“Ask Dr Neuman” Advice Column
Potential problems: for instance, the size of the doorknob. When Trump first began to talk about a great wall to prevent Mexicans from sneaking across our border into Texas, I thought he was speaking figuratively, as in, “The police are a bulwark (wall) against...
Potential problems In the defense of the second amendment, there are a growing number of states that have passed statutes making it lawful to carry weapons in church, in bars, at work, and on college campuses. In fact, there is growing support for the right to carry...
In olden times we always knew who were rooting for when we went to war. We rooted for us. Just like now. But back then we also knew who we were fighting against. We were fighting the Nazis and their friends, the Japanese, known as “the Japs.” Together they were...
Overcoming Discomfort Kim John Un, the ruler of North Korea, has not been seen publicly recently. There has been speculation about the reason. The explanation was finally forthcoming. He has been made uncomfortable by something. There was a moving report today of his...
Restrictions on Voting. There have been attempts to regulate voting in a number of states over a period of a number of years. The principle effort, mostly conducted in Republican controlled states, has been to eliminate fraudulent voting (of which there seems to be...
“Creationist Mathematics.” A long time ago, when I was a psychiatric resident, one of the patients on our ward entertained all the residents by giving a lecture on certain advances in mathematics that he had invented. We sat attentively while he drew on a blackboard...
A few weeks ago most House Republicans refused to extend to the Pope honors offered to other world leaders. According to one of the Republicans, he seemed “too liberal.” Apparently they were responding to remarks he made which could be construed as favoring ordinary...
Should we discourage the practice of executing witches? It has recently been reported in the newspapers that Saudi Arabia has beheaded nineteen criminals, including one person who had been caught practicing sorcery. The Saudis consider sorcery a serious crime and go...
There has been a lot of talk recently about the growing inequality in income between the very rich and everyone else, especially the very poor. Also the very rich have accumulated more money. Their wealth grows from generation to generation, according to Thomas...
Mr. Louie Gohmert, who is a Republican congressman from Texas, spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives recently about the dire situation in Texas resulting from thousands of children streaming into Texas from Mexico unaccompanied by anyone and...
Does that make me credulous or cynical? A formative experience. At the age of fifteen, I had a seemingly inconsequential experience which I have thought about ever since. I was walking with my older brother up Broadway. It was in the days of the Cadillac tailfins....
I suspect my corporation has some strange religious principles. Corporations used to be described as a “legal fiction” which could be treated for certain business purposes as an individual. It had certain rights, including the right to hire and fire employees and to...