Emotional Embuffination
2020 has been a very divisive year. While this has caused a lot of misery, it also affords us a unique opportunity to look at the psychology of conflict. The “Karen” phenomenon has taken a central position on the 2020 stage. If you aren’t caught up to at least season 2 of 2020, you might […]
After graduating law school I decided to hang my shingle. I opened up my shop and started taking on clients. I kept thinking, “I know this will be hard at first, but one day I’m going to make a lot of money.” It was the narrative everyone had told me. Start your own business and […]
I got home late at night. It had been a long day and it was just a few minutes before bed time. I went to check on our hamster, Humphrey. When I opened his cage, he immediately crawled up a small set of cardboard stairs he had and looked up at me. The look on […]
This video is an exclusive interview with the Corona Virus (COVID-19). The virus has a discussion wherein it explains how happy it is to have people discussing the fact that we are in “uncertain times” or “unprecedented times.”
I was watching television the other day and commercials came on. Everyone was jumping on the COVID advertising bandwagon. Commercial after commercial said either the words, “uncertain” or “uncertainty.” “Unprecedented” was being thrown around to a lesser extent. When I drove to the store to get some essentials, I turned the radio on. Same thing. […]
In February of 2019, Said Mechaout walked up to Stefano Leo and slit his throat with a knife. The two didn’t know each other. Mechaout just found Leo walking up the street. During interrogation, Mechaout admitted to the crime and told police, “I killed Stefano Leo because he seemed like a happy person.” It’s kind […]
When I started working as an attorney in family law, it didn’t take long before I experienced, “the Flip.” I represented a woman. Her ex was physically abusive. It was painfully clear she was telling the truth. We had a recording of her being attacked by her ex, photographs of bruises, and the testimony of […]
In November of 1978 Jim Jones led over 900 people into drinking a cyanide-laced Kool-Aid-like drink. The result was mass suicide. From that event we coined the phrase, “drinking the Kool-Aid.” The expression is relevant to situations in which someone or a group of people are mindlessly devoted to a cause. It’s especially germane when […]
Sei Weng’s Story There is an old Taoist story about a man named, Sei Weng, that has relevance to what’s happening to us today. Sei Weng was a Chinese farmer. He lived with his son. They had a beautiful horse that was the envy of everyone in the village. One day Sei Weng’s son left […]
The other day I was in a gaming store and watched as a patron was virtually yelling at a clerk about how angry he was that people were buying all the toilet paper. “It doesn’t make any sense! Why toilet paper?! Like that’s going to stop them from getting sick!” What caught my attention was […]