I’m not as worried about Ukraine as I was. I’m not making any predictions, tho. — For some reason, probably related to his megalomania problem, Putin thought Ukraine would be a pushover. He’d blitzkrieg right in there and snap it up. Zelinski is a comedian, a joke himself. He’d roll over in 24 hours. At least that’s how it all worked in Putin’s mind. He wants…

Grateful to whom? — I always hated all the nonsense about gratitude because “gratitude” is an activity you don’t do alone. You are grateful to someone or something. I knew it was a way — deliberately or unconsciously — to smuggle in the supernatural. You are grateful to God, if Christian, Ganesh, if Hindu…

Deciding what to do next — Morality #1: Do that which pleases God. Morality #2: Do that which results in human flourishing.

And all the others — When I watched the video of Derick Chauvin lynching George Floyd, I kept getting flashbacks to Rodney King lying in the street with cops surrounding him, beating him, trying to kill him. Given last summer we were in the middle of a pandemic, I didn’t expect the reaction of the…

Self-management and the Coaching Mindset — The life coaching mindset starts out in self-consciousness and ends in self-awareness. Getting from one state to the other takes some time and isn’t ever complete. Most people who learn life coaching start out self-conscious. While we are usually comfortable having conversations with people, a life coaching conversation has a…

Written by Jim Crow to preserve the brutality of Jim Crow — There is a script we have been following for about a century and a half. Act I: White people treat black people worse than they would treat animals. Act II: Black people object. Act III: White people tell each other that these are rioters and slaughter as many as they…

If you ignore reality, it will eat you alive. — I was in my favorite boutique dispensary the other day. A couple of young men worked behind the counter. They were lovely — friendly, informative, polite. They laughed at my lame jokes. After everything was bagged up and I was ready to go I had to talk about something that…

The police need to scrub their departments — Recently in a wealthy St. Louis district, a couple pointed guns at BLM protesters strolling by on the sidewalk. It was more than a little hair-raising to watch rather ordinary Americans pointing guns at a bunch of other ordinary Americans who were too close and in too large numbers. They…

Your heritage can kiss my fanny — I’m sorry, but that heritage is slavery and Jim Crow. Don’t tell me that you never owned a slave. The only reason you’ve never owned a slave is because the South lost the war. If they had won you would likely own slaves today because they would be a symbol…