In life, if people criticize you, you are allowed to respond, sometimes acerbically. If in those responses you consistently seek to completely marginalize the source, always, then you are a total asshole. I’m not saying that you can never say, “so-and-so is always full of shit,” because sometimes it’s true. I’m saying that this is your […]
So Hillary Clinton suffered a bout of pneumonia on the campaign trail. This happens. As has been pointed out, Jimmy Carter got so sick during his own run for the Presidency, during a schedule of almost non-stop handshaking, hustling to keep schedules, long speeches, airplane travel, and kissing those virus incubators known as babies, that […]
Originally published on Facebook 28 August 2015. For most of us, our heroes reflect our aspirations. Not the other way around. Oh, sure, we are capable of being influenced by iconic figures, …but in many cases, we select those icons by what our aspirations already are – even if they’re not aspirations we’re capable of […]