Force as a governing philosophy, the death throws

It's ironic, isn't it?

That it is ordinary students and ordinary people in Iran, a country that really believes in force as a governing philosophy and practices it more brutally and without conscience than most governments and countries in the world that are making the most courageous and open challenges to this ugliness?

Iran cracks down on dissent in universities

That it is Americans and activists, political leaders, and other citizens of freer and more comfortable liberal democracies who are rationalizing force as a governing philosophy most publicly, right now?

Goes to show.

Progress has not a damn thing to do with power. To the contrary, progress is when people find the courage to stand up to overwhelming shows of force for the cause of freedom.

This philosophy needs to die for good. The 20th century, and really most of world history, is one long indictment of this philosophy in all of its variants.

And it is people thousands of miles away in a country unfamiliar with the ways of freedom and more honest democracy who are demonstrating for the rest of us what courage really looks like.

And if we aren't going to lead, the least we can do is have the decency to follow. Or get out of the way.

And offer support to those with that kind of courage, even if we struggle to find it within ourselves.

My favorite look

Am I the only man who thinks that women look most attractive when they feel genuinely loved?



And when they have genuine love to offer?

When they can trust that love? And when they can trust the men who offer it?

I want a woman who can trust me enough to have that look for the rest of her life.

I love seeing a woman at ease with herself and with life.



My number one job in life is to make it real.

For everyone in my life. As much as humanly possible. But especially for the woman in my life.

Because I love that look.

When a woman loves without hesitation.

Because she can trust the man she loves.

And trusts her own heart enough to love him back unconditionally.

My favorite look.

Final sign of the impending apocalypse

It's official. We're all going to hell.



Hope everyone brought their sunscreen.