Two days before the inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th President of the United State, a woman on Facebook had a freak-out. Did she blame the Tea Party for his election, the Republicans, the rust belt, the Evangelicals? No, she blamed Hillary Clinton because she shot down Bernie
In my final years of public service, I’d become somewhat adept at finding places in our county budget where administrators could hide money. I don’t blame them. Managers long for stability and politician’s hunger to create new programs for which they can take bows. Even so, when
Three years ago, I warned a religious war was being fought and won under the guise of medical acquisitions and mergers. Catholic hospitals were buying secular hospitals and imposing religious restrictions on procedures that had previously been available. (Blog 11/8/2013) S
A Facebook friend put up a snapshot of me attending a writer friend’s book signing. I had braved a dark and stormy night to get there so when I spied my picture on social media, I wrote, “It looks like Albert Einstein and I have the same hairdresser.” Yes, at my age, I can l
“A Polemic,” may be too grand a title for this blog. While not intending to be impassioned, I would like to lay out the reason why I labor each day to put a few ideas, most of them not my own, in to print. I owe that explanation to myself as well as to my readers. I write my
Since Donald Trump was elected to the highest office in the land, the stock market has jumped to new highs. The president attributes that rise to his win but there is another explanation. As Liz Ann Sonders, a strategist of Charles Schwab, explains, companies are anticipating a ri
As technology keeps drawing people around the globe together, tribal instincts that once served us well, are putting us in danger. Some of the examples of tribalism are near to insanity: The owner of a convenience store in New Mexico put up a sign recently: “Obama and other Mu
A reader commented on my blog of January 4, 2017. The topic was about leadership. In it, I referenced an article where researchers had concluded values, above intelligence or experiences, was the primary quality for a statesperson. The woman recounted a discussion she’d had wi
Recently, a woman on Facebook admitted she received most of her news from social media. If true, she is making a couple of mistakes. First, she is foreclosing on ideas outside her narrow group of like-minded friends. Second, she’s vulnerable to fake news, much of it propagan
Writer Rick Perlstein draws some frightening comparisons between Richard Nixon and Donald trump, but concludes that of the two, Nixon, because he was an introspective man, set limits on his immorality. (He’s Making a List,” by Rick Perlstein, New Republic, Jan/Fe, 2017 pgs. 18-1