Thursday, September 11, 2003
The Most Trusted Man in America
The most trusted man in America. How does a person get that title? If you are Walter Cronkite you got it by doing your job. In recent months there have been a flurry of attacks by right wing columnists and reporters against the comments of the former CBS news anchor. Last night, Walter Cronkite...
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Tuesday, September 2, 2003
Labor of love
Labor. The work of completion. Building the achievements of a civilization. The works of great men may be duly recorded but it is the truer achievements of the regular people that last far longer in our collective memory. We may not know of an individual effort but the collective will of the group...
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Friday, August 22, 2003
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Truth
What kindness have you done today? Was it large or small? Did it touch one life or many? Today was an indispensable gift. How did you spend it? Is someone better off today for your passing his or her way? There are no real right answers to the questions I raised above. They are moralities of the...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Betting on freedom from fear
A numbers game, in the end it will all come down to the numbers. Nine states that equals the number 243. The number of Electoral College votes held by nine states. Presidential election 2004 will be a high stakes game of bluff poker. California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio,...
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Monday, August 11, 2003
Deception and the art of lies
Deception is an easy business to practice. It rains down on all our heads, like a persistent mist. Lies' and casual deceits that allow us to use and manipulate people with a callous disregard. Just a few, short years ago such behavior would have seemed woefully out of place. Now it's as common as...
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Friday, August 8, 2003
razor at my throat
How utterly hopeless does it have to be before even the insane cringe. It's entirely too sad that the very acts of kindness and charity that we have come to rely on will now fall before the scythe like attack of public opinion. WE have inaugerated a change to the national fabric that goes way beyond...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2003
Fools in war
Why is it easier to destroy than it is to create? How noble are our intentions that we always seem to resort to destroying things rather than creating something. In big ways and little ones we are all going through a continual process of change. It's notoriously easy to see this process only through...
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Monday, July 28, 2003
The tree of liberty
Life is precious. All life should be held in the same regard. There should be no artificial distinctions between people. If the world where perfect and people where allowed to live in common dignity then these statements would be true. If all life where precious then there would never be a need to...
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Friday, July 25, 2003
Raven in the raw!
"We hold these truths to be self evident." That's nice but it's about as real as the concept of an honest politician. There is no such animal as a self-evident truth. This is only an opinion and it won't be popular but life shouldn't be a popularity contest. I may be flirtatious and willing to dive...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2003
The Presidency has AIDS
Soon I fear I will see another star on the memorial wall. The Central Intelligence Agency puts a star up when it loses an operative. The irresponsible actions of the Presidents staff in framing the case for war in Iraq have set the stage to add more stars to that wall. As I have stated elsewhere the...
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