded person, Carl Sagan in his book “The Demon – Haunted world: Science As A Candle In The Dark”. Over 20 years old but almost as he...

December 10, 2018

Truth, Myths, and Lies

...ess the “miracle” of his insights and teaching, compassion, tolerance, non-violence, “the golden rule”, and turning the other cheek. The historical precedent of wise religious and philosophical figures, all over the globe, coming up with these ideas as our civilizations matured is profoundly important, even though the myths used to convey them are lame and false. In a tribal, myth-filled, brutal, violent, and ignorant, world, such ideas truly were...

February 18, 2019

A 50 Year Retrospective

...tting an example for our “modern world”. Let’s leave the tribes, conflict, violence, and hate behind. Here are some conclusions I have reached: America has come a vast distance; the defeat of slavery, The Civil Rights Movement, the counter-attack to the counter-revolt of the Jim Crow South, racial integration of the military; integration of schools (Brown vs. Board of Education),   human rights, and women going from 10%, when I attended,  to 50% o...

May 17, 2022

A “SUMMING” LETTER TO A YOUNGER COLLEAGUE

...to teach “simple folk” principles of empathy, charity, tolerance, and non-violence, they or their followers had to “dumb it down” and set rules. They had to back up the “rules” with punishments, rewards, rituals, and promises. I instinctively recoil from such stuff. I prefer to figure it out for myself, even as a stay in my traditional church, sing traditional anthems in our choir, and follow, as best I can, a moral and ethical path. My “religion...

November 10, 2014

Remember the Children of Divorce.

...nce of the Republican Party and its mantra of “de-regulation”. Expect more violence in children’s shows, fewer roll models, more toy and junk food adds. Gone are the days of “Mr. Rogers”, “Captain Kangaroo”, and “Mr. Wizard”. I learned a lot from Mr. Wizard. 17. Children’s programming is bad enough as it is. The purveyors of our commercial riches do not want our children learning restraint, moderation, good judgment, or morality. With those skills...