Today it is cold. I stopped to get gas for my car and the gas pumps were very slow and it took forever. I finally sat in the car and waited for the car to fill up with gas. I’m hardly ever cold and today it was cold. I figured I need to share this incredible insight with everyone.
The other day I saw a billboard about a controversial topic and the topic, at least to me, takes a backseat to the billboard which proclaimed that there is ‘no gray.’ Answers are black and white. I wish this was true. The older I get and the more life I have experienced, one thing I have learned is that there are considerably few black and white answers to questions. The world we live in is very, very gray. I wish this was not the case, but it really is. I suspect this was why Jesus was so adamant about not judging others. We really don’t know what we are talking about. Most of us learn this from better experience that we don’t know what we are talking about.
I watched some of Chuck Hagel’s testimony before the Senate. He was remarkably unimpressive. I suspect he’s competent and was simply unwilling to take a lot of the questions head on, but it was not really an impressive performance. The really sad thing was that a lot of the questions were softballs from supporters and pitbullish by those who do not like him. Senator John McCain’s insistence on a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer is not really relevant in a hearing. That is a legal tactic (which is a lousy tactic) in a court of law, but in a Senate hearing? No one distinguished himself or herself.
Mayor Ed Koch died. He was an amazing man. A truly amazing man. Koch was a truth teller in a profession of people who posture for a living. He was one of New York City’s greatest majors and his legacy will live on forever.
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