Category Archives: Sustainability

Is “the good doctor” candid?

Posted on October 14, 2017 by hessd

You can ask questions so that they are easy or so that they are hard. This one seems hard to me. [1] The doctor—the titular doctor in the new ABC series, The Good Doctor—is a very young man. Also autistic. … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Society, Sustainability, Uncategorized | Tagged autism and candor, cleaning up the mess, playing our parts, The Good Doctor, truth and candor | Leave a comment

Albert Peterson’s Dilemma

Posted on September 28, 2017 by hessd

I want to introduce to you today a fictional businessman, Albert Peterson. [1] Peterson is a good guy in a bad situation. Peterson is the head of Personnel for a U. S. manufacturing firm, engaged in vicious competition with other … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Society, Sustainability | Tagged economic infrastructure, good character, limiting labor costs, living wage jobs, marriage as a privilege | Leave a comment

The Star Spangled Banner as a Commons

Posted on September 25, 2017 by hessd

ill you all rise, please, and join us in the singing our our national anthem?” It doesn’t sound all that hard, does it? But, as everyone knows by now, it can be made extremely difficult and we have done that. … Continue reading →

Posted in Living My Life, Sustainability | Tagged Garrett Hardin, His Tweetness, ritual as a commons, The NFL | 4 Comments

With malice toward none

Posted on August 18, 2017 by hessd

WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE WITH CHARITY FOR ALL WITH FIRMNESS IN THE RIGHT AS GOD GIVES US TO SEE THE RIGHT LET US STRIVE ON TO FINISH THE WORK WE ARE IN TO BIND UP THE NATION’S WOUNDS TO CARE … Continue reading →

Posted in Political Psychology, Society, Sustainability | Tagged A Common Southern Narrative, A slavery-centered narrative, Abraham Lincoln, Confederate patriots, the Radical Republicans | Leave a comment

Political Lies and Political Liars

Posted on August 9, 2017 by hessd

Lord Alexander Chung-sik Finkle-McGraw is instructing John Percival Hackworth, a relatively new member of the New Victorians, on “hypocrisy.” Is hypocrisy a big deal, Finkle-McGraw wants to know, or is it the way it was back at the end of … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Political Psychology, Politics, Sustainability | Tagged candidates as liars, President Trump, the pep rally setting of politics, tribal politics, voters as enablers | Leave a comment

A woman’s right to choose her own feminism

Posted on June 7, 2017 by hessd

In Season 3, Episode 14 of The West Wing (Night Five), a temp named Celia Walton is working in the White House. Celia is what I think I am going to call a Hillary Clinton “kind” of feminist [1] She … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Politics, Sustainability | Tagged feminism as a movement, feminism as a personal style, lipstick feminism, The West Wing, workplace feminism | Leave a comment

Tolerance as position and direction

Posted on June 6, 2017 by hessd

Tolerance June 6 I want you to picture a scene in which a really dumb guy is having his picture taken at the edge of the cliffs of Moher. “I can frame this picture better,” says the picture taker (probably a … Continue reading →

Posted in Living My Life, Sustainability, Words | Tagged differences as a burden, differences as a strength, direction v. location, intolerance, tolerance | Leave a comment