The View from a Drawbridge

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  • On Being a Force for Good

    On Being a Force for Good

    People who do can make a difference this world of ours.

  • We Have to Stick Together

    When any of us rise, we all rise.

  • The Darker Side of Philanthropy

    The rich have their reasons.

  • I Count, Too.

    I want my very own placard.

  • The Dreams I Have

    On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and indeed every day of the year, we should reflect on our progress and lack thereof with regard to human rights. How can we improve, and what can we as individuals do to bring about these improvements? King had a dream. We should all have a dream. In fact,…

  • Mass Killings in Schools

    Ripped from the headlines: A man kills his wife, and then goes to a school and kills 43 people, 38 of whom were children between the ages of 7 and 12, and injures 58 more before killing himself. Sandy Hook Elementary School? Nope. The Bath School Disaster occurred on May 19, 1927 and shocked the…

  • Sovereign Citizens: The Tip of the Tassel on the Lunatic Fringe

    None of us like to pay taxes. But most of us are rational human beings who realize that the nation’s infrastructure can’t be provided for free. If we are stupid enough to break a law, we may not like getting arrested, but we sure appreciate it when an operator is at the other end of…

  • The Dark Side of Achievement

    I’ve always been a huge success in the academic world. Top of my class. The envy of my peers. So everyone, including me, assumed I’d be a huge success in the real world as well. I’m fairly certain my mother believed I’d be the CEO of a fortune 500 company by the time I was…

  • The Road Kill Crew

    I don’t know if this is still the case, but when I worked for the Department of Transportation more than a decade ago, there was one crew in this very large metropolis of mine that dedicated the bulk of their time to riding around and scraping dead animals off the highways. We called them the…

  • History Repeats Itself

    Here in America most of us think of the Great Depression as being something that impacted our country alone. Not so. The depression did originate in the United States after the stock market crashed in 1929, but it spread throughout the world, causing drops in personal income, tax revenue, and international trade. Unemployment went sky…