Category: Social Issues

September 2020 How many times have you clicked on a button that says “I have read and accept the terms of use that accompanies this product or service”? How many times were you telling the truth? I recently skimmed what I think was five thousand words (about 15 typed pages), in flyspeck gothic, that Bank…

September 2020 Any time you have a group of people — whether it’s a family, a club, a sport, an association, a city, a state, a country, or even a planet — you have to answer this question: How do we decide how we decide? Making decisions is tough enough when we make them just…

April, 2020 Part of me thinks I’m nuts to bring up anything to do with sex work in the middle of the #metoo movement. The stories of sexual harassment, almost all of them involving men molesting women, are disgusting. Trafficking, forcing women to service men, and pimping are also abhorrent. Women are rightly outraged. But…

January 2020 Back in the 50s, my father used to say that the difference between a stock broker and a bookie was that a bookie knew he was a crook. His point was that a stock broker and a bookie both sell gambling services, but for some reason, society had decided that a bookie was…