Woe to the idiot – Me . . .

I had my shoes and socks off the other day because my feet were hurting from walking so much. I was looking at the tattoo on the top of my foot and reminiscing as to how it got there. I was about twenty years old in New Orleans and walking through the French Quarter...

Bright Eyes

One of the things I enjoy most in life is conversing in virtually any format, (verbally, phone, or e-mail), with intelligent people. I have often counseled junior managers to try and hire the most intelligent team members they can find, and that one can always spot...

Children run and hide!

At New York’s annual Drag March on Friday, activists chanted “we’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.” Two years ago, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus released a YouTube video in which 81 of its members sang...

When disaster strikes

I had to visit Dallas for a few days and I’m staying in a hotel just a couple of miles from a site where I had a very traumatic experience. It happened a couple of decades ago yet remains deeply imbedded in my memory. I wrote about it in Words for the Day back...

Don’t end up like Harvard?

“Is Academia Awash in Liberal Bias?” This is one of many recent headlines we see as the world grapples with a question that we’ve been debating for decades: are colleges and universities dominated by liberals? Over the past few years, charges that...