I’ve been trying to restrict my writing on the blog until I could clarify the research topics and religious discussions I want to address on my blog. I cannot resist, however, the need to say at least a few sentences about Donovan McNabb’s comments recently remarking that “African-American quarterbacks are under greater scrutiny” than other…
Category: leadership
#47
As I’m reading a Washington post opinion article about Vice-President Gore, my interest in his new book, The Assault on Reason, becomes increasingly piqued. There is one thing Milbank’s opinion that annoys me intensely: the notion that the American public cannot vote for someone smarter than they are… Now, Milbank doesn’t quite say it like…
#46: the all A-Rod team…
ok, so the concept of the all A-Rod team is not my own. i heard it first from J-dub and C-note on ESPN Pittsburgh Sports Radio 1250. what is the all A-Rod team? well, A-Rod is best known for his performances being consonant with his talent level ONLY WHEN IT DOESN’T MATTER MOST. or, a…
nyc congestion pricing
michael bloomberg’s idea, to charge $8 to travel into downtown manhattan during peak travel hours, is one of the greatest american transit advances i’ve heard of… my impression of my fellow citizens is that we feel like we shouldn’t pay a premium for wasting precious fossil-fuel resources, consuming massive amounts of food, and otherwise titillating…
a democratic paradox
“Everybody was against us from the beginning, and now we have no choice but to fight,” [Ibrahim Hassan Addou] said. “What I don’t understand is why the whole world is trying to throw its weight behind a government that has been totally rejected by its own people.” This quote can be found on the story…
get the picture? no, really, go get it!
I recently heard in a professional development seminar (Millie Myers, Teaching Professor of Business Management Communication) that communication is difficult because most people don’t envision how their message appears to those who hear it. They fail to understand that the meaning of any communication effectively lies with the receiver, not with the sender. I wonder…
#26: stop the madness!
I was reading in my Sage RSS reader and noticed an article in Grist’s Muckracker pages about senate races environmentalists should pay attention to. You can find it here. Reading through this led me to a point of contention I’ve had with our leaders, but especially with the advent of the Bush administration. Today, I…
do we have a plan B? or, wasn’t this the reason for plan A?
These words quickly come to mind when I consider the words of Frances Cairncross, President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. She is expected to tell delegates at their annual festival that even maximal deployment of the best technology cannot stop climate change. In my opinion, this is certainly true. Considering historical…
absent vision… languishing people
As I was walking through Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill Barnes and Noble with one of my favorite professors, the one and only William Massey, I was introduced to the phenomenon of mathematics novels, memoirs, theses, and literature that wasn’t academic textbooks or journals. I ended up buying a book with a title I feel resonates with…
Diary of Jay-Z: Water for Life
“Jigga What??!? Jigga Who?!?” This is what some of the UN administrators must have been saying when UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan informed them that they would be working with Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter in the global fight to provide clean drinking water to the almost two billion people who lack consistent access to it. Carter, Def…