October 2008 Archives

Can we resist the mob mentality? Seneca, the great Roman thinker, warned us in his life and from his death, that we must resist the measure of the mainstream.

We know a promise only lives as long as the one making the promise, and today we must confess that no idea is forever. 

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Colin Powell appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday and he made an eloquent defense for Barack Obama as president while resoundingly defeating the cruel, and unfounded, attacks by the radical right wing that Obama is as Muslim when he is not; but, Powell argued, what if Obama were a Muslim?  What difference would it make?  What difference should it make?  Then General Powell mentioned an arresting image he saw in the New Yorker showing Elsheba Khan resting her head on the grave of her dead Muslim American son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. Powell told us Special Khan fought for America and his sacrifice was no less than that of any Christian.

I do not believe in regret.  We live our lives.  We make decisions.  We must live with the decisions we make because we cannot travel back in time to make amends for bad behavior or mulligan immoral responses to moral conditions.

How do you get rid of the rotten worker without reams of documentation and yearning?  Is there a quick and safe way to nip the dead weight from drowning your company?

There are those alive in the world that seek to find personal insult in any utterance and a deep wounding in every gesture or glance.  Those brittle people only feel better in playing the system to punish those that they believe have punctured them.

There are some wrongs that are so terrible and so terrifying -- and that wound all of humanity so harshly -- that they can never be set right in the lifetimes of those who perpetrated, and received, the cruelty.

"Qui tacet consentire videtur" is a Latin phrase the law translates into:  "Silence equals consent."