morality

  • Good and Why Immigration is not Political

    If you don’t understand why immigration is not essentially political you need to go to the movie Nuremberg which has recently opened in theaters. No, the treatment of the immigrant is first and foremost, moral.  The political response is only an echo of… Continue reading

  • Good, Governance and No Skin in the Game

    Saying that you have no skin in the game suggests you can be impartial and disinterested in the decisions to be made.  Generally that is a good thing to say for a mediator in a mediation.  However, in governance, ‘no… Continue reading

  • Good Starvation and the Sin of Distraction

    I suspect some forms of distraction could be called a moral transgression or in less letters and a shorter word, a sin. For example, the spreading of the the lies of crimes in politics while the crime actually occurs in… Continue reading

  • Good and the Slow Walk to Hell

    What is going on with immigration will redefine the history of this nation. Beckett and Kafka recognized the seeds of this problem long ago. The humane solution to the immigration problem is the administration of a rational law and funding… Continue reading

  • Good, Ethics, Breaking the Law and Country

    Ethics are mediating devices through which  humanity can prevent the rule of law from becoming a tyrant.  Every human person is infinitely complex and every human law is profoundly  limited due to that individual complexity.  The law is most definitely… Continue reading

  • Good, Waiting for Godot , and Unlikely Strangers

    Somehow Samual Becket’s Play “Waiting for Godot” keeps percolating up as I watch the inevitability of this political season unfold. Whatever one thinks of our current President, the nation such as it is, and its Supreme Court, have conceded the… Continue reading

  • Good and When a Detention Facility becomes a Concentration Camp

    Detention has become a euphemism for concentration.  Facility has become a euphemism for prison camp.  With a goal of 3,000 immigration arrests a day this administration is, intentionally or not, setting, the stage for concentration camps in America.  This is… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • Good, Us and Them, and When One is too Many

    When did it happen that a person in the United States can be arrested, no charges presented, and disappear unrepresented and disconnected from friends, family or community. Such behavior was once the exclusive domain of underdeveloped country’s possessed by ruthless… Continue reading

  • Good and Why did four to five hundred People Need to Die in Gaza?

    How you might ask will this writer tie the deaths of four to five hundred people he doesn’t even know to the word good.  The answer is simple; he can’t. So I will write about something closer to penance.  I can’t… Continue reading