Free speech is free. You get to judge it’s value. In the interest of fair play and equal opportunity, Lopex will turn his attention to the “authenticity” of Obama’s heritage, I guess, or whatever the point of his riff was. In the same interest of transparency, democratic pundits are calling for Barack’s birth certificate, and […]
Category: education
Fleecing the sheep
How to find them , how to hypnotize them, how to shear them
The message of Hope and Change in Joplin?
Of all the things to emphasize to the high school graduates of a community that has experienced the outpouring of support from all around the state and nation, the President chooses these words: President Obama told teens who had survived an EF-5 tornado that they’d meet all sorts of nasty people in life, but […]
Family support on the doctoral journey
I formally began my journey to the doctorate of management four years ago when I finally had a chance to achieve lifelong goal of earning a terminal degree. It’s not the easiest thing in the world to start at age 50, but there were a number of personal and professional goals that I finally had […]
Advice on preparing for the defense
My good friend Tonya asked for some advice on preparing for her dissertation proposal defense. These were my thoughts on the dissertation defense (I misheard her). For the proposal defense, the focus is more on the procedural and methodological questions 🙂 They should ask you, and you should be prepared to give answers to these […]
Future Force in the news
A nice write-up in the Army Times on the Future Force game I designed for the Command & General Staff College. It was cool to see my family commenting in the discussion session. Related articles Congressional negotiators reach tentative deal on payroll tax cut, jobless aid … – Fox News (foxnews.com) Economic Growth Gives Lift […]
Budget cutting by reducing farm subsidies
I see liberal commentators like Cenk Uygur applauding the reduction of 280B from the proposed budget, as an end to corporate crony capitalism. As if that’s not going to have an effect on the price of food, which is a disproportionally higher percentage of the budgets for the poor than the rich. Cut 280B from […]
Buffet making money the old fashioned way
It’s not what you know, It’s knowing who butters your bread There is no correlation to Buffet’s public position on tax policy favoring Obama’s redistruibutionist policies
The importance of alone time: solitude and innovation
A long snippet, but it has important things to say about solitude, inquiry, creating new knowledge, innovation and scholarship: the importance of “alone time” from a thoughtful article Games, consultants Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister compared the work of more than 600 computer programmers at 92 companies. They found that people from the same […]
Patton in the California desert, and the best coffee I ever tasted
i just love that desert; i miss sitting in the dirt and making a little stove for coffee and going to hang out with the mechanics. thats the best coffee I ever tasted I like how simple Patton’s HQ and his entourage are. A dirt soldier at heart who understand war Related articles Desert training […]