Good and Poisoning it Forward

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  • Good and Poisoning it Forward

    This writer remembers better days for America where generous people performed acts of mercy and generosity, not for personal gain, but to pay it forward to the next generation.  We all basked in the warm glow of acts that ‘payed… Continue reading

  • Good, Power, Minds and Hearts

    The one good lesson that can be learned from this era is there is no hammer big enough or power sufficient to overcome the power of good minds and powerful hearts.  Nations will concede a lot but they ultimately won’t… Continue reading

  • Good and The Three Minds of America

    No science here; just observation. This writer sees three general mindsets in America: The Warring Mind and the Pure Process Mind  and the Peace Maker Mind. The first two minds are weak and the last is a power mind. Starting… Continue reading

  • Good and the Slaughter of Innocents

    Recently in Sudan, 60,000 inhabitants in the Sudanese city of El Fasher were simply slaughtered. How is that possible?  The arms industry and its many international branches of enterprise make it possible and our administration’s indifference to such horrifying mayhem… Continue reading

  • Good and the Abuse of Understanding

    Our latest war seems to have stalled out in a Memorandum of Misunderstanding where both sides realize they cannot win so they are trying to divide up the losses.In this writers experience most “memorandums of understanding” in any administration were… Continue reading

  • Good and Negotiating Victory in a War Already Lost

    Throwing the dice may work in a Casino once in a while, but it is not a good idea in the world of geopolitics. The average Iranian has certainly been a loser in this war when you consider the dice… Continue reading

  • Good and Congress’s lmpotence in Crisis: A Call for Presence, Help, and Hope

    How would you feel if you opened your heart and spilled your troubles to a person who could help and that person just turned around and walked out the door mumbling something about needing a break?  I suspect you might… Continue reading

  • 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 and the Life of A Grief that Lasts Too Long

    I have followed in this new century four wars and this writer has felt overwhelmed by the tragedies of schools being blown up along with teachers, staff and their young charges. It seems when a nation decides on war be… Continue reading