WR's blog

We might explode if we stopped, listened, looked at the world as if for the first time--heard the sounds, saw the sights, and began to question what these things we see and hear are all about.

Honesty is the revelation of hearts and minds: it is the expression of thoughts and feelings without reservation or distortion. In honest communication, the life within is made public, put on view for others to see. The honest person is 'transparent': the outer aspect of the person is congruent with--a true representation of--the person's mental and emotional state.

Some people have said, and have meant it, "I wish I had never been born." Aside from how this sentiment could, in the extreme, prompt a further downward slide toward depression and even suicide, the chief problem with admitting this is the hurt it could cause the people who hear it.

BlackBerry offers a couple of services that trouble officials in India: the BlackBerry Messenger Service (BMS) and the BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES). The government of India wants access, by the end of this month, to the information transmitted through these services. The reason for concern is that the encryption used in BMS and BES is so strong that authorities cannot readily crack it.

As we mature, we gain in our awareness of, and to some extent our ability to manage, two features of human life: complexity and uncertainty. But we can never avoid them entirely, nor can we ever control them completely.

Legislators are mostly about telling people what to do. And in our republic we call on legislators to influence--often to control--the actions of fellow citizens. But we also live by principles, so that the considerable demands we make on others are not expressions of prejudice, mere whim, or the worst of our impulses.

There are several arguments against same-sex marriage, but for the most part, the counter-arguments are better.

All American politicians will say that the American worker can compete with any worker in the world. They can make a good case with regard to the skill, motivation and endurance of our labor force. But we must admit that in many cases American workers cannot compete with foreign laborers with regard to pay. American workers cannot maintain the American minimum standard of living while earning $2, $3 or $4 an hour. The difference in the cost of labor is a major reason why many jobs have gone overseas.