by Doc Obvious | Oct 25, 2025 | Obvious Thoughts
What if you walked into work one day, the CEO called a company meeting, and in that meeting, she said sales were slow, the company was facing increased competition, and they needed to make some changes? Sounds like a very familiar setting in America today, right? Now...
by Doc Obvious | Oct 18, 2025 | Obvious Thoughts
I recently visited the Museum of Memory and Tolerance in Mexico City and found the experience moving and eye-opening. The museum has two sections. The “Memory” section documents 20th-century genocides, including the Holocaust, as well as atrocities in Armenia, Rwanda,...
by Doc Obvious | Nov 12, 2024 | Obvious Thoughts
The 2024 election is now behind us, and, needless to say, it didn’t turn out the way many people had hoped. Most of the people who voted for Harris were voting against a candidate who called illegal immigrants “animals,” said he wanted to be dictator for a day,...
by Doc Obvious | Aug 17, 2023 | Obvious Thoughts
It has been an eventful few weeks in the life of your humble blogger. The most significant change is that our oldest is now a college student, so we had just a little bit of work planning, packing and eventually moving a teenager’s life 3 hours away. This shift in all...
by Doc Obvious | Jul 31, 2023 | Obvious Thoughts
Our nation’s history of slavery is on high whitewashing alert. Florida’s new standards for education (a paradox if there ever were one) state that slaves benefitted from gaining useful skills during slavery, while we all know how hard it is to gain useful skills...
by Doc Obvious | Jul 28, 2023 | Obvious Thoughts
Just when I thought the anti-woke crowd couldn’t get any more ridiculous, along comes Barbie. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I’m taking one of my daughters as soon as she gets back from summer camp. My wife went with our younger daughter and other relatives on...
by Doc Obvious | Jul 20, 2023 | Obvious Thoughts
Anti-Semitic incidents have been rising steadily in the past few years, Three of the past 5 years have broken records for the highest incidents of anti-Semitic cases of assault, vandalism, and harassment. From 2021 to 2022 there were 3,697 incidents, a rise of 36%,...
by Doc Obvious | Jul 16, 2023 | Obvious Thoughts
Sanctimonious snowflake-haters are poisoning our politics by attacking and undermining the rights of women and transgender people to do what they want with their bodies and their lives. According to the Human Rights Campaign, as of May 2023, there have been 520...
by Doc Obvious | Jul 12, 2023 | Obvious Thoughts
The anti-woke among us rarely miss an opportunity to reveal themselves as anti-inclusive and anti-empathetic. Anti-wokeness and even anti-diversity sentiments are rising and seeping into the strangest places. If you go just a millimeter down the rabbit hole of social...
by Doc Obvious | Jul 10, 2023 | Obvious Thoughts
The latest heroes of the anti-LGBTQ+, anti-Black History, and anti-people movements are the Moms for Liberty, who are making a lot of noise with their espousal of “protecting kids” from learning or knowing about people who are different than they are. Liberty is...
