Lance Armstrong: Cheater or Hero?

Lance Armstrong: Cheater or Hero?

He won the Tour de France a record seven times. Yet his name is missing from the record books because he “cheated.” He used something called “performance enhancing drugs.” What a farce. Let’s break it down. When your body is the tool of...

For the Good of The Game

When Arizona Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson was asked today for his thoughts on the suspension of Melky Cabrera for testing-positive for PEDs, Gibson said that apparently the current standards for punishment were not a strong enough deterrent to cheating. Then he...
Is Lying Necessary?

Is Lying Necessary?

Brad said this morning that he wants to write a book called “Lie!”. He realized that – with few exceptions – everyone, everywhere lies all the time about almost everything. We know that the government lies to us, our employers lie to us, our...

Never Apologize

There are two types of apologies: An apology for what you did An apology for what you are Sometimes the first type of apology is appropriate. Sometimes what you did was wrong, or thoughtless or self-indulgent and it hurt someone. You could have chosen differently. But...
Tempus Fugit – Unobserved

Tempus Fugit – Unobserved

I used to tell my children as they practiced their daily jam writing – I insisted that they practice writing in spite of their resistance – that you often do not know what you are thinking until you start writing.  Around the time of my divorce, I stopped...

You Can’t Fight City Hall

“You can’t fight city hall.” The reason is as irritating as it is surprising. Neither “Governments” nor “Corporations” exist anywhere but in the imagination.  Governments and Corporations are artificial entities that exist...