On the evening of November 9th, more than a thousand Penn State college students vehemently protested the firing of their beloved hero, Joe Paterno, the legendary football couch of Penn State, for not reporting to the police in 2002 his knowledge of coach Jerry Sandusky raping...

The Stuttering Foundation of America has proclaimed on its website (www.stutteringhelp.org), "There is no reason to believe that emotional trauma causes stuttering." Similarly, the National Stuttering Association (www.nsastutter.org) has stated: "We do know that stuttering is not caused by emotional problems and is not a 'nervous'...

In a previous blog posted on October 16, 2008, I described how racism in the 2008 presidential campaign is largely the result of a hatred and fear of "the other" that is deeply embedded within the human psyche from birth. "The other" is often an ambiguous stimulus upon him we...

Considering the dire state of the economy, health care, Iraq and global warming after eight years of the Bush administration, the Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, should have had a substantial lead over his Republican adversary, John McCain, from the beginning of the campaign, but didn't. The race has been...