Searching Prejudicial Souls
Protests. Debates. Calls for reform. Soul searching. The Zimmerman/Martin case has ignited many fires–from simplistic objections to the verdict (which given the charge vs. evidence could hardly have turned out any other way) to profound observations by even the nation’s president and others regarding the subtle biases and prejudices that linger. It’s easy for white people or others (Zimmerman is half Peruvian) to wonder why blacks protest at the verdict which came by clear adherence to the law as it related to the facts. It’s easy for black people to grow enraged at the whole system that appears okay on…
How Far Does The LGBT Agenda Go?
The gay marriage juggernaut is winning out. And it’s done so well that opinions across the country are changing astonishingly fast. But I don’t think for a minute that the agenda will stop there. The Los Angeles Times ran an article on why bisexuals are mostly still in the closet. Even gays tend not to favor them: You never know whom they’ll sleep with. Then we see this smiling family. The mom is a bisexual activist. Her husband seems okay with it. I suppose it’s a free country. But then they have their one (yes, one)-year-old son cheering them on…
What We Call News
What is news? Tragedies and scary things usually, because that’s what gets peoples attention. But with billions of people to have things go wrong, what gets reported? The tragedy and bizarre mystery of the Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco has had much headline attention. And it was a big plane. But buried at the bottom of my newspaper’s page 7 was another airplane crash the next day. This one in Alaska. An “air taxi” for people who live in remote places. All ten people on board were killed–five times as many as on the Asiana flight. But it wasn’t…
Small Action, Big Consequence
Have you ever done something that seemed small or insignificant that ended up having a bigger consequence than you had expected, or maybe imagined? Witness the German banker who for whatever reason hadn’t gotten enough sleep and fell asleep “for an instant” at his workstation keyboard. He intended to transfer 62.50 euro to a customer. He ended up transferring €222,222,222.22 (about $293,000,000). Fortunately another colleague spotted the error, and it was corrected. You can probably think of a time when you may have made a seemingly insignificant comment, only to greatly offend someone. Or perhaps you did–or didn’t do–something that…
When Righting a Wrong Creates a Bigger Wrong
Edward Snowden came to the conclusion that the CIA and NSA, for whom he worked, had way too much ability to spy. They can virtually listen in on any phone conversation they like. This is scary. And hardly ethical. So he blew the cover of the entire operation. As egregious as the government’s ability and practice of spying may be, the spy agencies pointed out that with this cover blown, Americans at large are now put at greater risk. And terrorists they might have caught will now be aware of what they didn’t know before and less likely be caught before they…
