Disturbing story, amazing response

Yesterday I was extremely depressed after reading the article about the NY bus monitor who was bullied to tears by students. As if reading about it isn’t bad enough, there the entire attack was caught on camera & uploaded to YouTube.

I heard about this story for the first time yesterday morning… and it was hardly in the national news at all. A fund for the bus monitor, Karen Klein, had just been started and had just reached the $5,000 goal.

I woke up this morning to see this story on CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, and all other major news outlets. And that vacation find for Karen? As of right now, it’s at $146,847. The support for this woman has exploded over the past 24 hours. It gives me chills just thinking about it.

Below I’ve pasted a CNN article about the bullying, the outcry, and the outpouring of support. You can find the video on any news website… but I am not going to post it because it was just too hard for me to watch.

Middle schoolers bully bus monitor, 68, with stream of profanity, jeers

By Faith Karimi, CNN

(CNN) — A profanity-laced video of middle school students in upstate New York verbally abusing a bus monitor is sparking an outpouring of support as strangers worldwide rally to her side.

Students taunted Karen Klein, 68, with a stream of profanity, insults, jeers and physical ridicule. Some boys demand to know her address, saying they want to come to her house to perform sexual acts and steal from her. Another said, “you’re so fat.”

One comment from a boy aboard the bus was especially painful. He told her that she does not have family because “they all killed themselves because they didn’t want to be near you.” Klein’s oldest son took his own life 10 years ago, according to CNN affiliate WHAM.

The bullying continues unabated for about 10 minutes in the video, reducing Klein to tears as a giggling student jabs her arm with a book. Recorded by a student Monday with a cell phone camera, the brazen example of bullying went viral and spurred international outrage.

The incident occurred in Greece, New York, near Rochester. Klein is a bus monitor for the Greece Central School District and the harassers hail from the Greece Athena Middle School, media reports said.

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Klein described her tormenters “regular, normal kids” and “one on one, they’re OK.”

“Just don’t get a bunch of them together. That’s when the trouble starts,” she said.

As the intimidation unfolded, she said, she tried her best to disregard the harassment and didn’t hear everything that was uttered. But she said the hazing hurt deeply. At one point, she said, she told two children, “I am a person too. I shouldn’t be treated this way.”

Klein told WHAM that she doesn’t know if bullies can be charged. But, she said, “they should have some form of punishment.”

CNN attempts to reach all parties involved Wednesday were unsuccessful.

The video prompted an outpouring of support and a fundraiser by an international crowd funding site that had gathered more than $100,000 by early Thursday.

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“Let’s give Karen a vacation of a lifetime. Let’s show her the power of the internets and how kind and generous people can be,” the fundraiser’s organizer said on the website. The organizer did not respond to CNN requests for comment on the website.

The school district said its bullying team and the local police are conducting an investigation.

“We have discovered other similar videos on YouTube and are working to identify all of the students involved,” the school district said in a statement.

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It did not elaborate on whether the additional videos are related to Klein’s case.

“While we cannot comment on specific student discipline, we can say that students found to be involved will face strong disciplinary action,” the school district said.

The students are minors, according to the school district. CNN does not name minors involved in alleged crimes unless they are charged as adults.

Officials involved in the investigation will hold a news conference Thursday.

Klein said she hopes the spectacle “might help other people.” And, she said, she hopes that these children “get their share of someone bullying them.”

“I hope what goes around comes around,” she said.

I’ve seen this movie before…

…Literally.

Runaway stroller in real life:

Runaway stroller in reel life:

A must-read article about the toxic chemicals in our everyday products:

Are toxic chemicals putting your family at risk?

By Frank R. Lautenberg, Special to CNN

Editor’s note: Frank R. Lautenberg is a Democratic senator from New Jersey.

(CNN) — Imagine if every time you went to the pharmacy, shopping for medications was a complete guessing game. What if drug makers weren’t required to disclose ingredients in their products or prove their safety, leaving you without a way to determine whether what you’re buying is safe for you and your family? You would live in fear that the medicine you purchased to make your child feel better could actually harm them.

It’s a frightening scenario, and one that we would never accept.

