This is the first of three posts about entitlement: Today – “Entitlement(s): Attitude and policy” 04/26 – “How I became homeless” ...

Bookmarks: A gun control hypocrite • “Enhanced interrogation” • Bail reform measure moves forward • Cleaning up McDonald’s • ...

Bookmarks: Socialization technique helps in academic achievement, trial study finds Caitlyn Virts, Relisha Tenau Rudd amber alerts Paul...

Bookmarks: McDonald’s commercials have changed The crazies and the stupids Creation vs. the Big Bang? Julius Henson in the news again...

‘Case of sudden death’ in violence-torn C. Africa The only hell of concern to me is the living hell, in this life, here and now, that...

In the process of “recycling” old posts on Wednesdays, I am now coming upon a number of posts with which I’m not completely comfortable....

Links within this post: Rat empathy Secret weapon Marriage a “luxury good?” Hero of cancer research ———— ♦ ———— Rodent empathy is...

Prayer for myself often takes the form of imagining myself climbing up a ladder out of a pit, the pit being my current circumstances of...

Prayer for myself often takes the form of imagining myself climbing up a ladder out of a pit, the pit being my current circumstances of...

… which shall here remain nameless, for reason that I also have harsh criticisms and don’t need any reader, however well-intentioned, to...

(A message I sent family on 26 April 2006.) Disease, or sin? To the best of my knowledge, the “disease theory of alcoholism” began with...

(Originally published 09/28/13 at Trojan Horse Productions .) Prayer for myself often takes the form of imagining myself climbing up a...

(Originally published 09/28/13 at Trojan Horse Productions .) (Saying “part 1” just in case. There may or may not be a part 2, etc., in...

(Originally published 08/14/13 at Trojan Horse Productions .) Prayer for myself often takes the form of imagining myself climbing up a...

(Originally published 06/06/13 at Trojan Horse Productions .) This has been a very heavy day, and there’s a lot here. For the moment, at...

At work on Tuesday 05/08/12, the radio station they had on the PA played Genesis’ “Giving it all away.” People see things different ways...

(Originally published 08/11/12 at Trojan Horse Productions .) If you go into a men’s room and see that someone’s taken his backpack and...

Proverbs 30:15: “The leech has two daughters. Their names are ‘Gimme’ and ‘Gimme.’” ———— ♦ ———— Saturday 05/12/12, 3:00 p.m. — I tired...

City considers crackdown on panhandling Baltimore has another fit of panhandler anxiety For years, I had the mantra: “Most panhandlers aren’t homeless, and most homeless people don’t panhandle.” Now I have many acquaintances who do one or the other. Given recent instability in my support system, I myself may soon become one who does both. My experience is much informed by what I’ve seen at the McDonald’s I frequent at Baltimore and Light Streets, where some people seem to pan

(Originally published 09/18/2012 at Trojan Horse Productions. ) Romney: Obama voters ‘believe they are victims’ First, let me say I...