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  • Good , Grief, Funerals in Minnesota, and the Art of Rage

    This was written a few days before the assassinations in Minnesota so I will post it lest we forget too soon.  Two ways to accomplish change:  create a compelling vision with a plan, or simply engineer mass rage.  The second option is pretty much what the current stage masters of American history are working on. …

  • Good, Empathy, Conscience and War

    This writer scans the news for actual facts and waits for the information to either contradict or confirm existing versions of what might be true. This morning of course, the headlines screamed WAR. And below that prospect were the news stories that were lined up to exist under a less demanding headline. Stories about the…

  • Good and What is Deeper than Opportunism?

    Capitalism and the American system take heavy criticism for being opportunistic.  Some of that criticism is profoundly merited and some slightly hypocritical.  We all tend to love opportunity when it serves our cause.   The legal system is being exploited and pilloried on similar grounds.  We love the Supreme Court and all of its branches of…

  • Good, War, and the Perils of Peace

    To predict the likelihood of war perhaps we should evaluate the perils of peace. War can be used as a shield from certain legal liabilities for indicted or convicted leaders. This perverse system of incentives is probably why it would be a good idea not to frustrate the nation’s jurisdiction from reaching the actions of…

  • Good, Immigration, and Living in the Frosting of a Cake

    I am learning that many people like the current administration’s goals, but dislike the methods used to achieve those goals. David French of the New York Times caught that surprising factoid from a CBS/YouGov poll. That shouldn’t surprise us but it does. Consider how many people love a steak. We are trained to love that wonderful…

  • Good and the Tools of Hatred

    True hatred such as anti-semitism can’t work unless the context is built and preconditions are met. One can set up certain pre-conditions and simply walk away as the actions of planted hatred roll out their grim statistics at arms length.  Nothing looks intentional that way. If you set up the right conditions you can even superficially…

  • Good and Bring In the Clowns

    Two men/boys in positions of vast power and influence publicly squabbled with each other yesterday. The squabble would be garden variety pathetic except they hold positions of power in our nation. The squabble involves the livelihoods of hundreds and thousands of people and the future of our democracy. How could anyone not see this coming?…

  • Good, Why We?, and Wily Culpability

    This Project might pull in more readers if this writer stopped using the pronouns  “we” and “us” and started pointing fingers.  I think the current approach may be frustrating to some friends both liberal and conservative.  There are reasons for this deliberate avoidance of using the names of the usual suspects. Anymore there are some…

  • Good, and the Passive Deaths We Own

    The tragic truth is people are dying as the world’s cultures and economies shake themselves trying to find an equilibrium. The search for equilibrium or at least a rough justice in essential life resource distribution, as we have seen, has been undone by something as simple as greed or more biblically ‘avarice’. The salve we…

  • Good, Character, Class, and Picking Friends and Allies

    The one downside of having reached the top is there is nowhere to run from your mistakes.  A wealthy businessman who makes mistakes near the top can always resign and pull out the old trope of needing to spend time with family or other “creative pursuits.  After all, the mistake is the harsh task master…