Philosophy
Sure As ****
I just got some bad news and thought to myself, “I sure as hell don’t want ____ to happen.” That made me wonder, why hell? Of all the things in the universe to be absolutely certain of, why hell?
As with so many colloquialisms, I do not actually believe in this one any more than I […]
An Attitude of Gratitude
I sat down to write about something mundane and got distracted reading the NPR This I Believe stories.
Mary Chapin Carpenter just got out of the hospital after suffering a pulmonary embolism. Now, recuperating, she is climbing The Learning Curve of Gratitude. I found her article shortly after the shock of reading a friend’s name in […]
For Whom Do We Mourn?
Tragedy struck on Monday when 33 people died at Virginia Tech. Flags fly at half mast as we grope through feelings of hurt, anger, helplessness, and grief. President Bush was so moved that he offered personal condolences,
It’s impossible to make sense of such violence and suffering. Those whose lives were taken did […]
Good Advice
This seems to be good-advice day. I am reading Exceeding Customer Expectations, about Enterprise Rent-a-Car’s highly successful business practices. As expected, it is full of good advice. Key seems to be: assure that your customers are completely satisfied.
And then, reading a completely unrelated magazine article, I ran across this adage:
Learn from the mistakes of others; […]
Chanukah — Day 1 — Freedom of Worship
Chanukah starts tonight, our annual “festival of lights.” It gets tangled up with Christmas because, well, because kids (big and little) like to get presents. Who can complain? Our holiday is completely different than Christmas, though. Several themes comprise Chanukah and, over the next eight days, I will be writing about the ones that seem […]
Gratitude
This seems to be the year for in-my-face opportunities for thankfulness. My family is having its problems; life isn’t perfect. But it ain’t nothin’ compared to lots of other people that I know.
At least three of the women in my life are battling breast cancer and one man has another kind of cancer. One person […]
Machine Gun Sentry Robot
NewLaunches.com brings news that Samsung develops machine gun sentry robot.
Samsung has partnered with Korea university and developed the machine-gun equipped robotic sentry.
Do you remember the scientists who worked on the atomic bombs and later regreted their decisions to do so? I am afraid that we are about to see history repeat itself. One of these […]
Live Transparently
Joseph poses a good idea in his posting on Changes in Lobbying Practices
Lobbyists would be required to hire a Congressional stenographer to record the entire interaction, every single time they interact with someone in Congress. The transcript would then go on the Internet.
Better yet, the whole thing also would be videotaped, and the recording […]
