We Are Burning Corrupting Descartes, we live, therefore we burn, for life is very much a process of combustion to our ultimate consumption. We burn at more or less, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, with the cooler metabolism of salmon flaring and extinguishing quickly at the end. All living creatures burn at…

“There are two kinds of people in this world, those who think there are two kinds of people in this world and those who know better.” Tom Robbins Reframing American ideological orientations with empirical data is fraught with resistance with the false dichotomy, “Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum” “liberal/conservative” two-party…

The medical-industrial complex largely conforms to other forms of inter-institutional relationships like the military-industrial, security-industrial and higher education-industrial complexes. They are called complexes because they are indeed quite complex in terms of the number of stakeholder parts concentrated within the corporate side of the array. …

Scholarly research papers such as “Religion as a Resource for Positive Youth Development: Religion, Social Capital, and Moral Outcomes”, published in the journal, Developmental Psychology in 2004 tend to be pure apologia. Except for defining “religion” as being established Christian churches, “social capital” as conforming to the norms of one’s…