I still don’t get it. I’m almost elderly and I still think there are some important subjects about which my culture is completely incorrect. Am I the only one noticing these?

There seems to be general agreement that the world of academe is more ethical and “pure” than that of business.

We view nonprofit organizations as more honest, more transparent, and less likely to play (statistical, deadline, or regulatory interpretation) games than corporate America.

Some power, some time, must have sold us on the idea of comfort food. It makes sense if the discomfort is physical, but it is patently stupid to feed a stressed individual. Odds are their digestive processes have been disordered at least and probably disrupted. And it’s not a good idea to give them alcohol if you’re not feeding them. For goodness sake, take them for a walk, a dance, bowling, anything that will allow them to work it out and through.

We hug our kids backwards. Instead of using our love to hide their eyes from dangers, we should turn them around and face the world with them, guiding them with our words as we guard their backs instead of their fronts.

Art and money don’t mix. It confuses the brain to try mixing them. The days of patronage are over and endowments are an endangered species. It’s time to drop the fantasy that one can work full-time at art. Instead, every citizen should be given a few hours a day to engage in creativity. And every citizen should work for pay or goods a few hours a day as well.

How can it possibly be that victimless crimes are still illegal? It’s well past time to drop the prohibitions against drugs and sex, and instead regulate and tax them like the luxuries they are.

I can’t believe the barbarism of the continuing attacks on female reproductive freedom.

Shall I go on? Okay: one more. I have no argument with people who think the Bible is the only book, contains all truth, and must be followed literally. At least not here, not now. I accept the statistic that tells us many of our citizens believe this way. But everyone knows the Bible was not written in English. How can it be that so few try to learn Aramaic or Koine Greek? I’m not suggesting all believers become Bible scholars, but what does it mean that they don’t even try?