Yet, because of our outdated and broken toxic chemicals law, that is precisely the situation with the consumer products we use every day. These products — from baby bottles and shampoo to car seats and sofas — contain tens of thousands of untested chemicals.

Last week, I joined with hundreds of moms from across the country to sound the alarm and call on Congress to fix this broken law. These parents came to Washington because they’re worried that the chemicals found in these ordinary products are putting their families’ health at risk.

They’re right to worry, because in recent studies, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 212 industrial chemicals — including six cancer-causing chemicals — coursing through Americans’ bodies. In essence, the American public has become a living, breathing repository for toxic chemical substances.

These chemicals have been linked to numerous diseases. Studies show as much as 5% of childhood cancers, 10% of neurobehavioral disorders and 30% of childhood asthma cases are associated with hazardous chemicals.

The existing law that regulates chemical safety, the Toxic Substances Control Act, was written in the 1970s and is ineffective and outdated.

In nearly 35 years, it has allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to require testing of only 200 of the more than 80,000 chemicals in its inventory. What’s more, EPA has been able to ban only five substances. The law is so broken that when EPA tried to ban uses of asbestos, a known cancer-causing chemical, its rules were overturned in court.

This status quo is dangerous and unacceptable.

That’s why I’ve introduced a bill called the Safe Chemicals Act, which simply requires that chemical makers prove their chemicals are safe before they end up in our products and bodies. It would ensure that chemicals are tested and that those deemed dangerous are taken off the market.

But sadly, some chemical companies and their lobbyists are fighting reform at every turn.

Just recently, the Chicago Tribune exposed a concerted effort by some chemical companies to use dirty tricks and junk science to mislead the public about the dangers of their products. The report detailed how industry bankrolled experts who testified with fake stories, all in an effort to protect the health of their profits instead of the health of our families and children.

They’ve specifically fought to protect flame retardant chemicals such as chlorinated Tris, which is so dangerous that companies voluntarily stopped using it in children’s pajamas more than 30 years ago.

But while scientists have warned us about chemicals such as chlorinated Tris since the 1970s, they continue to be used in products all around us, including furniture, cribs, mattresses and high-chair cushions.

Now, let’s be clear: The Safe Chemicals Act is not an attack on chemicals. Chemicals are used in hundreds of useful products, and most of the thousands of chemicals we use everyday are safe. But we need to be able to separate the safe from the dangerous. Under our current law, we can’t do that. That’s what this bill fixes.

The chemical industry’s lobbyists argue that the cost of testing all these chemicals would be too high. But what is the cost of our children’s health?

For three years, I’ve invited input from all sides of this issue, including the chemical industry. But despite claims of interest in reform, industry lobbyists are refusing to offer concrete suggestions and trying to run out the clock on our efforts.

We cannot accept inaction any longer. It is time to come together to finally fix this law and protect our families from toxic chemicals once and for all.

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Want to know just how toxic your body wash is? Or how many carcinogens you’re applying along with that moisturizer? Visit this site (EWG’s Cosmetics Database) to find out.  

Ahh, nothing more inspirational than a pastor spewing hate

(Sarcasm. Obvi.)

Video of North Carolina pastor’s plan to ‘get rid of’ gays goes viral

By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor

(CNN) – Video of a North Carolina pastor preaching that gays and lesbians should be rounded up inside an electric fence is going viral on the Internet, two weeks after North Carolina passed a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and President Barack Obama voiced personal support for legalizing such marriages.

“I figured a way out, a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers, but I couldn’t get it past the Congress,” Pastor Charles L. Worley can be seen telling his Providence Road Baptist Church congregation in the video, which had more than 250,000 YouTube views by Tuesday.

“Build a great big, large fence – 50 or a 100 miles long – and put all the lesbians in there,” Worley went on to say in his May 13 sermon at his Maiden, North Carolina, church. “Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals, and have that fence electrified so they can’t get out. Feed them. And you know in a few years, they’ll die out. You know why? They can’t reproduce.”

The video had initially been posted on Providence Road’s website but was recently taken down, according to CNN affiliate WBTV-TV in Charlotte.

The phone line at Worley’s church was busy on Monday night and Tuesday morning, as was Worley’s home number on Tuesday morning.

