‘Nuf said, Bonnie is the best! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-Mh9Qeinw

The long-running ‘disagreement’ between Ukraine and Russia can be explained in many ways, not the least being that they were fundamentally the main economic bookends of the former Soviet Union.  Moreover, culturally they are mirrors of one another.  Remember, Russia annexed Crimea back in 2017, well in advance of the conflict of 2022, but with Ukraine under a new, younger president 2022, Ukraine was not going to take more aggression from Russia.  Based on Dr. Geert Hofstede’s Six Dimensions of cultural dimensions theory shows just how mirrored the two countries are on the dimensions – power distance, individualism vs collectivism, […]

From Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-taking_theory Role-taking theory (or social perspective taking) is the social-psychological concept that one of the most important factors in facilitating social cognition in children is the growing ability to understand others’ feelings and perspectives, an ability that emerges as a result of general cognitive growth.[1] Part of this process requires that children come to realize that others’ views may differ from their own.[2] Role-taking ability involves understanding the cognitive and affective (i.e. relating to moods, emotions, and attitudes) aspects of another person’s point of view, and differs from perceptual perspective taking, which is the ability to recognize another person’s visual point of view of the environment.[2] Furthermore, albeit some mixed evidence on the […]

Almost as the usual annual surprise… Las Vegas Gay Pride once again almost almost almost passed by unacknowledged.  Unlike last year (remember I only learned of the festival event THE DAY OF IT while I was out doing something else.   So, beelined it over last year.  This year I was given three days’ notice so a lifetime in gay world.  Needless to say, here I am at the venerable Craig’s Ranch Regional Park in North Las Vegas; with my newly adopted spirit of POSTIVITY I am high as a lie and smiling from ear to ear 👂