I guess I can’t complain too much that today is Monday – it’s a short week in the office, after all. But that’s really of little consolation. It’s still Monday and I still wish it wasn’t. Worse than that, it’s Monday morning, the worst morning of them all. On November 19, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most important speeches in American History. The Gettysburg Address lasted... 

Today is Martin Luther King Day. I wish the non-violent revolutionary was still here on Earth. We could really use him right about now. What would he have to say? About the war in Iraq? About sex on TV? About all the race related violence that is sadly still prevalent? …Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light...