Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Middle East Inferno: Fight or Flight?
I love France, the French people, and French culture. I’ve visited there at least fifteen times in my seventy years, most often by choice but also on business, attending the...
Job Creators or Deregulation & Tax-cut Proponents?
Robert Proctor, a science historian at Stanford, has coined a new word that’s getting lots of attention… agnotology. Agnotology is the study of efforts to spread confusion and deceive people in an...
“Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light”
The long-accepted stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. As in grief, there are similar stages through which one must pass to acquire wisdom and learning. As...
Business-as-usual or…?
“Build it and they will come” is the oft-misquoted meme from the classic movie Field of Dreams. And in the case of the proposal by CoreCivic, a private prison firm, to build...
Identity Politics
I’ve recently learned I’m a “privileged, cisgendered, white male.” This feels somewhat alien to me still – but it’s new so I’m willing to try it on and figure out what...
Language, Fear, & Leadership
Without notice or comment, The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (UCIS) recently removed from its mission statement a century-old introductory phrase… “America’s promise as a nation of immigrants…” At the...
Who Really Made America Great?
An epiphany is a spontaneous event that inexplicably alters one’s life, a manifestation of some force in the universe greater than oneself. My wife and I both experienced this...
The Dignity of All Work
Neighbors in an upscale condo development were speculating about what the guy in the end-unit must do for a living to afford a sailboat, motorcycle, and camper. Curious, one strolled...
Deckchairs…
“We must agree to disagree” is a fair resolution to any discussion and such was the case with a thoughtful discussion I had recently about S. 107, a bill to split the Agency...
We Can’t Afford Our Future
Periodically, we must relearn old lessons. A key such lesson is Franklin’s “Ounce of prevention…” adage – as relevant today as when Franklin applied it to fire prevention 250 years...
Prison, a barometer of our collective failures?
The scale of incarceration in our country is more than a gauge of domestic crime, it is a socio-economic indicator, telling us how we are doing on the key metrics...
Potty Politics
If you’re wondering why our bridges collapse, our trains collide, security lines stretch on, and our courtrooms have no judges … it’s because “potty politics” has become a more important...
