Common sense Category
Reign of error
Posted on November 13, 2015 26 Comments
Watch out. I am going to opine here. It seems appropriate for Friday the 13th in November. If this sort of thing makes the hairs on your eyebrows crackle, just tell me what you think of my autumn Valencia pictures. I will not be offended 😀 I don’t want to be negative or simplistic but we […]
Abknoxious
Posted on February 3, 2014 12 Comments
There are so many compelling current news stories that grab my attention that I have to filter out what I read so I am not overwhelmed. That is largely because they are at base about human behavior, which is after all, my chosen field and my main interest in life. Because I am a psychologist, […]
Creating harmony amid cacophony
Posted on February 1, 2014 7 Comments
I hope you won’t mind if I re-post an e-mail I received from Ralph Nader. This is what courage really looks like. Not capitulation and compromise of one’s core principles just to keep the peace, but true understanding of and compassion for human beings and our planet. Pete Seeger acted and in so doing, he […]
Time is running out
Posted on November 14, 2013 16 Comments
Is this the way our democracy is supposed to work? http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-republicans-rig-the-game-20131111 National Republicans have waged an unrelenting campaign to exploit every weakness and anachronism in our electoral system. Through a combination of hyperpartisan redistricting of the House, unprecedented obstructionism in the Senate and racist voter suppression in the states, today’s GOP has locked in political […]
no Savings grace
Posted on November 4, 2013 5 Comments
Like most opinionated vocal people I have pet peeves. Changing the clock twice a year is one of them. When these changes were six months apart, I didn’t mind them so much. But now that it is almost eight months and four months, I find this practice unsettling. This is likely because I am so […]
Beth Byrnes 
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