decision-making
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Good and the Humanitarian as Terrorist
If you listen to the current news cycle you begin to wonder when concern for fellow human beings will soon be labeled as a act of terror. Mind you this post is not about violence because violence requires one suspend… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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.… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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Good, Change and the Poet Laureate
We each carry the story of our birthplace in pieces of earth, water, sky and spirit. Though nothing appears to have changed here in this Indian town along the Arkansas River, it is always changing. Joy Harjo from her book Conflict… Continue reading