Posted in Politics on Jan 24th, 2009 No Comments »
I’m a conservative who is not altogether thrilled that Obama is our new president. However, it is apparent to me that many on the conservative side simply don’t understand just how ambitious president Obama is or where he is trying to take us.
This became obvious on reading a recent column (see here) on Obama’s inaugural [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Just before Christmas, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a column entitled, Bleeding Heart TightWads, where he cited research showing that while “liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest…, yet when it comes to individual contributions to charitable causes, liberals are cheapskates”. Kristof berated his fellow liberals [...]
Posted in Faith on Jan 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
I happened to hear a few minutes of a discussion on NPR last weekend where they were asking what wisdom is, and how does it differ from simply being smart. I’ve long liked this topic as it is one of those things that is quite difficult to define well.
Our experience tells us that there are [...]
Posted in Life on Jan 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve not posted here in some time. I left off during a family crisis that caused us to change our plans on relocating to San Jose. Instead, back in June, I accepted an offer at a startup company here in Tucson – a job which was started by my former boss and basically continues the [...]
