“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble… It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” -Mark Twain
Quote of the Week: Mark Twain
Why this blog? Why now?
After a career in criminal and civil investigations, mediation and various levels of “keeping the peace,” or at least trying to, I have come to believe that too few of us enter […]
Meet the 13 Most Powerful Muslim Women in Britain
Note: I am sharing this image and headline to draw attention to the fact that these well-educated, professional and successful Muslim women are in fact still Muslim. If even clearly successful and […]
Pick of the Week: Frontline’s “Losing Iraq”
Check out this 90-minute special report from FrontLine on what led to the current chaos in Iraq — and how the Obama administration is being pulled back into the conflict… http://www.pbs.org/frontline/losing-iraq/
Learning from the “Tree of 40 Fruit”
CBS news shared a snippet about a Syracuse art professor, Sam Van Aken, who created, over a nine-year period, a single tree bearing forty different fruit. Here is the photo (or an […]
America’s “Jihad” is part of a Global struggle…
Both individually and collectively, we are struggling over our values and the extent to which we are willing to engage our “world,” however large or small that might be. This goes on […]
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter
Throughout the history of warfare it has generally been accurate to say, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” In 2003, this adage has never been more true than in the […]
America's "Jihad" 