by Ron Barak | Nov 19, 2015
Halloween costumes showing off sombreros are . . . “culturally inappropriate.” Or wearing pirate eye patches . . . “insensitive” to those who are sight challenged. (Note, that’s sight challenged and not sight impaired or blind). Imagine that, guys. Wait a minute....
by Ron Barak | Nov 16, 2015
Stick with me, this is not going to be a blog about the environment—perhaps a little bit about the political landscape, but not the physical one. The prevailing view is that “the” saying is “Too close to the trees to see the forest,” meaning that one bogged down in...
by Ron Barak | Nov 15, 2015
Making a mistake is not the end of the world. We all make them. What is the end of the world is when we don’t learn from the ones we make so that we don’t repeat them. That’s what the GOP is doing. Seemingly not learning a thing from the errors it made leading...
by Ron Barak | Nov 5, 2015
“I know it when I see it,” a colloquial expression by which a speaker attempts to categorize an observable fact or event although the category is subjective and lacks clearly defined parameters. The phrase was made famous in 1964 when used by U.S. Supreme Court...
by Ron Barak | Nov 3, 2015
Have you forgotten the “great crash” of 2008? Certainly those who have not had a real job ever since have not. Apparently, our political “leaders” have. Not the only cause of the 2008 crash, financial deregulation certainly ranks right up there. Left more and more to...
