Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
The President of the United States said the Iran War would last four to five weeks a month ago. While he will no doubt equivocate about the timeframe if the war lasts longer than five weeks, we all hope it ends as soon as possible. As Mark Twain is reported to have said, “history doesn’t…
The most recent polls show that around 40% of adult Americans approve of the Trump administration’s performance. Broken down by party, 4% of Democrats approve, while a surprising 85% of Republicans continue to stand by their man in March 2026. This demonstrates fairly conclusively that the politics of division started about 20 years ago have…
The veracity of the 47th President of the United States is unprecedented. The Americans who voted for him obviously accept him, despite his inability to tell the truth. After over a year in office, the question arises: Will these voters accept his flood of broken promises? All politicians tell lies and break promises; however, the…
One of Elon Musk’s brilliant true believers was fired about a month ago. Did he make a big mistake? Did he blow up a rocket? Was he the designer of Elon’s Cybertruck? Was he the primary point of contact between Elon and President Trump? Why was he fired? Sulaiman Ghori was fired because he was…
This video focuses on the great similarities between the two brothers, but politics divides and conquers their families. Interestingly, these two brothers think and behave similarly. They have similar values and responses to political and economic events. However, since the choices in American politics are largely binary, it is easy for two very similar brothers…
This short video is the last in a series about how Americans react to obvious, provable deception, lies, and gaslighting by politicians and others. This video summarizes the many mind games we all play on others and ourselves. While these games are hardwired into our brains, they can become debilitating and ruinous if we, individually…
The mind games we all play that distort reality are almost limitless. While many of the most prominent mind games have been discussed in previous videos, this one contains a short list of the minor games. These deceptive games that we play on others and ourselves are not mutually exclusive. Most reinforce one or several…
This video explores how easy it is for people to act in roles and follow scripts. This is an easy way for a person’s perception of the world to be shaped. An actor in a drama can play a villain in a movie but be the nicest person in real life. The opposite can also…
This short video is the sixth in a series of videos about how Americans react to obvious, provable deception, lies, and gaslighting by politicians. The quotation attributed to the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan was “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” This belief might have been false…
Although we normally associate “Ruh Roh” with the cartoon series Scooby-Doo, the dog on The Jetsons was the first to utter this famous phrase of surprise. While many Democrats said or thought “ruh roh” when Biden initially announced he would run for a second term, many Trump soybean farmers in the Midwest are now quietly…