As President-Elect, Donald Trump is already demonstrating that he has absolutely no idea how to ignore or finesse a small embarrassment until it goes away, and giving those of us appalled by his election reason to hope for the results when, as happens to all Presidents, he suffers a major public relations crisis. Now he’s […]
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 […]
Originally published on Facebook July 22 2013, in response to Republican anger President Obama’s comments on the killing of Trayvon Martin. Still broadly applicable. Answering rising tensions in the wake of a Florida Court case involving discrimination against disabled individuals, President Franklin Roosevelt made a deeply emotional speech about his personal experiences with his disability. […]