Remembering Bobby
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
Until, in our own despair,
Against our will,
Comes wisdom
Through the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
This was Robert Kennedy’s favorite poem, written by his favorite poet. He quoted it to a crowd of shocked and horrified onlookers at a rally in Indianapolis the night Dr. [...]
The Project Life Cycle (PLC)
Introduction
On February 1, 2008, I wrote an article titled, Java Infix to Postfix && Evaluator. Such a program is small potatoes compared to enterprise level coding, however, it grasps the concept of implementing a data structure in an object-oriented environment with a high-level programming language. Such an activity in the Information Technology (IT) world is performed by [...]
The Long Goodbye
The news this week of Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy suffering from a malignant inoperable brain tumor was hard to take. Already the collective mind is being drawn to the month of June and the anniversary of Robert Kennedy’s assassination and inevitably to Dallas and 1963 when first we learned the jarring news of President Kennedy’s [...]
Americans are all the same
I’ve just returned from a two-week business trip, which took me throughout the Midwest and Deep South. While a lot of the geography I saw differed greatly from the sprawling Tennessee Valley, which has always been my home, I’ve been refreshed in the knowledge that geography is about the only thing that differentiates the people [...]
Mission Accomplished: Five Years later
“Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country”
…..President George W.Bush, May 3, 2003
Not Everyone Was Convinced
Before the start of the war in Iraq a number of very influential Americans tried to [...]