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Events are About to Catch Up with Trump and Company. History will Not be Kind.
In a sense, many of us alive today have been here before. There came a time in Watergate that the weight of evidence and history would no longer be denied. It was an amazing thing to observe. Two things stood out in particular.
One, when the time came, a handful of people made a difference. In the right place and with the right amount of authority, they stood up and did the right thing.
This is WAY Beyond Your Facebook Account
By now, we all know about the Russian interference in our elections. Let’s not kid around by calling it meddling. This is an attack of the most fundamental nature.
But an important element of this aggression has gotten lost in the background for many of us. I am referring to the targeting of our electronic infrastructure writ large.
Russia has been probing our utilities infrastructure. They are trying to understand its connectivity and to find its vulnerabilities. This would make sense if one wanted to have a standby capability to disrupt a modern society.
Join the discussion at: Worried About Electronic Vulnerability? You Should Be – A Lot
Welcome to Benghazi II. The sequel was as bad as the original, maybe worse. One thing about this one definitely was worse.
In case you somehow missed it, there was a circus in town last week. The combined House Judiciary and Oversight Committees conducted a “hearing” (or something…). Much was written while the hearing went on, into the early evening, and much immediately after. I decided to let things marinate a bit and see what I thought about all this with a little time for reflection.
To be fair, I did not watch gavel to gavel coverage.
Join the discussion at: The Congressional Circus was in Town Last Thursday
Part of our Hey! Look at That! Technology series
Drones (or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles – UAVs) are a prime example of what often happens with developing technologies.
There are exceptions of course.
Join the discussion at: The Unforeseen Consequences and Untapped Potential of Drones
Scott Pruitt is gone, finally. A lot of people lost bets on this one, figuring about 10 ethics investigations would be his end.It took half again as many. This might be a good time to think about what – or in whom- we invest our support.
There are people who support the policies that Pruitt & Company purveyed. Fair enough; people can argue policy with passion and substance. Challenge reasoning and call out facts from opinions. Anything less would be downright Un-American.
Some also defend Pruitt and others whose conduct or performance fall short.
Join the discussion at: The Pruitt Syndrome – What Do You Value?
In every period of history, people living at that time feel “We have never had so many challenges.” We are no different today – many of us have that exact feeling right now.
We have had great divisions in our past (we did have a civil war, after all). Still, one could make the case that critical factors are now coming to bear in dangerous ways.
It feels as though we as a nation are standing on a piece of ground surrounded by four mighty “rivers.” Rivers are powerful and full of potential to nourish, clean,
Join the discussion at: We Stand With Four Rivers All Around Us – Sink or Swim, America?
In the midst of justifiable gloom, there is no small amount of good news in the land.
Some lessons clearly jump out – and some old ones are reinforced
There is a key phrase in the title above – “so far.” This sorry saga is far from over; some hard lessons are surely to come for just about everyone. But some useful lessons have already arrived. Let’s look at a few of them.
Join the discussion at: What Have We Learned – So Far – from the Zero Tolerance Policy?
The Middle East Showed Me a Window into America That I Did Not Wish to Look Through.
Some years ago, I had the opportunity to travel throughout most of Israel, and with a bit of deliberate violation of the strictures of my passport, some areas of Lebanon under Hezbollah control.
I was with an international group of military officers, not a US group, and so I travelled pretty much a different path than most American tourists.
I went through the myriad of checkpoints, wandered through Arab neighborhoods, spoke at length with Israelis and Palestinians.
