Responsibility Category
Till death (all of) us do part
Posted on March 23, 2014 32 Comments
This is what I would consider a ‘think piece’ and it is still a thinking-in-progress, really my mind working out loud, so please indulge me as I spin this. I have the rare opportunity to be forced out of my comfortable niche and into a foreign environment, little different from the one that Margaret […]
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, […]
Neither ruthful nor …
Posted on January 30, 2014 14 Comments
… veracious. After we listened to Obama’s SOTU, I forced myself to sit through one of the multifarious opposing “responses”. Geoffrey walked the dog, unable to stomach what followed. It was no response at all, of course. Clearly they write this flummery without acknowledging what the President actually said, even though I am fairly sure […]
Thought proof
Posted on December 8, 2013 30 Comments
This past week CNN has been airing a special program about three people who apparently died and were brought back to life. All three had experiences of an afterlife that they viewed as being heaven. In all three cases, the physical death was for an extended period of time and they had similar experiences of […]
Behind the surface
Posted on November 15, 2013 18 Comments
In Plato’s Republic, Socrates suggests that looking merely at the surface of things as most of us do in our daily lives, will not lead us to understand the phenomena that underpin the workings of the world. While this is not welcome news, it actually explains why we are so easily misled by people with […]
Beth Byrnes 
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