A recent event reminded me that meanness comes in various forms, leading to differences in how best to cope with it. While biking to work in winter weather, I made a quick decision to ride on the ...

Peers get into doing to peers what they feel they must to secure themselves, at times resorting to social meanness to gain and/or retain their peer status in the group. We can categorize this ...

For reasons that leave my head spinning, potatoes are vegetables! Let's leave the semantics alone for now and shift to meanness. If you have taken chips at high-end restaurants, or pretenders to ...

Rob Okun, syndicated by Peace Voice ( [email protected] ), is editor emeritus of Voice Male, a magazine that for more ...