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August 22, 2018
The title of this post was first used this week, as far as one can determine, by commentator Eugene Robinson. It is a reply to the foolish pronouncement of a Trump attorney who bellowed that “Truth is NOT Truth”. An underlying foundation of mediation process is that truth must prevail. A party must be truthful […]
August 4, 2018
On July 30, 2018, Gerald F. Seib wrote an article for the WSJ on how leaders of the Duluth community had decided to temper the nasty tone of some local political discussions. Nastiness often prevailed when political issues became hotly contested. The leaders developed a nine-point program called “Speak Your Peace: The Civility Project”. As […]
August 4, 2018
Attorney Lisa Vance (LisaVanceLaw.com/blog)recently posted an article on her blogsite regarding family-offered opinions about why a person should get divorced. She cites an instance where an adult child advocated that her parent get divorced so the child could have an easier path to a potential inheritance. Less mundane reasons such as person likes and dislikes […]
June 30, 2018
Hannah Arendt, A German-born philosopher of Jewish heritage, created the term “banality of evil” to describe Holocaust-era activities. It was her way of explaining how common-place activities (i.e. banal acts) could lead to monstrous results. In the July-August issue of Smithsonian magazine, Joshua Levine refer to common-place “goodness” and its designation as the “banality of […]
August 26, 2018
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