"Your advice for individuals dealing with teasting is simplistic, demeaning and an impediment to human moral progress.

"Teasing is definitely a psychological game.

I missed this movie, starring Adam Sandler and the incomparable Jack Nicholson, when it was playing in theaters. Though it won't be available on video/dvd for another month, I got to see it recently not once, but twice, within the same week. My family watched it on Movie on Demand in a hotel while we were on my recent seminar tour. On our flight back home, the scheduled movie was cancelled, and what was shown in it's place? Yes, Anger Management.

I didn't expect to be writing again about money, the main subject of my last newsletter, but I received so many lengthy letters from upset readers that I realized the subject of money needs more attention. The points I had made are so simple but so foreign to our consciousness that many readers just don't get it.

Scientific research is supposed to be objective, but unfortunately this is often a dream. Much research, and certainly that which deals with social issues, has an agenda and is far from objective. A popular field of research for psychologists is violence in entertainment. Most of this research is performed not to determine WHETHER violent entertainment leads to violence in real life.

I am about to embark on what may be my most ambitious project: providing a solution to the age-old problem of anti-Semitism. I've been planning for a while to dedicate a newsletter to teaching minority groups a more effective approach to dealing with racism. It occurred to me, though, that I should not be telling other groups what to do when my own group needs it more than anyone. I have the distinction of belonging to the most hated minority group in the world.

For a decade since Columbine brought the suffering of victims of bullying to the public’s awareness, schools throughout the modern world have been trying ceaselessly to get rid of bullying. At best, there has been no improvement. More often, people complain that bullying is becoming a more serious problem. Every state and country that has passed school anti-bully laws is experiencing an intensification of bullying. Why? Shouldn’t bullying be going down after a decade of effort?