But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In fact, they play at deceit all the time. Mostly they balance each other, giving us that crucial reality check. But what happens on the rare occasions when they conspire together?

Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.