" “The Supreme Folly Is To Think That War Can Be Stopped By War.” -Karl Barth A lot to say on this chilly, 22 degree morning in Manhattan. As one might expect, events in Iran have dragged me back into a lot of not great places over the weekend. First there was the rage and frustration over sending airmen into harm's way in an illegal, discretionary war. Then the disgust at my R friends who think this is all a good thing, that the ends justify the means although no one seems

"Writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all." - Charles Bukowski Sitting here scrambled in my thoughts after an acrimonious Zoom meeting. I have to admit I always find myself in these scrums trying to bring "peace into the room", as a mediator-author acquaintance of mine put it years ago. Crawling into my own head, I figure this is a vestige of growing up in an alcoholic household where, as the oldest child, I was constantly trying to head off confrontat

It's a sign that this is going to be a bit dashed off that I couldn't think of a title and settled for today's date. Class is in fourteen minutes. This one is probably the most challenging of the four, with massive reading assignments and some pretty complicated concepts related to taxation of commercial real estate transactions. I haven't finished the readings, but hope I can hum a few bars. The prof is pretty good about not putting people on the spot. No Professor Kingsfiel

"That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong -- throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings." -Abraham Lincoln, October 15, 1858 Debate at Alton, Il