The process of patiently and respectfully searching for opportunities like this—as opposed to escalating the situation, yelling and screaming, engaging in ad hominem attacks, or beating someone up—goes by many names. Some of those names are “acting like a grown up,” “maturity,” and, yes, “politics.”
Abstract: The irony of EFCA in a society that prizes personal liberty.
Governor Blagojevich follows Eliot Spitzer as the second (and hopefully last) gubernatorial recipient of the Jeffrey Skilling Award for Self-Destruction!
Today’s installment goes beyond business and looks at some of the craziness in the world today.
Sun Tzu opens chapter 4, on “Dispositions,” by warning the reader that truly skilled warriers first make themselves invincible, and then await an enemy’s vulnerability.
This one sentence—which remember, is held by many people in many quarters to be part of the most sage collection of military wisdom ever documented—completely undermines the strategic underpinning of Amercia’s current War on Terror.
Maybe it’s because I’m in Chicago. Maybe it’s because we sort of recognize that having elected a black man to the White House definitively means we are moving toward closure on racial wounds 219 years in the making. Maybe it’s because with the election behind us, everyone—reds and blues alike—can laugh openly about the borderline criminal hilarity of Palin’s nomination as VP.
Abstract: How the citizenry is to blame for allowing power hungry ignorami to gain power over us