Knowledge Is Necessity

The biggest problem with the denizens of Bullshit Mountain, is they act like their shit don't stink. If they have success, "they...

Last week I posted why you can’t reason with Republicans . This has to do with the “smart idiot effect,” laid out in Chris Mooney’s illu...

Two years ago, I posted a piece here, Is Republicanism the New Stupid? The short answer, I concluded, is yes. The long answer is mo...

In honor of World Suicide Prevention Day ... Eight years ago, I was facilitating a DBSA support group in Princeton, NJ. In walked Kevin,...

Book III in the series ... In the land of Ar, on the eve of day of the Festival of the Indecisive Moon of Indeterminate Phase, Fort ...

I recently returned from three weeks off the grid. Four days of it was spent sharing a tent with my special someone at a didgeridoo festiva...

Above, McMan Central, off the grid. Below, surrounding evergreens, near Mt Shasta. Below, water close-up, near Mt Shasta. Below, tw...

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. – Joh...

I’m taking a brief time-out from not posting any pieces here to briefly comment on something I just read by Tom Wootton on Psychology Toda...

This is the fifth in our series of pieces dealing with Fuller Torrey’s response to Robert Whitaker’s 2010 “Anatomy of an Epidemic.” I’m s...