[November 13, 2025] Occasionally it’s good to take a break from the challenge of the study of leadership. Today I’m providing my personal list of favorite war movies … those that made an impression on me when I saw them. Yes, they’re English movies so the list doesn’t include some great, non-English movies. For some reason these movies… Read More »
[November 10, 2025] In a brutally honest email sent to the “Penn community” declared that the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education is a “dogshit and elitist institution” and that they “hire and admit morons.” As to be expected in damage control, Penn administrators immediately labeled the email as fraudulent. I got a laugh out of it.… Read More »
[November 9, 2025] Leadership is certainly not easy, but no one who has taken such a position does so with the intent to do a bad job of it. Poor leadership – that can be described as being ineffective – is also not something that comes about due to a single error or bad decision but from a… Read More »
[November 4, 2025] In Germany during the post World War I era, a number of Nazi propaganda films were produced to blame Jews for the poor condition of the German peoples. The film is roughly an hour long and worth watching (with translation to English) with a link here. The 1940 Nazi film, Der Ewige Jude [The Eternal… Read More »
[November 3, 2025] Since the late 1990s, feminist Dr. Camilla Paglia has been one of the leading critics of feminism. She sees 3 main failures of modern feminism. This assertion that Paglia is critical of “modern” feminism stems from her outright rejection of the victim/oppressor narrative that dominates much of America’s feminist movement. Here are Camilia Paglia’s critique… Read More »
[November 2, 2025] Here I am, minding my own business, checking out with a dozen bagels when a young woman behind me appears with a nose ring. Automatically, I think of her as a whacko, mindless, nasty person. Was I stereotyping her? Yes. The stereotype was correct and her subsequent actions proved it. I was following what is… Read More »
[October 30, 2025] An American tradition, one that has historically distinguished the citizens of the United States from their European ancestors, is questioning their leadership. It is not a sign of disrespect but rather a sign of healthy debate about right versus wrong. Political, military, and business leaders are scrutinized for their decisions and personal conduct. I suggest… Read More »
[October 21, 2025] Every year, once a year in the 1950s, my family and I watched our black and white television and were thrilled to see the Walt Disney Animation Studio’s movie Pinocchio. I had no idea at the time that the movie was in color and no idea that I was learning a valuable lesson. The lesson… Read More »
[October 19, 2025] It’s been a few weeks since I posted a “Sunday Morning in Pictures” entry, so here it is. I get more views on these Sunday posts than on any other type. Does that tell us something about the people who “read” this blog? Insert smiley face here. Typically, my pictures include dogs, cats, and humorous… Read More »
[October 18, 2025] Sometimes you face a problem that seems impossible to solve. That is what happened to Railway Engineer Joseph Bazalgette. In the early 1800s, London was plagued by a disgusting and overwhelming issue. Human waste was everywhere: on the streets, leaking into basements, cesspits seeping through walls in people’s homes, and neighbors arguing over whose waste… Read More »