Category Archives: Values

Our Obligation to Study Evil

By | March 17, 2024

[March 17, 2024]   In an interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson, Abigail Shrier discussed the challenges of understanding evil and how evil masquerades as benevolence while manipulating trust, truth, and morality (see the full interview here).  This is why we must study evil. The foremost challenge to figuring out evil is that we are given a false view, making… Read More »

Happy Henry, the Donkey

By | March 13, 2024

[March 13, 2024]  Today, I’ll highlight a memorable and happy event I found on social media (link here, 45 seconds) @FurryTails.  The video begins with the owner of a donkey named Henry being called by her.  “Hi, Henry!”  Then you hear the donkey baying in the distance as the donkey comes running to her. Humans and other animals… Read More »

Letters to My Granddaughter, No. 59

By | March 9, 2024

[March 9, 2024]  The bayou water was like glass, not a ripple, nothing moving except our aluminum flat-bottom jon boat as it slowly glided along with its silent electric motor.  It was also dark out, black as ink.  I held the flashlight.  Dad navigated the boat.  Earlier that day, Dad said matter-of-factly, “Hey Douglas, let’s go gigging.”  I… Read More »

Banning Iconic WWII Kissing Photo

By | March 8, 2024

[March 8, 2024]  RimaAnn Nelson,1 the Assistant Under Secretary for Health Operation at the Department of Veterans Affairs, distributed a memo calling for the banning of an iconic WWII photo of a U.S. Navy sailor kissing a woman in Times Square.  My old, grisly, tough-as-nails Vietnam Veteran friend says, “Welcome to Woke America.” “To foster a more trauma-informed… Read More »

Military Disarmament is a “Moral Obligation”

By | March 6, 2024

[March 6, 2024]  Word from Roman Catholic Pope Francis this past Sunday that military disarmament is not optional but a “moral obligation” for all countries.  Earlier, the Pope suggested that if we are serious about world peace, the solution is to “ban all weapons.” “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor… Read More »