The church’s website was down Tuesday morning, but it had described the house of worship as fundamentalist, meaning it represents a Baptist tradition that’s more conservative than the Southern Baptists.

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Worley’s sermon was posted on YouTube by a group called Catawba Valley Citizens Against Hate, which is organizing a protest at the Providence Road Baptist Church on Sunday.

Addressing his congregation last Sunday, Worley referred to his earlier controversial sermon.

“I talked a little bit, I believe it was last Sunday, on the homosexual lifestyle, and there was a whole lot of people who didn’t like what I said,” Worley told his congregation Sunday, according to WBTV. “I want to read it out of the Bible, and then we’ll go from there.”

“Listen, all of the Sodomites, the lesbians, and all of the … what’s that word? Gays – I didn’t wanna say ‘queers’ – that say we don’t love you, I love you more than you love yourself,” Worley said, according to WBTV. “I’m praying for you to be saved.”

Worley’s initial sermon was partly framed as a response to Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, which he made in a TV interview a day after North Carolina voters passed a state constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of such marriages and other types of gay unions.

K, I’ve got a couple questions.

A) Is North Carolina looking to become the most hated state ever? Or are the pastors over there just not learn from their mistakes for some reason? (Please refer back to this gem) I believe Einstein once said, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” This is leading me to believe that all North Carolina pastors may be insane.

B) I am a Christian. I believe that Christians should love. Christians should be open minded. Christians should not judge. What is with these “Christians” that preach hate and violence?? That just isn’t how it works. Just because you’re in the garage, that doesn’t make you a car. Same goes for a church. You spend all your time in a church? Good for you. That doesn’t make you a good Christian.

C) This isn’t a question, but I don’t care. I’m pretty sure that talking about killing off and electrocuting people because their lifestyle is different than yours is wrong. It actually reminds me of this thing in the past… it was called the Holocaust? Something in this pastor’s life must not be quite right at the moment — at least that’s what I can gather from his hateful speech. If he was a happy camper, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t be making such disgusting comments about others.

Have fun with this media field day, Pastor Worley. Thanks for making Christians out to be hateful and judgmental – we sure do appreciate it.

Former CNN exec cited for putting poop in neighbors mailbox | ajc.com

Way to rep my alma mater, you weirdo.

Former CNN exec cited for putting poop in neighbors mailbox  | ajc.com.

Honesty: Is it the best policy?

Résumé padding: inconsequential or inexcusable?

By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN

(CNN) — It may sound crazy. Why would a high-ranking executive lie about his or her credentials, especially now, when all it takes is a quick phone call or Internet search to verify information?

Yet it happens more often than you might think. From a white lie about time spent as a customer service rep to a whopper about earning an MBA, résumé padding occurs regularly across industries, experts say. In a 2010 survey of 1,818 organizations, 69% reported catching a job candidate lying on his or her résumé, according to employment screening service HireRight.

The most common lie on a résumé has to do with education, said Kim Isaacs, founder and director of ResumePower.com and Monster.com‘s résumé expert. The discovery that Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson does not have a bachelor’s degree in accounting and computer science (he has a bachelor of science degree in business administration, with a major in accounting) makes him the latest executive to be targeted for falsely claiming to have a degree.

Or, at least, a certain kind of degree.

In the wake of the allegation, made by shareholder firm Third Point, Yahoo removed all references to Thompson’s degree from his biography on its website and said the error “in no way alters that fact that Mr. Thompson is a highly qualified executive with a successful track record leading large consumer technology companies.” Yahoo’s board is reviewing the issue and will “make an appropriate disclosure to shareholders” when that inquiry is finished.

The incident has raised debate over whether the gaffe counts as inconsequential “fudging” or “exaggeration” of his credentials or a lie that casts a shadow over his long career.

Readers weigh in on résumé padding

Many in the tech industry, including Third Point, are demanding Thompson’s ouster. Others have spoken out on his behalf, calling upon the “Silicon Valley bloggerati” to stop picking on Thompson.

“Thompson has a degree in accounting, not computer science, but frankly at this point in his career does it really matter what he studied as an undergraduate?” Newsweek technology editor Dan “Fake Steve Jobs” Lyons asked in a Daily Beast column.

