I still think it’s fair to say that most Americans don’t have the stomach to round up Jewish people like it’s 1930s Germany. However, there are a lot of white Christians that want to eliminate the Jewish people. In Charlottesville, they marched with torches shouting Jews will not replace us…

A Medium writer said Evangelical Christians were only about 4% racist. Really? He demanded statistics from me. An aside: I used to be polite. My liberal friends at the Dems told me that I had to be because Evangelical Christians had deeply religious beliefs. I was skeptical at the time…

I have friends and family from New York City and friends and family from Southeast Alaska. These places are approximately 3,810 miles apart, but they're the same place, and the Alaskans and New Yorkers are the same people, even if they believe they're worlds apart. The Can you pick me…

Health Insurance — Coverage I selected a new healthcare plan this year. I read my plan documents closely in making my decision. Then, I made a mistake. I used my health insurance for my yearly labs; blood work my doctor orders every year. The plan documents indicated I was in…

I didn't intend to pick on Tennessee when I wrote these more realistic Hallmark Christmas stories. The post came out that way because the stories I read, prompting my comments, came out of Tennessee, violence against an interracial couple, and inhumane treatment of homeless people. One might wonder what's in…

Hollywood does it. Publishing does it. Sellers of products and services do it. Self-help gurus do it. Politicians do it. They use a three-act narrative structure to sell products and ideas. And it’s as old as Greek dramas. Three-Act Structure or Greek Tragedy turned Modern American Tragedy Aristotle taught that…

And How It Costs Patients a Lot of Money — UPDATE: I don’t use BCBS of IL anymore, and I hoped my new insurer gave the correct network physician information, but they don’t. I used their list for my particular plan to find a doctor in the network, only to learn that the doctor who was the top pick on…

An American Story Groups of wealthy and powerful stakeholders caused the 2008 bank implosion. If current bank failures follow the script, look for the stakeholders. Sad History of the 2008 Crash Many different businesses and governments participated in the 2008 crash, and it took decades to create the perfect storm. …

It will work because it always does. — I think the SVC collapse may have been engineered. If not, at the very least, the fanfare around it is being manipulated to tank the economy and put an extremist right-wing Republican, likely DeSantis, in the White House. As usual, Democrats will do what they do best, take the bait…