Religion for many is like eating Chinese food, one from Column A and 2 from Column B or even better a personalized combination platter. And it works for some of them because as Christians they can choose to exclude the notion of Hell; they can vote for a woman’s right…

It sounds corny, right? What’s empathy got to do with it? Many of us are sure that we need stricter gun laws while many other people on the right are accusing those crying tears of rage of merely posturing, for any political gains to be had in the process. …

There are lots of opinions about abortion, and lots of passion. The one thing I rarely hear about, though, is the sacredness of human life after pregnancy is over. …

When I was very young, it was not uncommon for either of my parents to say I was “spoiled”. I sometimes helplessly retaliated: “Well, you spoiled me!” but it was never satisfying to me internally or even believable, even to myself. I was given a lot of things and let’s…

I am not immune. Putin is bad, perhaps crazy, he is a dictator who is presently egregiously aiming to break the will of Ukraine through armed attacks that are killing civilians and the most vulnerable of them, including pregnant mothers. He is trying to destroy the possibility of Ukraine becoming…

No this is not SNL material — at least not yet — though they’re free to use it — that is while this particular freedom might still be in place, you know the freedom of speech. Before I go deeper, let me say I recognize that a vast part of…

I love Whoopi Goldberg, period. She should not be suspended by ABC because of an opinion that I feel is simply a mistake. She felt Nazism was a set of human crimes and she was looking at it as a humanist. I get it and in a fundamental way I…

No, I didn’t think so. Okay I’ll tell you. It is an international committee on human rights that will ask detainees in Guantanamo if they are being treated well. So far the only nation to veto the proceedings, appears to be the United States. Perhaps what makes a headline a…