Addiction is a Choice

Most talk of addictions as something over which the individual is helpless. Yet how does this explain that so many end their addictions? People quit smoking all the time. People quit alcohol. They quit nail-biting. They even quit heroin and crack cocaine. These are...

Indoctrination of Our Youth

Let’s start off with a few quotations, then a question. In reference to the president’s State of the Union: “Sounds a lot like the things Adolf Hitler used to say.” “Bush is threatening the whole planet.” “[The] U.S. wants to...

Postponing Reality

Let’s face it: Reality can be stressful and can sometimes get very rough. Everyone has an incentive to postpone it. Most of us, however, learn the hard way that postponing reality only makes it far worse than facing it early on. The problem gets more complicated...

An Open Letter to Liberals and Conservatives

Some of you reading this web site think of yourselves as either Liberal or Conservative. You have views of the world based on personal beliefs, and these beliefs lead you to certain political assumptions. I am neither Liberal nor Conservative and I have political...

Defending Colonel Gregory “Pappy” Boyington

According to the University of Washington student government, university alumnus Gregory “Pappy” Boyington is not a person university students should strive to emulate and he should not be honored with a memorial on campus because as a Marine Corps...

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