If on the news tomorrow it was announced that scientists had come up with a pill to cure drug and alcohol addiction, the world would be both stunned and ecstatic. The cost of reliance on drugs in human and economic terms is staggering. The possibility...
Like most people I shudder whenever I receive news of a plane crash. Knowing that you are going to die shortly and violently and there is nothing you can do is cruel beyond bearing. It is a possibility we all dread. Likewise, and like others,...
Not long ago, there appeared an ad in a popular online classified site from a person in need of a considerable amount of typing and bookkeeping. The person who had placed the ad described herself as a “life coach” and was looking to barter. For...
Have you ever worked with or worse for, the office prick? This is the guy who never does any real work himself, but like a buzzard, hovers around until it’s time to move in for the kill. You know the type, the sycophant who spends...
The President of the United States was in Mexico recently talking about issues important to both nations. What he said and what he wanted to say were far removed from one another. The main topic was that which consumes Mexico and the Mexican/US relationship these...
A friend of mine walked into an airport the other day, arrived at the check-in counter and said; “I’m going to Boston. I’ve got three suitcases. I want one sent to Denver, one to Atlanta and one to LA. The agent said, “I’m sorry sir,...
The Swiss have pretty much figured things out. Like the Great Wallendas, they learned how to walk a fine line. They are passionately dispassionate. They survived intact in a tough neighborhood. During two world wars in the 20th century, the Swiss went about their business,...
Not wanting to be upstaged by Michael Jackson, the Pope went on a tour of his own recently. Like a criminal returning to the scene of the crime, he and his entourage showed up in sub-Saharan Africa to spread his version of the word of...
On Sunday, March 15, 2009, a general election took place in El Salvador, the Saviour. After twenty years in the violent political wilderness that is El Salvador, Mauricio Funes of the leftist FMLN party and former guerilla rebel, led his followers to victory over the...
Slowly, much too slowly, he began his fade. It took some time to realize because the depths in which he lurked were well out of sight. It seemed he would never leave. But of course he had to. Invited in like a vampire, he had...