John Burkholder

A acquaintance of mine is in fear of all of the hate being spread in the world. It has come to the point that she fears telling anyone which religion she follows. She wants to know how to help everyone turn hate into love and acceptance. I thought about tweeting back, but I don’t think that amount of characters can do my response justice.  Here we go. All of this hate and fear monger if is based on ignorance. Our education systems have trained children based on where they live, beliefs systems (even in public schools), and failed family systems. A failed system where some schools are not allowed to teach true science of climate change, evolution, and anthropology. A system that would avoid teaching sex education and healthy relationships. A system that lacks in teaching how to live and thrive in diverse society. Religions that want to inject those beliefs into schools to provide a skewed view of life where treating people different than you as “evil” instead of displaying love to

Every day i am hit by more and more spam emails at work. Many are from actual technology firms that just want to get into the door. I get it. You want new clients. But do you think that by adding to my mountain of emails your one company or event, that you will just be there, reconsider. It is my junk mail. I will click that unsubscribe button fast. If you don't have an unsubscribe, you are added to the black hole I call the junk mail filter. Recently though, I received an email from a vendor in Dulles, VA that added a little something to their email that made me laugh. First was a link to their privacy policy . It basically says they "Collecting very specific, relevant data is a necessary part of us being able to provide you with the products and services you purchase from us. It also enables us to answer your inquiries and provide you with the information you request." This interestingly enough has nothing to do with me because I am not a customer...nor will I ever