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  • Good and Power’s Purpose

    In reading a New York Times article interviewing younger Americans who voted for the current administration I came away with the sense the only thing they absolutely agreed upon is the opposition party (in this case Democrats) lacked coherent identity and the collective power necessary to do the work.  These interviewees were also increasingly ambiguous…

  • Good and Rebuilding the Left and the Right in Politics

    If politics are ever going to help America out of its current dilemma we have to change the political paradigm.  Current left and right wings are becoming calls for conflict and violence. Extremists on both wings are almost always authoritarian.  The true work of public service politics is far too difficult and tedious for the…

  • Good and the New Dog Whistlers of the USA

    A dog whistle in actual use operates at a pitch just beyond the range of human hearing. If you see a dog respond to a human with a dog whistle and are unaware of the whistle’s uses uses you are amazed at something behavioral coming from nothing discernible. Right now starting, people are using certain…

  • Good and Leadership’s Shame

    It is hard and sorrowful to live in a country where the President himself acts as if ashamed of the American story. The current leadership is so ashamed they strive to erase all the dark and hard dimensions of the whole weave of our history. What will be left after the current spasm of censorship…

  • Good, Governing, Story, and the Insidious Anecdote

    Mistaking an anecdote for a larger trend has been, is and will continue to be a fatal error in building public policy. When intentionally transforming a few anecdotes or stories, true or not, into a trend you have an evil strategy. Only metrics or numbers can bring a genuine trend to light and numbers cannot lie.…

  • Good and the Moot of Assassination

    There probably would have been little Charlie Kirk and and I would have agreed upon in the rough and tumble of politics, but all those differences were rendered ‘moot’ by the news of his assassination. From the moment I heard the news, the world of politics was set on a shelf because something irreversible had…

  • Good, Self Harm, and Arresting the American Work Ethic

    If we Americans were collectively a teenager we would be in therapy for cutting on ourselves.  How very odd that we would arrest one the of support beams of this sprawling concept called the ‘American Work Ethic’.  Keep in mind one does not successfully motivate a population to work the hours we work in this…

  • Good and the Importance of Center

    Show me a high performance athlete who doesn’t understand the importance of the center of gravity. You can’t.   They may not have the language for it but they understand the feel of the center, and when they fall even a touch off-center the putt doesn’t go into the hole, the football travels high for…

  • Good and the Many Faces of Posturing

    “If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything…

  • Good, and the Art Cultivating Enemies and Burning Friends

    This writer is not sure of the value of starting a powerful club who won’t have you as a member. And yet that is the apparently strategy of our current leader who took the second most powerful nation in the world and paired it with two lesser powers thus creating perhaps the most powerful alliance…