I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.
The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.
We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
In a nutshell, a strong U.S. presence in Iraq sends a signal that any violent fundamentalists in the region will have to answer to the United States.
In other words, we must move beyond our own egocentric and vain rituals in order to discover the truly spiritual possibilities of life.
I fear that we have been so conditioned not to disparage the practices of other cultures, that we ignore this evil microbe among us.