“(Thompson is) 54 years old, has been CEO of PayPal, and before that held high positions at Inovant, a subsidiary of Visa, and Barclays Global Investors. He’s qualified to run Yahoo.”

CNNMoney: Yahoo may need to go back to the drawing board

Résumé “embellishments” among titans of industry have led to mixed results. Former RadioShack CEO Dave Edmondson resigned less than nine months after taking his post after the revelation that he did not have degrees in theology and psychology. On the other hand, Bausch & Lomb’s Ronald Zarrella offered to resign when it was discovered that he had not earned his MBA from NYU, as he’d claimed. The board did not accept his resignation, but he was forced to give up his bonus that year.

It’s not a phenomenon exclusive to Fortune 500 companies. Former Notre Dame football coach George O’Leary resigned after five days on the job when it came to light that he did not have a master’s in education from NYU or play football at the University of New Hampshire.

Résumé padding has become a point of increasing concern for companies big and small, prompting them to step up screening methods and background checks for job applicants, according to HireRight’s Employment Screening Benchmarking Report.

“Screening continues to be a heavily adopted practice by employers in order to protect their business from unnecessary risks, maintain compliance and avoid poor quality hires,” the report said. “Even where lies may not represent a huge loss to the employer, companies report that catching a candidate in an untruth undermines confidence and credibility.”

The 2010 survey found that 94% of respondents performed criminal checks, 70% performed identity and previous employment verification, and about half verified education and references.

Isaacs sees résumé padding with growing frequency in her role as a résumé adviser because of the fluctuating job market and high unemployment rates. People often omit months in the start and end dates of their last jobs to exaggerate periods of employment and minimize unemployment. They also exaggerate accomplishments, like raising sales from 15% to 25%, or take individual credit for a project that was accomplished through teamwork, she said. Inflating titles from receptionist to administrative assistant, for example, also occurs frequently, she said.

People see job postings for which they feel they have the right experience but not the requisite degree, prompting them to fabricate an extra line on their résumés, Isaacs said.

“People feel inadequate and that they have to do whatever it takes to get their foot in the door. It’s a combination of wanting to get an edge and jobs being limited due to the economy,” she said. “People see others getting ahead and think, ‘maybe it’s my résumé.’ The temptation arises from a desire to stay competitive.”

It comes at a high price, including eventually being found out or, for those with a guilty conscience, the constant fear of being found out, she said.

It’s easy to disparage Thompson, she said, but given the high incidence of résumé padding in general, people should use this opportunity to take a second look at their own résumés.

“He got caught, so he’s the obvious target. But it’s quite likely that many of the people who will talk about him have a similar lie on their résumés,” she said.

“Sell your benefits, the ones that reflect … why you’re perfect even though you don’t have the degree,” Isaacs suggested. “Armed with an excellent résumé, you’ll get your foot in the door, and there’ll be something that comes along that’s perfect for you, and you can start a job on honest footing, and it’s just better for everybody.”

Do you think Scott Thompson deserves a pass or should he be reprimanded? Let us know in the comments or tweet your thoughts to @CNNWriters!

Maybe I’m a Goody Two-Shoes, but I think that anyone who engages in “resume padding” is absolutely in the wrong and should be fired from their position. Character and integrity are two extremely important traits; blatantly lying to get ahead (whether it is on a resume or not) is inexcusable to me. I work hard at my current job and I worked hard at school and at my past internships — to think that I could possibly be looked over for a position because another candidate produced a fabricated resume? That wouldinfuriateme.

What has happened to honesty and hard work and playing by the rules to get ahead? To read that “69% [of organizations have] reported catching a job candidate lying on his or her résumé” is just saddening. But I’m going to continue to keep my chin up and believe that honesty is the best policy & everything will work itself out in the end. I, for one, continue to believe in the American Dream. Though I may be a recent college grad in one of the worst recessions in history, and though I have been discouraged by watching some of my peers get ahead by cutting corners and stepping on others, I still remain positive.

It sounds cheesy, but if you are like me, this article made you want to work even harder and made you want to continue to do things the right way in order to get ahead. So for all of you that actually work hard for a living, for those of you that do the right thing even though it may not be the easiest thing to do: I commend you. Just keep telling yourself that what goes around comes around, as I do, and continue to hold yourself up to the highest standard possible.

