PENALTY

photo by Landry Heaton

Yeah, so, that didn't take long, did it?  "The Los Angeles Rams preseason opener got off to a rousing start."  And I'm talking about the fan fights, arrests, and hospitalizations.  I mean, really?  The first game back in Los Angeles?   All you folk have to do is sit there and enjoy yourself.  Los Angeles I continue to be worried about you.  You got it all going on, but you still can't make it happen.   news

 

Principle in the type:  "If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet, how important you can be to people. . . . There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."     Fred Rogers

DREAMIN' NOT IN BLACK AND WHITE

photo by U.S. Embassy New Delhi

Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy was celebrated yesterday.  There is no shortage of interesting tidbits about him and his story.  According to sources, King almost left out of his most famous speech, the 'I Have a Dream' bit, if not for "a remark shouted by gospel singer and King friend Mahalia Jackson . . . ' Tell them about the dream, Martin! ' "   she called to him.      story                         

Principle in the type:  "Civility in society is achieved when the majority of people do what is moral because they believe they should, not because they are compelled by law or by police force."      Wilford W. Andersen     

PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER

photo by David Mulder

A 24-year-old man was arrested after he "punched a 78-year-old man in the face" over free Nutella waffle samples at a Burbank, California Costco.   Something about the older man asking the younger man to not take all the samples.   story             People, people, people ... come on.        

Principles in the type:  "Reactions have focused on enacting more and stronger regulation.  Perhaps that may dissuade some from unprincipled conduct, but others will simply get more creative in their circumvention.  There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation. . . . In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay."    D.  Todd Christofferson