Someone once said this about goals, ”Aim at nothing and you will be sure to hit it.” That’s a paraphrase from my memory. I did not look it up for attribution. The quote makes a good point. If you don’t have a goal in mind, a destination to reach, then any result will do. All …
I’ve heard God speak to me on a number of occasions. I’m not claiming to be unique in this. In fact, I don’t think anyone can have a genuine relationship with Him without hearing him speak directly. Now, I’ve never heard Him with my ears, unless it was when He used someone else’s voice. Most …
You are what you… It has been said that you are what you do…habitually. If that’s true, what are you? I’m an early-rising, coffee-drinking, Beth-loving, blog-writing, compulsive-reading, tele-marketing, tv-watching, over-eating, guitar-playing, Gabriel Allon and Carolina Hurricanes fan. Some of those habits I’m pretty proud of. Others, not so much. A year ago even, my list …
As a quick follow-up to yesterday’s post on hot and cool media, I thought I’d share some of my opinions about music. I belong firmly in the camp of people who believe that MTV ruined music. Here’s why. Music is about sound and hearing and what happens in the brain when that’s going on. Studies …
Marshall McLuhan wrote a seminal work in 1964 called Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. In it, McLuhan posits that various media types (print, radio, television) affect society by the direct impact of the medium itself on the reader, listener, viewer, more than by the content portrayed. He coined the famous phrase, ”The medium is …
When my kids got old enough to play board games, we had a family tradition of playing Monopoly on New Year’s Eve. We would begin just after dinner time, maybe have a dessert of chocolate fondue while playing, and the kids and I would battle it out to see who would be the last Monopolist …
The final clause outlining the intended purpose of the Constitution (and the government it envisions) begins with the conjunction ”and”; writing, ”and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” The Preamble itself has no legally binding powers. It is sometimes referred to as ”the Enactment clause” as that statement of purpose for …
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There is nothing radical about Government acting for the Public Good The fifth stated purpose of Government of the United States as listed by the framers of the Constitution is ”to Promote the General Welfare”. There is much debate over the meaning and scope of this clause. It is ambiguous, and frustratingly ”open-ended”. The historic …
The first declared responsibility of the Federal Government The next two clauses in the Preamble set the stage for traditional subjects of dispute between conservatives and progressives in terms of the priority to be emphasized by the Federal Government. The framers of the Constitution, as the framers of a building, worked in careful sequence, line …
When politicians play a zero-sum game, pitting Americans against one another, hoping one side wins, while the other loses, we ALL lose. That is the opposite of Domestic Tranquility.
