The president says nations must either fight terrorists or harbor them. The Bush Doctrine – two camps, no middle ground. Let’s take that idea and run with it. There are two kinds of people in the world, good people and bad people. Leaving the bad people aside for the moment, let’s separate the good people […]

It’s been over three weeks now, but I can’t shake this sense of dislocation. My mind now may go for hours attending to other business, but it’s always there, a preoccupation. Sooner or later, I remember and think, “Oh yeah, that’s right.” Then I take a deep breath and go on. In the middle of […]

So let’s say this is a war, and let’s say Osama bin Laden is the enemy. What does that mean? If we’re going to go to war, we should know our enemy. Lack of intelligence has been cited again and again as a precursor to last week’s tragedy. Osama bin Laden was born in Yemen […]

How would you feel if it got back to you that people were saying you had a “one-track” mind? I suppose you could make the best of it and consider it a compliment. Having a “one-track” mind could mean you are a focused, tenacious person, who sees a job through to the end. Still, you’d […]