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On a visit to a Veteran’s Administration clinic

Yesterday I went to visit a Veterans Administration clinic in Orlando. As many of you know, I am a veteran, my grandfather-in-law was a lifer, and our youngest daughter is serving as an officer in Iraq right now. Yep, service is part of our family. But, I digress. I went into the laboratory waiting room and looked around. It was quite a sight, in the absolutely best sense of the word. I saw  veterans,... [Read more]

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On the swine flu and Latinos

The Wikipedia has some interesting data under the article on the Black Death that swept Europe in the Middle Ages. It says: Because fourteenth century healers were at a loss to explain the cause, Europeans turned to astrological forces, earthquakes, and the poisoning of wells by Jews as possible reasons for the plague’s emergence. . . There were many attacks against Jewish communities. In... [Read more]

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More chimpanzee inkblot test

Two days ago, I commented on the flap surrounding the New York Post chimpanzee cartoon. Well, it is still meandering its weary way through the “national” media, like a soap opera that refuses to end. Nevertheless, there is something that we can learn out of all this, as Christians. Part of our family’s missionary training was on the whole subject of perceptions. What does that mean?... [Read more]

Chimpanzee inkblot test

Sometimes a political cartoon, or actually any sort of cartoon, can function as a type of Rorschach inkblot test. That is what we see in a cartoon may reflect our own internal thoughts more than they reflect either anything in the cartoon itself or anything that the author intended. But, sometimes there is actual agreement between various parties on the meaning of a cartoon. Such is the cartoon above,... [Read more]

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Do we love the “other”?

“When we fixate on the racist individual, we’re focused on the least interesting way that race works,” said Phillip Goff, a social psychologist at U.C.L.A. who focuses his research on “racism without racists.” “Most of the way race functions is without the need for racial animus.” That quote comes from the NYT and can be found here. Unfortunately, because... [Read more]