Why Are Some People Born

As The National Football League And Other Pro Sports Increasingly Reckon With The Early Dementia, Mental Health Issues, Suicides And Even Criminal Behavior Of Former Players, The Risk Of What's Known As Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (cte), Is Becoming Clear.

Well, I Think Of The Folks Who Are The Climate Deniers As The Flat Earthers And The People Who Say The Moon Landings Never Happened.

Your Parents Leave You Too Soon And Your Kids And Spouse Come Along Late, But Your Siblings Know You When You Are In Your Most Inchoate Form.

We Are All Born With An Innate Understanding Of Interpersonal Equity - The Idea That If You Lend Me Your Rake Today, I'll Respond In Kind When You Come To Borrow My Shovel Tomorrow. Or Nearly All Of Us Are Born With That. Psychopaths Aren't.

There May Be No More-radioactive Term In The English Language Than What We Now Almost Always Refer To As The 'n-word' - Itself A Coy Means Of Linguistic Sidestepping That Is A Sign Of How Perilous It Is To Utter The Thing In Full, Even In Conversations About Language.