Craig's Corner

I’m a creature of habit. I follow a consistent day to day routine from when and where I walk the dogs to having a “regular” order at the local café for both lunch and dinner. I even run into the same people at the same time on elevators! There’s something reassuring about having consistency and following the same patterns. Sometime doing things over and over doesn’t necessarily make them the right thing to do. A doctor told me recently that the way I compensated for an injury by repeatedly walking in a different way had caused a range of other issues. When it comes to more cerebral things I try hard not to share, retweet or pass along information that may not be accurate. There’s a tendency in today’s social media timed world to share first and think later. In politics the more you say something the more people believe it. Donald J. Trump’s biggest political claim is that for years he repeatedly said that he didn’t think that Barack Obama was born in the U.S. There was no evid...

Here in New England the sun has reappeared and buds are bringing life to grounds. As I walk around my neighborhood I smell bar-b-que’s firing up for the season. Slippers around the house have been replaced with flip-flops for the season. Summer’s coming! It’s also the season of flip flopping in politics. This year’s contest has the biggest whopper I’ve ever seen. The ordinary definition is when a candidate changes position --- and while that’s always an amusing thing to look at, I have a pretty high tolerance for people who change their mind. To me it can show signs of an inquisitive nature, an ability to adapt and an openness to compromise. Yet there are limits. On matters of core principals, I think it’s hard to move from one stance to another without a powerful narrative. Mitt Romney is one of the biggest flip floppers and there’s an entire site devoted to it (with references). See when Mitt was pro-choice and then became pro-life. On nearly every issue he pivoted. Man...

I can do basic math, especially with the help of a calculator. It wasn’t always the case. I almost didn’t make it out of my Junior year in High School because of Geometry – something I still am not sure had any value all these years later and something I’m not sure really relates to math! Joking aside, my point is that I know that the math favors Mrs. Clinton in the 2016 Democratic nomination race. And I see where Senator Sanders supporters are frustrated. This is not a “Feel the Bern” blog – but there is something about the math in these primaries that deserves looking into – for both parties. If you listen or follow the ‘mainstream’ media (or ‘lame stream’ if you’re a Sarah Palin supporter) – the Democratic nomination for President is all sewn up. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has no way of meeting the number of delegates needed. (The candidates are a few hundred delegates apart from the results from the various state elections but Mrs. Clinton has hundreds more of ‘super del...

I’ve been doing a fair amount of travel in the last year or so with lots more to come in the next six months. On my most recent trip as I bemoaned the state of getting from point a to point b – I decided to do a quick calculation in my head about how much of my life I’ve spent in a metal tube going from place to place. By my conservative estimate it’s about 2 full months of my life. It’s a huge amount of time on the one hand – but on the other where I have friends who fly much more than I – I imagine they’ve spent years on planes. Traveling is not fun, pleasant or nice anymore. And while there’s lots of reasons for that, the TSA continues to show a level of incompetence that is baffling and Congress keeps rewarding them. Here’s some quotes from TSA staffers at the recent (4/2016) hearings in Congress: “…bosses at the TSA are the biggest bullies in government." “Assistant federal security director Andrew Rhoades agreed that the TSA suffers from ‘ gross mismanageme...