December 20, 2012
Happy Days?
A friend of mine reminded me via Facebook that the nation celebrated the 80th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition yesterday. For all of those folks who have been or will be imbibing at your Christmas, please remember that 81...
December 19, 2012
Negotiation 101
I ran across an article on the Internet written by Barbara Braham, who apparently is an expert on the subject, about the art of negotiation. Negotiation is an important part of life, and obviously what Congress and the President do...
December 18, 2012
History and Change: On Daniel Inouye
It had been 31 years since a bunch of American businessmen had organized a coup against the monarchy that had ruled Hawaii for generations when Daniel Inouye was born. His parents came from Japan, and along with Korean and Chinese...
December 17, 2012
The Newtown Parents
President Obama asked the right question Sunday night in his address to the nation, a question I have been asking myself for months: Are we powerless? Can we do nothing to protect ourselves from mentally deranged mass murderers? Policymakers had...
December 17, 2012
Evil Vs. Crazy
Evil is back in the news. So is crazy. Was Adam Lanza evil or crazy? Or both? Sometimes it is hard to tell which is which. Lanza, the Newtown killer, wasn’t crazy enough to be committed into an institution. He...
December 15, 2012
The Enemy Within
I feel like America is collectively living in a very disturbing episode of the Twilight Zone. The events from Friday morning in Connecticut have thrown me for a loop. A kid from the suburbs killed a bunch of small kids...