A Much Needed Break

And we’re back… OK, so I know I’ve been offline for the last couple of weeks, and am just now starting to catch up on emails and other things from around the old Internets. If you’ve been waiting on some comment from me or response to something, it’s coming. The wife and I were off…

Why Not Deal With It Now?

I was interested in a post by Cecil Murphy over on the 1in6 website, and as I was reading it, I was saddened by the first paragraph. Recently, I read an in-progress master’s thesis on male sexual abuse. The writer’s research said that most men don’t deal with their abuse until they’re middle-aged—late 30s to…

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Doesn’t Fit the Narrative

I’ve blogged before about confirmation bias, our brains unique ability to absorb information that fits with our own world view, and ignore information that does not. In news and political circles that is sometimes referred to as the narrative of the story. You look for facts that fit the narrative, and unfortunately, unless you’re careful…