My little Mac App Notenik falls into the general category of note-taking software.
And it certainly lacks many of the features to be found in a sophisticated outlining app such as OmniOutliner.
And creating any kind of outliner was never any part of my original intent when starting out to…
My first year at Michigan, 1969, was also Bo Schembechler’s first year coaching football on that campus.
By that time, the two rival schools had been competing on the college gridiron for well over half a century.
The year before, in 1968, Ohio State had beaten Michigan by a score…
Dedicated in memoriam to my peerless friend Richard Glatzer.
My wife and I were going through some old papers recently, when we came across my LSAT results from 1973. …
I think there are a few very broad lessons we Americans can learn from the rapid fall of the Afghan government over the last few days.
The view from those doing the work on the ground is necessarily different from the more lofty view of those in charge. But when…
All of us humans, both individually and collectively, have to strike some reasonable balance between doing what we’ve done before (safe but boring) and trying something new (exciting but risky).
And when considering these two alternatives, of course, doing what we’ve done before generally wins. Because we know that what’s…
Sometimes I find myself making good headway through a book, only to be suddenly stopped in my tracks by a particular insight that suggests an entirely new way of thinking about a problem.
And then on certain inspired occasions I find my thoughts ricocheting from one such idea to another…
I’ve been making the case lately that the Republican Party is in decline, and needs to reinvent itself.
But perhaps something even more radical is needed.
For when we look at the current state of our two-party system in the US, nothing about it makes any sense.
Here in Seattle…
I recently wrote a piece offering Some Hard-Won Wisdom Concerning Cults. And I’ve written a couple of pieces recently questioning the direction of the current Republican Party. (See “The Decline of the Republican Party — First Gradually and then Suddenly” and “Where, Exactly, Are the Republicans Headed?”.)
And so, today…
As someone who once belonged to an organization later determined to be a cult, I can tell you that the warning signs are not always obvious.
The members of the group I belonged to weren’t living inside a walled compound, or even residing together at all. We weren’t hiding in…
Let’s first establish a little context.
