“Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.” (J.C. Watts) “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” (Marcus Aurelius) “Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” (Kant)   I really didn’t know how I would approach this blog posting so I wrote a few different versions ranging from the...

“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It’s the hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” (Potter Stewart) “All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of...

  “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.” (John C. Maxwell) “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” (Martin Luther King, Jr) Ever since the Squamish Chief published the story “Four resign from SAC board”, the writing was on the wall...

“Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn’t the will to do what is right” (Solzhenitsyn) “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe — the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” (Kant)   Some of my friends have known me long enough to know that once in a while I can take a very strong stand against something I consider to be wrong. Sometimes I...