Really, really good article about workplace boredom

Sounds stupid, but wow is it dead-on.

Is workplace boredom ‘the new stress?’

By Rose Hoare, CNN

(CNN) — Boredom is an unlikely new frontier in workplace research. Commonly associated with goofing off, taking absurdly long lunch-breaks, and playing internet games on the sly, new studies suggest it’s something that affects high-performing employees as well as those in menial jobs.

Sandi Mann, a senior psychology lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, in England, says boredom is the second most commonly hidden workplace emotion, after anger, and believes modern workplaces are becoming more boring.

“Changes in legislation all the time leads to bureaucratic procedures that people find boring,” she says. “We seem to be in a culture of having meetings, which a lot of people find boring. There are a lot of automated systems now, so a lot of the things we do are quite remote. We have more people working night shifts, which are more boring because you’ve got fewer people to talk to.”

In addition, Mann feels that, as a society, we’re becoming less inclined to tolerate boredom. She says: “People have more of an expectation to be fulfilled by everything they do. Compare our grandparents’ generation: there wasn’t any desire to have self-actualization and to reach their potential. They didn’t go down the coal mines in order to be fulfilled.

“That attitude has changed. Now, we get people quite commonly quitting higher paid jobs for jobs that are lower paid but more satisfying.”

Despite its proliferation, Mann thinks there’s little awareness about boredom, which she deems “the new stress.”

“It’s as stressful as stress but, whereas stress management courses are 10 a penny, organizations are terrified to admit their workers might be bored,” she adds.

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Last year, Mark de Rond, from the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, spent six weeks studying military surgeons at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. He found that boredom had a destabilizing effect, even on otherwise high-performing individuals.

In his first week, de Rond saw 174 casualties arrive, observed 23 amputations and 134 hours of operating. A good proportion were local children. Although the work is mentally and emotionally demanding, the surgeons are “brutally effective,” he says.

“I don’t think I’ve seen teams more effective than when someone’s bleeding out in Bastion. It’s almost beautiful to watch. They’re so very composed; it’s so noise-free. The problem is when people don’t have anything to do,” says de Rond.

According to de Rond, although there are days when no casualties come in, because the surgeons are on call around the clock, they can never really relax. As they wait for helicopters to bring in casualties, they feel guilty for wishing for more work. They start to compete with each other, become critical of each other’s efforts, and become reflective about the futility of it all. “As they become unhappy, they become like big bears — you just don’t want to be around them,” de Rond says.

A study on the link between counterproductive work behavior and boredom by researchers at Montclair State University and University of South Florida identifies six ways bored employees might harm their organizations: by abusing others, by “production deviance” (purposely failing at tasks), sabotage, withdrawal, theft and horseplay. Of these, the most common is withdrawal (absence, lateness, taking long breaks) says the University of South Florida’s Paul Spector.

He and his co-researchers drew on studies that show that some people are more boredom-prone than others. These people are more likely to get angry, engage in risky driving, display aggression and hostility, and lack honesty and humility.

At the bottom of it all is resentment: “To some extent these behaviors can be the product of someone just getting back at the employer, blaming the employer for creating boring conditions, and trying to strike back,” Spector says.

He adds that there’s little correlation between workload and boredom. “You can be very busy and still be bored. And you could be distressed even though you’re not all that busy — if you just hate what you’re doing.”

De Rond has also seen a kind of “existential” boredom manifest in professional services firms. “That’s not a result of having nothing to do — they have nothing worthwhile to do.”

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The solution, according to de Rond, is “disarmingly straightforward.” “Provided everyone is capable, all you have to do is to give people something to care about more than themselves,” he says.

Bastion provides an example. “You’ve got casualties coming in who will die if you don’t do something quickly — that is more important than yourself, at that point. Teams work incredibly effectively when that happens,” he says.

To replicate this effect, leaders need to explain to teams “why what they do is important, who it matters to and why.” “It’s that that keeps a team focused,” de Rond says. “Otherwise it’s just work.”

De Rond also believes it’s necessary for workplaces to engineer a culture of “psychological safety” in which “it’s okay to ask questions.”

