It is not a concept to be taught. It is a talent to be coached. There are good reasons for being critical about specific American policies.  But some Americans denigrate all things American.  If you are one of these, you hate yourself, whether you know it or not.  If you hate yourself, you cannot build [...]

Six months ago an earthquake flattened Haiti.  Today the country is still in ruins.  Why?  The answer is simple, but “mokita.”  Mokita is a word from New Guinea which means “a truth everyone knows but no one will talk about.” The mokita about Haiti is that Haiti does not produce good leaders.  Some Haitians put [...]

Sympathy for your enemies?  Should you wish the best for a President whose policies you adamantly oppose?  Some may call this Sympathy for the Devil.  In that song of our youth, the devil urges us to  ”have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste” and be polite. Those in power always want their suffering [...]

Why do so many try to prove Obama is weak, ineffective, out-of-touch, mendacious, even anti-American?  Many of his supporters won’t be convinced.  To them, he’s a phenomenon who will straighten out all that is wrong with America.  I hope he is, but he seems more like an epiphenomenon. In other words, he’s a side effect [...]

Poverty does not cause crime or low test scores In our ongoing world financial crisis, Ukraine has fallen far further than any other country.  It’s currency has fallen 40% in the last year.  And it was the poorest in Europe before the crisis began.  Yet junior high girls can hitch hike to school totally safely.  [...]

Billy Bob Bubba on the DIRE FINANCIAL CRISIS You may not know too many of the parallel universes familiar to cosmologists [(and cosmetologists) we'll just call them all cosmos for short], where the normal rules are turned upside down and the traditional prudent warnings and laws no longer apply.  Cosmos know these universes.  They generate [...]