I was watching the show Inside Washington on PBS today when a panelist and Washington Post editor, Colby King, said "I'd punch them out" refering to protestors at the funerals of dead soldiers.

There is a limitation on free speech one of which is "fighting words" - the type of language Mr. King employed.

I have BDs, which is why I'm one this site, and have a reduced ability to distinguish between hyperbole and real threat especially by supervisors in employment.  When I reque... Read More

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How many synapse are there in the human brain?

I don't know - I'm not a brain specialist. I had to get my dictionary out just to see how to spell the word. But isn't it a bit like asking how many stars are in the sky? 

Things die, things move, or get moved, outside elements effect it, external pressures make things explode, parts shine, other parts fade away, there are lots of things we can't explain.... Am I talking about the sky or the brain?  They are alo... Read More

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As regards my previous blog about the writer who self annihilated this past weekend.

Also mentioned in several reports about this incident, is the fact that this guy was suffering from "clinical depression". As if that somehow quantifies his abuse, reaction to it, or resulting self annihilation.

As alot of us here already know- having depression does not, in and of itself automatically render the sufferer as less adequate, less intelligent, nor less able to perform in the workpl... Read More

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i was disheartened this AM to awake to the news that a writer for VQR- was bullied to the point of suicide. i caught it on NBC's Today show. They showed where this poor guy had made seventeen calls to HR in just the week previous to giving up. His "boss" had harangued this poor guy from day one- and the real shame was in the fact that the "boss" was obviously twenty years junior to the writer. This guys fellow coworkers knew what was going on, but instead of staging a revolt: they just kinda... Read More

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i was appalled to hear about the gang rape of a fifteen year old last week in california. We'll have to make room for one more casualty to a world gone awry.

Our world is becoming full of bullies. Bullies at school, Bullies in the workplace, Bullies in Congress. Bullies are everywhere. Hell i've even seen bullies in the checkout at the grocery store. One of us had stated in a previous blog about the end of days and how the demons will cover the earth. i too, fear that time has com... Read More

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