Peace in the Valley.

If there's one thing I've gleaned from living life over the years: steer clear of angry, jealous people. Those who have everything they can get their hands on, but still something is lacking.* (a spiritual base perhaps? a failure to "Know Thyself" ?) When they want to diss you for being honest, or make untrue accusations because of some purported position of power ... best to just walk away and let them marinate in their own juices.

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*These are the type of people who compete, always having to do you one better. Seems they can't set their own standards, but are content to always just finish one up on the next guy: living their life on the curve, so to speak. I think you see this in our current leadership class: damn the group as a whole, so long as I'm rising to the top...



On a similar note, we here at Subsumed note Sen. Kennedy's passing, and hope for peace for the family. Let's also hope the days of Philanthropists-as-Senators, are also long past. My objection to Sen. Kennedy's politics was not so much his benevolent instincts, but the fact that one-size-fits-all legislation has proven to be inefficient, many times ineffective, and a poor strategy for fulfilling those noble societal impulses. Better if those sentiments were backed by more practical strategies for implementation -- but perhaps that's what you get when the philanthropic elite craft policies for a practical world that they really have very little knowledge of ...

RIP, as I said. Let's remember the desire to work toward a better, more fair and competitive tomorrow, where opportunities truly are open to more people, based on their drive, innate abilities, and work ethics. That's true power to shape the future, not what you profess behind closed doors and legislate into being. It's rarely that easy, again tidbit learned in my life gleanings...