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  • Good and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Shoulders of Giants.

    While criticism of the contemporary American scene may be important, the one thing criticism doesn’t generate is a vision of a better world or the Next Democracy. That task has already been started for us and we need only to go back one century to benefit from studying that clearer vision. The Chair of United…

  • Good and the Price of your Soul

    The good news is that if you want to sell your soul, at least the president and his party have put a real price tag on it.  For tens of thousands of years the human soul has evaded the commodification of the soul’s value.  Those who presumably sold their souls to the devil became the…

  • Good and the Assault on Goodness

    This writer sees the eyes roll when I suggest I am writing this column to support and rehabilitate the word “good”.  The more interested people who contest this approach ask me if I am promoting the all out relativity of good and implying what the individual feels is good is always good.  That is when…

  • Good and Out of Chaos . . . War

    This is the time for organizational pundits to stop praising the opportunities of chaos and disorder just to liven up another leadership training session.  The idea of opportunity in chaos is solid, but the opportunities are far more often devastating and destructive than helpful. Chaos is a force without a partner.  Chaos doesn’t need you,…

  • Words Better than Mine: Shattered Leadership and In Praise of Coldness; Poet Jane Hirshfield

    A genius poet can wrap up an entire era in a few lines, and instruct a whole nation in a single stanza. Excerpted from a poem entitled In Praise of Coldness by Jane Hirshfield  . . . Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow pretend to be fearless.  In happiness tremble.”…

  • Good, No Center No Power and the Lethal Game of Chicken

    If you are reading the news critically and from a range of sources you will see there is no political good news.  We are in a slow motion game of chicken with ourselves.  “Chicken” is the game where two parties cruise down the highway from opposite directions at lethal speed and on the same lane. …

  • Good, “My Own Morality” and the Morality of Plurality

    Our elected President has declared when asked about the limits to his power that his limits were “my own morality”.  Perhaps clever, but it turned out to be an accidental statement of truth rare as that may be from that source.  The flaw of course is that one person does not make a morality.  Morality…

  • Good, Dark Money and the Vampires of Future

    The current Administration’s unprecedented orgy of debt accumulation, assault on the value of the dollar, and obsession with bitcoin should not strike anyone as subtle.  We, in the this generation, have grown up with the dollar as the globe’s benchmark currency.  In the past the fiscal crises of the United States we have triggered a…

  • Good, the American Heart, and True Greatness:

    This is Sunday so this day this writer will say good things about a good person. Dolly Parton was not at the center of my own life and heart across her life time, but I was always fascinated by my own grudging respect for her talent, voice, generosity, courage and complete unapologetic uniqueness. Until she…

  • Good and Lake Ontario is Lake Ontario is Lake Ontario is . . . .

    The Executive Order is not a birch paddle one can use to spank Nations.  Now our volatile President thinks he can change the names of our beloved Great Lakes with a piece of paper because he is miffed.  Maybe if climate change grinds on he will change the name of Planet Earth itself to Planet…