In relation to her political patron, Oca Malapitan, for example, Maricel was adamant that theirs was a purely transactional relationship. She did not feel any debt to Oca. At other times, she had incurred

The push to curtail corporal punishment (disciplining children) reminds me of the push to curtail gun rights in that its advocates love to rely on half-truths and cherry-picked data. You've probably heard

I think that the only way that people make political correctness palatable and make it seem like a PC world wouldn't also be one devoid of joy and laughter is to try to conflate political correctness with

There's a lot of noise in certain places being made over certain people (or person, I won't name names) who have made some pretty bad decisions regarding how they "promote" themselves and hitchhiking

While a formal fallacy is an error in the structure of an argument, an informal fallacy tends to avoid the matter at hand entirely, demonstrating disregard for both your own position and that of those

In the last few days, from multiple directions, I have heard voices both public and private lay down the groundwork for violence. While those voices may use the fig-leaf defense that they didn't actually

I understand why the U.S. government recently passed a law to show some support for the people of Hong Kong. But I am scared because the U.S. government chose to criticize China in such a public and direct

Yesterday in Hong Kong, there was one of the biggest rally against the extradition law. One of the things to call my eye was that aside the big rally there was teenagers taken care of the garbage, so the

Civility and Respect Yes, its been a while since I published a newsletter.

Friends and family are a growing source of online risk. Online abuse can cause emotional, psychological and even physical pain. Online harassment is often personal. Read full article here: Microsoft says

Having opinions that Jack doesn't like gets you banned off twitter, but politicians telling private citizens to kill themselves is ok. #KevinParker #CandiceGiove #GOPAide #ParkingViolation #Civility Resign:

Changing the Political Conversation

The Church has stood here for twenty centuries. For two thousand years it has read and sung from the same bible, and it has told the societies that have listened to it the same thing. It has consistently

More often that not when people complain about the distribution of stake, they seem to forget a the fact that as much as the system is not ideal, by any measure, they've also had a part to play on it.

For decades politicians in America have effectively used identity politics as a political strategy, but there is something seismic happening about which most of the corporate media isn't reporting.

As a woman, how do you feel when almost every day the news proclaims yet another man has publically tumbled from his position due to his alleged ill-treatment of women? Are you raising your fist feeling

I have called for civility in the past but today I'd like to clarify what I meant by that. My claim is that WHEN YOU ARE ON SOCIAL MEDIA, you should strive to be polite no matter what others do. Do not

You can get a good education not only in your family or at school, but also... in yourself. You just need to know what real education is. I do not undertake to give lessons of good manners, as he does

Wed Jun 27 22:11:05 +0000 2018 @alyssa.milano tweeted.RT @Weinsteinlaw: Civility in politics is important, but not nearly as important as reproductive rights, access to healthcare, marriage eq… time I