The Vietnam war ended, variously when I was 12 or 13. It all depends whether you measure it when the US left or Saigon fell. I was young, yet the whole thing has been a big definition of who I became.... Things I know... I get tired of politicians saying, that when someone young dies … Continue reading I Still Don’t Understand…
Month: September 2017
Sleight of Hand
Subterfuge. Pick one. The president is good at it. Does he do it intentionally? Probably, after all Roy Cohn, the master of sleaze and dirty tricks, taught him well. But is Trump that smart? Who knows? 23 October 1983, two suicide bombers detonate truck bombs in Beirut, killing 220 Marines and many others. 25 October … Continue reading Sleight of Hand
Kneeling (part 2)
Trump's attack on kneeling is an attack on faith, an attack on God. How dare he suggest that kneeling is an act of disrespect? Resist
Kneeling
Kneeling. When I first started this blog, had someone told me I'd be writing about kneeling, well, I'd have thought they were a bit nuts. But then again, we live in some sort of surreal alternate universe. Trump's America has me often wondering if anything that I thought I knew still makes sense. But unlike … Continue reading Kneeling
Random Thoughts
#Fucktrump almost has me ending my boycott of the NFL. Almost. Won't happen. There's still that CTE thing. And Collin Kaepernick still doesn't have a job. Does the president care that his attack on the NFL, on Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors, pretty much on black athletes in general is doing more for … Continue reading Random Thoughts
Never Quit
“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.” - John Fitzgerald Kenned Resist
Quote: Time Moves On
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown Resist
Real Life
So I'm watching this movie "Nicky's Family" and I'm thinking I could never send my daughter away, even if it meant saving her life. Then I realized I did. The difference from the movie is that my life wasn't lost by staying. Resist
Leadership…
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill Resist
A thought for today….
"Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind." - Hamilton Wright Mabie Resist