"Anger is the last refuge of the pathetic; a man's mettle is tested by how bitter a brew he can drink." Godot, from Ace Attorney...
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From The Ashes
With news services stuck in the seemingly endless loop of residual agonizing over the George Zimmerman trial, few other stories this week have been able to rise above the threshold of what is considered newsworthy enough to interrupt to the...
Walk Like an Egyptian… Lessons in Leadership From the Land of the Pharaohs
"May you live in interesting times" is said to be an ancient Chinese curse. I'm not sure who pronounced it on our generation of earth dwellers, but certainly, these are interesting times! Increasingly, we are being faced with issues that transcend...
How to Hide a Train Wreck
He's the "idea man". You know the type. The guy who's always spouting off grand ideas on how to run things, or "fix" what's broken; full of "solutions", but never actually part of the implementation of those solutions. In their own minds,...
You Can Not Be Syria-s!
I watched a video today. I did not want to, but felt compelled so that I could write this with the passion it is due. It was the video of Syrian rebels beheading three old men, one of them a Catholic bishop. They...