October, 2009 Civic Virtue: Signs of Life in an Age of Low Expectations Thank you for inviting me here today. I get good vibes from this room. My wife and I had our wedding reception here a few years ago. Congratulations for keeping Arpad in the money. I spent 40 years in […]
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May, 2010 It took me many years to learn I couldn’t make deals with God. It had worked pretty well throughout my teen and young adult years. God got me into the college I wanted and convinced my parents that I was worth the room and board my older brother somehow didn’t merit. […]
March, 2009 In his idea known as the “Golden Mean”, Aristotle pointed out that every virtue has the potential for becoming a vice if we do not practice it to an exact degree. A virtue like courage, for instance, quickly becomes a vice when we take it to an extreme. We call excessive […]
July, 2010 The bumper sticker in front of me was troubling on so many levels. I haven’t been able to shake either the contradictory emotions I felt or my need to respond somehow. “My son is a soldier in Iraq. Enjoy your freedom” How frightening it must be to know […]