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Aug 25

Pondering Donald Trump

I have been puzzling for years over the motivation behind Donald Trump’s actions. Why would anyone act so dreadfully against his own country, threaten its survival as a nation, and undermine the wellbeing of its citizens? In most of the settings in which I have worked during my career as…

Trump

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Pondering Donald Trump
Pondering Donald Trump
Trump

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Jul 26

Review of Mad Honey: A Novel by Jody Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

Review of Mad Honey: A Novel by Jody Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan I am currently working on a writing project to do with transgender issues. A friend suggested this book to me. I started reading it that night and just finished it. The book is about a transgender person but about much more as well. The story gives very good insight into…

Book Review

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Book Review

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Jun 17

Exploring and Understanding Human Sexuality

Image courtesy of Pixabay My experience has been that people often violently hate or reject what they don’t understand or what makes them feel threatened or even uncomfortable. I would like to offer some clarity about understanding human sexuality and its variations. How many people choose their sexual identity or…

Exploring

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Exploring and Understanding Human Sexuality
Exploring and Understanding Human Sexuality
Exploring

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Jun 10

Abortion and Sensibility

Factions among our population appear obsessed with abortion. At least no one is calling for the death of those receiving or performing abortions as in some other countries. The Guttmacher Institute (guttmacher.org) offers the following statistics: In the United States, there were 930,000 abortions in 2020. By contrast, there were…

Abortion

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Abortion and Sensibility
Abortion and Sensibility
Abortion

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May 30

Recognizing Paths to Suicide

Image courtesy of Pixabay The number of suicides in this country is higher than the number of murders. We do not hear as much about them as we do about murders. Suicide is generally a private affair and not brought to the attention of the media. There is no one…

Suicide

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Recognizing Paths to Suicide
Recognizing Paths to Suicide
Suicide

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May 26

Understanding Mass Murder

Image courtesy of Pixabay I have been puzzling about the constant and increasing rash of mass shootings over the past few years. A few issues contributing to this occurred to me. Most obvious is the flood of weapons of mass destruction in our country. These weapons are designed to kill…

Understanding

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Understanding Mass Murder
Understanding Mass Murder
Understanding

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May 17

Questioning Violence

Image courtesy of Pixabay Ridding the country of the scourge of mass shootings has so far remained a desperate wish for our society. Yet we are not working together to make it happen. We would welcome solutions but have not yet understood the problem, particularly with regard to motivation of…

Bullets

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Questioning Violence
Questioning Violence
Bullets

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Apr 15

The End of Humanity

Mark O’Connell wrote an article in the New York Review of Books called Hastening the End. His article was a review of Adam Kirsch’s book, The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us. The review starts with the question, “If humanity were to disappear from the earth, what would…

Earth

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The End of Humanity
The End of Humanity
Earth

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Mar 30

What Are Friends For?

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~Robert Brault~ I was thinking the other day that we tend to take friends for granted. …

Friends

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What Are Friends For?
What Are Friends For?
Friends

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Mar 26

Woke, Asleep or Clueless?

Manny Otike recently wrote an article in Democracy Guardian, GOP’s Antiwoke Jihad is Lazy Politicking. Republicans of an antagonistic bent have taken to casting anyone with liberal leanings into their imagined barrel of idiots, worshiping “wokism” as they they do with adherents of Critical Race Theory. Let’s make sure we…

Woke

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Woke

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Joseph Langen

Joseph Langen

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I am a retired psychologist with 35 years of professional experience. My writing is described at www.slidingotter.com.

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