Allowing employees to air the doubts and anxieties that arise when they are bored is, he notes, “a very frightening thing” for organizations to do. “Most people would suspect that if you start questioning protocol, you then eat into morale.”

But in an environment of psychological safety, he theorizes, “what you should see is some of the vulnerability of the people involved. It’s where people can be okay with that, instead of being defensive about it. If anything, it should really boost morale.”

Great article by LZ Granderson concerning Trayvon Martin case

Justice, not revenge, for Trayvon

By LZ Granderson, CNN Contributor

Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) — As the rallies for Trayvon Martin grow, as the media coverage surrounding the tragedy deepens and as the calls for justice get louder, we all must remember one thing: Revenge and justice are not the same thing.

The $10,000 bounty issued by the New Black Panther Party for the capture of Trayvon’s shooter, George Zimmerman, might feel justified given what we know of the shooting death. But it is not a call for justice.

It is a call for revenge.

When the group’s leader, Mikhail Muhammad, calls for “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” it is a call for revenge.

Muhammad’s words at a rally — “If the government won’t do the job, we’ll do it” — might feel empowering, might feel good. But that sentiment flies in the face of every call for justice that was made as well at that rally. Anyone who is considering taking Muhammad up on his offer, or even embarking on a solitary journey of revenge should, to quote the Chinese philosopher Confucius, “dig two graves.” 

Nothing good can come from a bunch of vigilantes hunting down and possibly harming another vigilante, regardless of how noble the motivation for doing so may appear on the surface. As angry as I am, and as many of you are, what Muhammad is proposing can only make a bad situation worse. He needs to retract the bounty proposal immediately.

Enough violence, and images of violence, surround this tragedy already.

A “war” on stereotypes.

The “fight” against racism.

It feels as if we can’t even discuss the issue of race as it relates to the Martin case without using words that are linked to violence. Nothing about the world “war” connotes healing. Very little about a bounty suggests togetherness.

I’m not just splitting hairs over semantics. It is science that suggests the words we use shape the way we think. And what we think is the precursor to what we do. If we continue to allow words of conflict to define the conversation about race and racial profiling, then I fear we will move on from this tragedy having learned absolutely nothing, like so many times before.

I know many people think of Martin as a modern-day Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black kid from Chicago who was kidnapped and killed by a pair of racist white men in Mississippi in 1955. I tend to see Martin as the new Ryan White, the young man who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1984 at the age of 13. Before White’s story, the disease was in the public’s peripheral vision, truly discussed only by people who experienced its impact. But once a young, innocent face became associated with AIDS, the country’s attitude changed and we began addressing it more effectively.  

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Similarly, racial profiling was something only those directly affected would talk about. But the Martin tragedy has the potential to change that — if we let it.

Earlier this week, Will Cain and I were guests of Don Lemon’s on CNN and quickly found ourselves in a heated discussion about whether it was appropriate for President Barack Obama to comment on the tragedy. Over the next eight minutes, we fought and argued over issues of race and racial profiling. We continued the conversation once the TV segment was over. We talked on the way to the CNN makeup room. We talked as we left the building, crossed the street and had a beer.

My point is, we talked — not in an effort to fight but to understand each other. To build something. We’re hardly the perfect example of race relations. In fact, both of us are constantly told via Twitter, Facebook and other social media just how racist we are.

But we try to take each criticism with a grain of salt, understanding that at the end of the day, we’re just a couple of men, a couple of fathers who want the same thing: a better world for our kids.

And I tend to believe we’re not the only ones.

But we don’t get to that place through revenge, because revenge is cyclical and gets us nowhere. No, we get to that better world for our kids by walking the long linear line of justice, side by side, picking each other up when one falls, reaching a hand back when one gets tired, never forgetting that no matter how divergent our opinions might be from time to time, we’re in this thing together.

Bored much?

Last Night’s Debate

Here are some of the highlights of last night’s GOP debate. I didn’t think anything was necessarily that insightful, but it was quite entertaining at times. I can’t decide what part of it I liked the best: seeing the candidates sitting uncomfortably at kindergarten-sized desks, listening to Ron Paul call Rick Santorum a “fake” to his face, or witnessing the awkward catfights between Romney and Santorum…

What were your thoughts about the debate??