The State of Texas, in its infinitely unique shit-kicker wisdom, has opted to drive its youth back to the Middle Ages, or it would drive them if it believed there actually were Middle Ages and if it had any idea when those Ages occurred. (Does anyone else marvel at a…
We have strategies for war, natural disaster, (sort of), and man-made folly. We have financial strategies and metaphorically, everything is some kind of sports strategy. There are daily corporate strategy meetings and well-honed strategies in games like bridge and chess and, yeah, Stratego®. But, we have no real peace strategy,…
I was having dinner with friends in Paris a couple of nights ago, (do I really need to write any more after that?), and as the topics of conversation bounced seamlessly between ‘World Peace’, ‘Lost Luggage’, ‘Leaking Oil’, ‘Mac v. PC’ and many, many others, the varied levels of impassioned…
It’s not like we, (I’m referring to the collective USA ‘we’), don’t have the tools and opportunity to be much, much more than we are. So, why are we squandering the greatest opportunity in the history of the world? I guess the answer lies in the murky realm of the…
I began my blog almost two year’s ago with a very positive piece about my nephew and since then, even trying on many pairs of rose-colored glasses, my commentary has erupted, (see Eyjafjallajokull reference, April 18, 2010, They Shoot Arizonans…Don’t They?), mostly from the dark side. Lest you think that I…