I am reading a very interesting book edited by Robert Cowley, “What if?: The World’s Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been“.
It is an anthology of essays that look into historic events which would have had drastic consequences for the way we live today if some small event had not happened.
Ignoring the entire point […]
This is a prime example of why I started ‘Blogging’.
A near-miss of two airplanes last week has started a frenzy of fear.
A pilot acknowledged his ATC transmission to ‘hold short’ but didn’t.
So, Mary Peters, the US Transportation Secretary, at 10:45am January 14th 2008 during an interview on FOX news, said that the plans are to update […]
Once you cross the ‘line’- no matter which line, it becomes easier and easier to repeat that crossing- particularly if there are no consequences.
This applies to borders, to the decisions regarding honesty, to taking that pad and pencil from work or to behavior.
Lines are something like fences, but being invisible they are a lot easier […]
The harder and the longer the climb, the higher the mountain and the better the view when you get to the top.It’s not easy to get ahead. Remember how difficult it was to memorize the ‘times table’? But you did it and you survived.
When I was in high school I did just enough to get […]
I had not planned to get into this subject at the present time but events sometimes arise that push us in directions not of our choosing.
Today, there was a news article on the Internet from The Christian Science Monitor. It was an article written by Mackubin Thomas Owens who is Professor of National Security Affairs […]
