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Trust is the currency between peoples.    Destroy trust and you destroy the world. Currently, trust is eroding everywhere, interpersonal, interparty, intercountry, across the world. In the congress, in the press, in the workplace. Trust and love have one common quality.  Once lost, they are near impossible to recover. ---------------------------- Summing up the Reps and Dems.  Problem at hand: Deciding the color of the toilet paper in congressional restrooms.  Solution Reps: Unable to compromise, adjourn for vacation.  Solution Dems: Unable to consider or process request, await decision from leadership. -------------------------- If you watch tennis these days, you will see that every player seems to hit the ball harder than ever, with more spin, and with more skill than ever before. Many come with an entourage of personal coaches.  But the dress is what you first notice, particularly if you’re not a player.  Many of the men dress as though they came to mow the lawn, wor

What is tweeting?  A method to exhale an incomplete thought in a moment of haste.  Pro’s: Get your idea out there quickly.  Can make an important point transcendent of media filters. Con’s: Once written it is permanent, sometimes cryptic, open to misinterpretation, and incomplete. Ancient tweeting forms: interviews given to media, unprepared press conferences, off-hand comments, op-eds, letters.  Few have permanence in favor of the tweeter. It is easy to see a future book: The rise and fall of the twitter world .  Certainly a hundred PhD theses, dozens of books. History may record that tweeting is an existential threat to the presidency.   Will the current President learn this in time?  Doubtful. There is an old saying that the same tools used to gain power are used to sustain power. This applies in politics, not just business – to all players, independent of persuasion.  A universal law, it is reminiscent of the ancient aphorism about the proverbial “leopard tha