Category Archives: Leadership

An average of 40 pages of lusty words the General is supposed to have written to his one (and only?) non-mistress, amounting to a solid body of work of 30,000 pages. Such love for lust! And that when he should … Continue reading →

I am really going to miss you, cried the newly red state to the former blue: you were my only fertile  issue, and I always felt so new, opposing you. Get yourself a tissue, reprimanded its experienced mate, and lets … Continue reading →

Surely Mark Twain could not have been thinking about current Democrats when he pronounced (Innocents Abroad): “Nobody can steer a donkey, and some collided with camels, dervishes, effendis, asses, beggars and every thing else that offered to the donkeys a … Continue reading →

At a recent auction, a copy of a 1938 comic book on Superman was sold for $2.1 million. This isn’t about children being sold silly comic books (to “capture their imagination”), it is about our financial heroes who have so … Continue reading →

If you really want to ban pleasure forever, force people into it. Forbidden pleasures still can have a special sweetness, increasing the allure of what might have passed unnoticed. But make people do what they might otherwise enjoy and it … Continue reading →

The history of human follies does make good reading, entertaining us with endless stories of how often the survival of the silliest seems to be part of the intelligent design. We also relish tales about how nature can be ruthless … Continue reading →

Ever since President George Bush’s “Thousand Points of Light,” the country has been swept by a rising tide of dictated voluntarism and internships for the young. At a recent meeting of directors of the Colorado Leadership Alliance (CLA), I was … Continue reading →

As standardized testing increases, males increasingly choose to be absent from higher education. For our leadership program at the University of Colorado Denver, up to 75% of the applicants are female. By the time young people apply to college, they … Continue reading →

Imagine looking down on earth from a divine perspective: low and behold, a Rolls Royce Silver-Lining is changing hands, going from one person’s garage to the next. Would you really care? If you did care about the future of this … Continue reading →

Reading about all those emotional appeals against the US government, by Presidential Candidates, I have become increasingly convinced that they simply do not go far enough. It is fine and good when Rick Perry combines his promise to  ”work everyday … Continue reading →

High up on the river embankment of the Denver Cherry Creek bike path often sits a lone young man, of about the age of a veteran from our current wars. Frequently he yells out something at any passerby. Today it … Continue reading →

A lot of nonsense circulating in our democracy is actually based on books. Don Quixote set out on his journey of lunatic heroism because of having read too much fiction and having absorbed it as fact. Of course, Sancho Panza, … Continue reading →