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In 1990, the United States launched something bold and brilliant into space — the Hubble Space Telescope, named for astronomer Edwin Hubble. Carried into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery , it was designed to be our eye in the sky, capturing jaw-dropping images of galaxies, nebulae, and the glittering secrets of the cosmos. But when Hubble opened that enormous, high-tech eye and began sending back photos, something was… off. The images were blurry — not just a little f

You can be the Thermostat or the Thermometer Where did I first hear that?  Maybe it was the lacrosse coach who was trying to put the truck driver’s son on the right track.   Or it was the old West Virginia General.  Maybe the Wing Commander/Bible Teacher who tried to point a bunch of junior officers in the right direction.  Whatever the case, it stuck.  Now I find myself using it with my kids and other youth. The gist of the analogy centers on surroundings.  You see, a thermo

This week, I had a conversation with someone familiar with the legal aftermath of the Jan 6 Capitol Hill Riots.  As a law enforcement officer, he talked about sitting across the table from some of the people being charged. Many were law-abiding citizens up to this point.  People, perhaps, who could have been our neighbors (some of them were).   But they got caught up in the “Echo Chamber,” and now, unfortunately, reality has set in. The “Echo Chamber” is a terrible place.  A

In the first century, a somewhat confused Roman proconsul once asked the rhetorical question, “what is truth?” His mindset would later lead him to some bad decisions.  Today, we find ourselves in somewhat of the same fix.  We look across news sources, newspapers, books, the internet, and social media, wondering what and where is truth. Rand Corporation recently coined a phrase.  They call their new series, “ Truth Decay —the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis pla

This week I got a chance to listen to two of my favorite actors talk about Race.  Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman were interviewed, and I appreciated what both men said.  But Morgan Freeman poked me a little bit with a throwaway comment that I would like to address.  He said (paraphrased), “Race is kinda like religion to me.  It is a good excuse for not getting there.”   I love Morgan Freeman in almost everything he does.  Shawshank Redemption, tops!  RED, Hilarious! Inv