Always love a good John Grisham book. 'The Guardians' is no exception. Awesome. Highly recommended. Author's note: inspired by a tragic, true story of innocence robbed and jailed for life. Caution for me in today's "uber-sensitive-social-justice-charged" world...some find a problem or something that offends them (always human) within a system (any context large or small)...and simply start screaming bloody murder that we need a new system and this one sucks and everyone is pa

"Somebody has to pay for that." A value based exchange of resources for commodity or service. (This means something has to be produced--contributed) This should be our first thought re: ANYTHING (buying groceries, consumer spending, vacation, politics, and solving local, national or global challenges). Nothing is free and we can't pay for everything. There are some who subscribe to a philosophy where the only conceivable end-state is sameness--this never ends well and is diam