Time is relative

I've noticed something particularly odd about time. When you really need it, y0u don't have it. When you have to much of it, there nothing to fill it with. If you wanted to reserve a block of time for something, say homework, it's amazing how something better comes along. I have been forced, by way of my own doing, to write 1-2 four page papers every week for about the last six weeks. Not to say that the better option will edify and uplift quite as much as reviewing supreme court decisions, and making uneducated inferences about their meaning and present day applications.


Though I try to look at it with the attitude that I have scarcely more than one year until the suffering has ended, that's a lot of papers. A lot of papers. I have learned some stuff along the way, however. Nothing that will solve world hunger, yet. If anyone is looking for a good book on effective leadership, and a good example of someone to follow, pick up a copy of this book on President Lincoln. It is an easy read and actually has some good points and interesting anecdotes about honest Abe. Not to get too political, but clearly the current president did not read this book. Nor did he read Sun Tzu's The Art of War.


But remember, if you vote with your heart and not your pocketbook, the terrorists win. Not really. But please read Lincoln's speech delivered at the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery for the slain Union soldiers.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

There is not much more that can be said.