seanessay.com Andy W: “In the future, everyone will be voting for fifteen seconds… from the comfort of their home!” Wouldn’t that be cool, like Star Trek, if digital-age folks could vote from home? But then again, someone from a patriarchal planet might coerce his wife’s vote. I enjoy voting in person—yesterday I went to the […]
Facing the Truth, With Fearful Awareness
seanessay.com We all have strengths and weaknesses to be aware of. As for strengths, I remember folks in a fitness class I taught being delighted and telling me that I had a good sense of how fit they were: I had to know my own strength. Once I was hiking as part of my role […]
Inviting and Welcoming Russian Athletes
seanessay.com “Hey sports fans, how ‘bout them Ukrainians?”… Underneath the big money-devouring questions of whether we should act quickly to help Ukraine, including “Should we manufacture ammunition?” are the small inexpensive questions about athletes on the world stage. Some say Russians should be allowed among the rest of us at international events provided they compete […]
New Ethics and Old Cluster Bombs
seanessay.com My main interest is ethics—what does little old me know about cluster bombs? This week many groups and governments, including Canada, have spoken out against the US giving them to Ukraine. I know that many nations—but not Russia, US and Ukraine—have banned them. Because cluster bombs break into a cluster of smaller bombs that […]
Exciting Government Book
seanessay.com I found an exciting book, The Fifth Risk, about the U.S. federal government, by the same guy who wrote Moneyball (now a movie with Brad Pitt) The Blind Side (Sandra Bullock) The Big Short, exposing the 2008 Wall Street global meltdown (Brad Pitt again) and The Flashboys. (movie rights acquired) This one exposed how […]
Being Judged at the Imperial War Museum
seanessay.com …Fear of the very existence of honest Ukraine impelled violence, for a dictator’s lies always require violence to exist, just as violence always requires lies to exist…From ideas of Solzhenitsyn (Sean Crawford ) A young man asked me, “Do you work here?” (My rucksack and tourist hat were in a locker) I answered “No, but try […]