Tell Me If Anything Was Ever Done by Chris Brady Mon Jul 19 2010 It at first seems odd that Leonardo da Vinci is so revered today. None of his sculptured works have survived, and only around a grand total of fifteen of his paintings are known. Although he wrote a lot about architecture,......Read more
Siena by Car - "You Idiot" by Chris Brady Tue Jul 13 2010 Siena is an old city. The world-famous Palio horse race held in the large central square, Piazza del Campo, officially dates back to 1283, though many think its origins go back to Roman military training. One can learn many things......Read more
Leaders Travel Light by Chris Brady Sun Jul 11 2010 I learned it the hard way, really, by dragging bulky bags through crowded bus terminals, onto packed trains, and up stairs at a five-hundred year-old hotel. I will never forget slugging two huge suitcases through Narita station in Tokyo, stopping......Read more
Herculaneum - "Are We There Yet?" by Chris Brady Fri Jul 9 2010 I had what might be called a conversation with the steward of our cliffside villa, inquiring about the limited routes over or around the mountain range behind us and back over to Naples (Napoli). He spoke some English, he thought,......Read more
Musings from the Mediterranean by Chris Brady Tue Jul 6 2010 He and his family are occupying the space above ours in this unique, cliff-side perch above the Mediterranean. In a short conversation by the cliff platforms for sea diving, Alan made a simple yet profound statement. His words carry the......Read more
Featured Rascals: Ed Freeman and Bruce Crandall by Chris Brady Thu Jul 1 2010 The United States government was still calling the involvement of U.S. military personnel in Viet Nam a "police action," but from the intensity of the fighting in the la Drang Valley that day of November 14, 1965, it certainly looked......Read more
Featured Rascal: Gerrold Mor by Chris Brady Wed Jun 30 2010 For hundreds of years, England held sway over Ireland. Their hegemony ranged from tyranny and brutal murder to loose control, but always, generation after generation, there was the yoke of English rule. Lands were taken from peasants and given to......Read more
Featured Rascal: John Wycliffe by Chris Brady Tue Jun 29 2010 John Wycliffe was a fourteenth century Oxford scholar. Charismatic, fluent in Latin, and a major philosopher and theologian, Wycliffe was living the life of a sequestered intellectual professor. He was well respected and...Read more
That Sparkling Mistress by Chris Brady Mon Jun 28 2010 Ah, art, that sparkling mistress She winks at me through brick arches Marble columns and stone pediments, Frescoes, sculptures, colors and forms, Painstakingly extracted from genius, Sinews straining against complacency Languidly...Read more
Featured Rascal: Mother Teresa by Chris Brady Fri Jun 25 2010 Born in 1910 Agnese Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Uskub, Ottoman Empire, she was the youngest child in a family from Albania. At age eight, when her father died, she began attending a Roman Catholic church. By age twelve she was convinced......Read more
Idolatry of the State by Orrin Woodward Fri Jun 11 2010 Man is a worshiping being and when man rejects God, it doesn’t mean that he stops worshiping, only that he stops worshiping the true God. A trend I see developing in the West is a love of the State as they no longer...Read more
Leadership & Tact by Orrin Woodward Sun Jun 6 2010 Here is an excellent article from a 19th century historian, William Lecky. I have been reading some of the old late 1800's literature on character and this is a classic that I had to share with the hungry leaders on...Read more
Grand Slam of Shark Fishing - Florida by Orrin Woodward Tue Jun 1 2010 On Memorial day, Captain Bill, my friend Bill, my two younger boys, and Bill's two young boys, and I went out for a shark fishing adventure. Catching some sun, listening to personal development CD's, chumming the water,...Read more
Top Tweeter Writer Leader - Online Christian Colleges by Orrin Woodward Sat May 29 2010 A quick Memorial Day weekend thanks to Karen Anderson, of Online Christian Colleges, for her selection of my twitter account as the top tweeter in the Christian writer category. Twitter has become a networking phenomena...Read more
Moral Leadership - Nobilitas Naturalis - William Ropke by Orrin Woodward Wed May 26 2010 I read the following paragraphs out of A Humane Economy by William Ropke in my daily study of economics. Readers of this blog may have noticed a recurring theme of late on the importance of leadership in economics to...Read more
Social Means vs. State Power - Conceived in Liberty by Orrin Woodward Wed May 19 2010 Murray Rothbard is fast becoming one of my favorite economists/philosophers/historians. His synopsis of the struggle between liberty and power is the best description I have yet read. Liberty requires freedom...Read more