This morning, so called “Black Friday,” the following quote was forwarded to me: “Only in America would people kick and claw the shit out of each other over cheap merchandise only hours after being thankful for what they already have.  We need to add a companion holiday.  Thanksgiving … and Morehaving.  Oh, wait.  That’s Christmas.” […]

I have recently come to the realization that something which I had been taught to believe without questioning, and to which I had subsequently held without any evidence of its veracity other than what I had been told, should no longer be assumed to be true. And I am now amazed that an intelligent person […]