Having an opinion can help others

On the nineteenth of August, I was honored to be seated as a panelist for the "Diversity of Thought" forum sponsored by the Social Justice Task Force (SJTF).

In retrospect this discussion has turned out to be one of the most educational two-hour periods of my life. I learned the extreme "right" is as paranoid about the "thought police" as the extreme "left" and that having no opinion on a subject is still an opinion.

The latter was a novel idea for me being the type of person who, as many of my detractors would probably agree, feels he needs to have an opinion on everything, even if I know nothing about it.