history
-
Good, America, and the Playground Bully’s Fate
This writer has lost more than a few playground fights in his youth. I learned to give those sullen, foul mouthed, often lonely, bulked up bully boys a little space. As I matured I watched wondering what happened to them. … Continue reading
-
Good and Move Over God, The War Department has This
One thing we should have learned by now is you can’t prevail in a war using bombs exclusively and those ‘boots on the ground’ will ultimately be worn by our young men and women and not the people who send… Continue reading
-
Good, War Dependency, and the Warring Mind
Two world “leaders” dependent on war for personal legal reasons or bumping their poll numbers up have just started a war. There is no question these two public men should be cautious and very public about entering a war in… Continue reading
-
Good, the Chain of Kingdoms, Sloth, and the Constitution
I want to be king of the world, but if not that, than maybe President/King of the United States. If not that, then perhaps Governor/king of a state in the United States. Well, . . maybe Mayor/king of a smaller… Continue reading
-
Good and When Investigation Goes Nuclear
The tragic problem with nuclear weapons has been up until recently it has been mutually understood that a nuclear war was a lose-lose response assuring many many civilians would die and no one would win. The Epstein investigation went public… Continue reading
-
Good and It’s the Economy and Yet, It Isn’t. Its Amnesia and more
A nation that can’t lift its gaze beyond the economy is doomed to be lost. Unregulated capitalism is a game of winners and losers. Unfortunately, we will never be able to fit in that straight jacket of simplistic logic and… Continue reading
-
Good, A Satisfied Mind, and the Next Democracy for the United States
How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I could do things my way Little do they know that is hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind . . .… Continue reading
-
Good, the Work Force, and Big Lies
The calculus of the American work force is not what we are supposed to think. The meme constructed by the current administration is one of immigrant workers taking American jobs and American workers looking on in envy as their opportunities… Continue reading
-
Good and Shooting Ourselves to Death
War Like a whale, is all consuming Everything fits into its mesh mouth … The bullet is a beast, as are we Our invisible battles are the hardest to win. . . by Amanda Gorman, excerpted from her poem; War:… Continue reading
-
Good, Truth Carrying Grief, and the Atomized Society
History has thrust upon our generation an indescribably important task–to complete the process of democratization which our nation has too long developed too slowly, but which is our most powerful weapon for world respect and emulation. How we deal with… Continue reading
The Good Decision Home 