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What a Load of Crap! Parenting & Crazy Accountability

A parent is arrested for leaving an eleven year-old in the car while she went shopping. Another parent is arrested for allowing her nine year-old to in the park by herself, a park where there were other kids and kid-friendly adults around. An eight year-old kid told his father he was ta...

 

 

On Political Correctness

Last week on my radio show, I talked about ending sexual violence, and rape being an act of power, not sex. We have to take a look at what's amiss in our world specifically in the United States, where 52% of women report experiencing violence at some point in their life.  &...

 

 

Ending Sexual Violence

Recently, Angelina Jolie—actress, UN Ambassador, and all-around Superwoman—was the keynote speaker of the four-day Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, hosted by the UK government.   “It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflic...

 

 

Behind the Curtain: Religion, Hypocrisy & Politics

Our wise founding fathers separated church and state. Fun fact, they weren't all Christian: “Franklin and Jefferson were Deist, Washington harbored a pantheistic sense of providential destiny, John Adams began a Congregationalist and ended a Unitarian and Hamilton a lukewarm A...

 

 

July 4th: 10 Tips to Creating a Better Government

There are a few things that make July 4th special. As you can see in this video, I'm all dressed up in my red, white, and blue. It is the day our nation was born, and it's the day that I was born! So, for me, it's kind of a double-header. Those who know me have heard me say:...

 

 

What a Load of Crap: Abusing Children is Better Than Exposure to Gay Parents, Really?

Based on cultural and religious beliefs, a couple took umbrage because their children were adopted by a gay couple, after being left alone and physically abused by their birth parents. They cited their Catholic beliefs and Slovak Roma origin as the reason to try to block the adoption. T...

 

 

What a Load of Crap: Abused Mother Accused of Betrayal

Here's the scoop: a mother of adult children is physically abused by them. They are hateful towards her; they try poisoning her, violate her, and when she fights back, fighting for her own life, she is portrayed as a mother betraying her children. They battered her, bruised her, for...

 

 

What a Load of Crap! Healthcare Costs

Let's start with some facts and figures from various sources, and extrapolate later. First, from vox.com: Americans pay far more for pharmaceutical and medical tests than people do in countries where a single agency negotiates prices. Examples (on average): ...

 

 

Behind the Curtain: One Bad Choice Begets a Dozen

The first bad choice was having a child. Rather than point the blame at the child who is unhealthy, oversized, or undereducated, let's own up to the first bad choice we made. Either we weren't ready, didn't plan on having a child, or had a baby because of social, cultural, o...

 

 

What a Load of Crap! Test Scores & the Failure of the American Education System

Recently, a national scorecard was released to measure the education levels of twelfth graders. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 26% of students score at a proficient or high level in Math (up from 2005 but unchanged since 2009), and a 38% proficient or high...

 

 

Marriage Isn't Meant to be Manicured

It felt like the entire world was rocked by the news of George Clooney, America's Ultimate Bachelor, getting engaged. One piece in particular made me feel the need to weigh in on the subject. Clooney has said time and time again that he won't get married, or that he wasn't g...

 

 

Famous People with ADHD: Are You One Waiting to Happen?

            I tend to get ideas for blog topics from the internet or magazines, basing things on current events, but today I'm going to focus on something different—my latest book, Famous People with ADHD: Are You One Waiting to Happen? The book w...

 

 

ADHD Plus...Plus...Plus

This was recently on ADDitude Magazine and I couldn’t resist the urge to make a comment or two and maybe, just maybe, a few different insights.  Go figure!     ADHD Plus: 10 Conditions That May Show Up with Attention Deficit   Here are the 1...

 

 

Sterlizing Women

Outside The Box: Should Unfit Parents Be Allowed to Continue to Procreate?   This week I had two different items came across my attention around this issue of sterilizing unfit parents. One was a report about how over 150 women, in prison in California, who were sterilized ...

 

 

Conscious Uncoupling vs Divorce

            Gwyneth Paltrow was recently praised—as well as criticized—when she announced that she and Chris Martin were not divorcing; they were consciously uncoupling. Rants about her need to be different, or somehow b...

 

 

Bot Journalism: Is It Better for the Country?

            Recently, I read an article about how an automated program reported the Los Angeles earthquake. The article was posted on the Los Angeles Times' website, three minutes after the quake occurred. William Falk of The Week asks, will journalists...

 

 

Inconsistent Christianity

..from the popular What a Load of Crap segment on The Dr. Kevin Show.   Let’s get this right out in the open: I DO NOT THINK every word the bible said is the literal word of God or anyone else.  I DO NOT IDENTIFY as someone who thinks the only way to GOD is throu...

 

 

Exclusive vs. Inclusive Communities

            Right or wrong, I look to people who sought out and won positions of power and authority to be good role models. In fact, I have long thought that we should have a role model clause. It might be difficult to craft, but some aspects of it are no ...

 

 

What a Load of Crap! Corporate Welfare

            Boeing reaped a profit of 3.9 billion (or so), dropped its effective tax rate from 34% to 26% (though profits were up), and received a 20% increase in pay out per shares[1]. In 2013, Boeing Co. CEO James McNerney received a 20% pay raise and mad...

 

 

What a Load of Crap! Everyday Child Abuse

          Today's kids are less fit, but everyone is celebrating because childhood obesity is down. In the last decade, obesity in children age 2-5 is down 43%. But let's not launch the parade yet.          ...