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The GOPs Hidden, Unspoken Big Tent Agenda: We Dont Want No More Niggers in the White House

Fri. Oct. 5th, 2012 | Gary G. Kohls, MD

Anyone who watched the two national political conventions last month couldnt help but be impressed with the nearly total lack of racial diversity at the (Whites Only) Republican National Convention. The large number of racially-diverse delegates at the Democratic National Convention was truly impressive. It should be obvious that white racism will be a huge

And Then They Came for the Gays: Paragraph 175 and the Pink Triangle

Fri. Oct. 19th, 2012 | Gary G. Kohls, MD

The famous poem above was written by the courageous German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller in the years after he was liberated from one of Adolf Hitlers concentration camps. As was the case with most conservative Protestant clergymen and their congregants, Niemoller despised the Weimar democratic r

Two Essays from the Past: On the 10th Anniversary of the Strange Death of Paul Wellstone

Fri. Oct. 26th, 2012 | Gary G. Kohls, MD

October 25th, a week and a half before 2012s election day, is the 10th anniversary of the death of Paul Wellstone. A number of commemorative events occurred during the week, but sadly, the loss of this courageous patriot will soon be forgotten by voters who should care enormously that his death was very likely, ac

The Massacre at Sandy Hook and the Elephant in the Room

Fri. Dec. 28th, 2012 | Gary G. Kohls, MD

Since the most recent American school shooting-of-the-month that occurred on 12-14-12, thousands of aware mental health professionals, psychiatric survivors, and victims of drug-induced violence have been watching and listening in vain for any of the major TV or radio networks to even breathe a single word about the likely possibility that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter (widely identified as having had a very

Now That He Is Safely Dead: Silencing the Voice of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fri. Jan. 11th, 2013 | Gary G. Kohls, MD

Now That He Is Safely Dead Now that he is safely dead let us praise him, build monuments to his glory, sing hosannas to his name. Dead men make such convenient heroes. They cannot rise to challenge the images we would fashion from their lives. And besides, it is easier to build monuments than to make a better world. Carl Wendell Hines