Tag: Integrity
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“Better The Shit Than This!” What Lina Wertmuller’s “Seven Beauties” Teaches Us About Integrity
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced yesterday that they were awarding Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmuller an honorary Oscar. She deserves an Oscar for sure — but honorary? She deserves one for a body of great work. Wertmuller’s best known features (here in America) include “The Seduction of Mimi”, “Swept Away”, “Love &…
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Republicans Have No Idea What “Integrity” Is — “Ditto” The Rule Of Law
Ever meet a guy with 96% of his integrity intact? “Yeah — he’s pretty honest most of the time… it’s that 4% where he’s a goddamned liar that’s the problem” is not a sentence one hears often. There’s a reason. Integrity either is or it isn’t. There’s no middle ground, no grey area. In fact,…
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Integrity’s An All Or Nothing Proposition – You Either Have It Or You Don’t
In the movie Princess Bride, Wallace Sean’s Vizzini, confounded by their inability to outrun Cary Elwes’ Westley, repeats the word “inconceivable” with increasing consternation until, at one point, Mandy Patinkin’s Inago Montoya responds famously — We have the exact same problem with the whole concept of INTEGRITY — never mind the word. A Democratic system…
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What Republicans Forgot: INTEGRITY Matters
Regardless of how we’re all physically ‘born’, we all arrive in this world with 100% of our Integrity intact. Whether or not we get to the end of our lives with it STILL intact — that’s entirely up to us. The ‘thing’ about Integrity is, it’s an ‘all or nothing’ proposition. Ever meet someone with…
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Want My Vote? First Question: Is Your Core ‘Belief System’ Based On Real Or RUBBISH?
Here’s the conundrum atheists have faced at each and every election. We have to cast a ballot for people making Life & Death decisions for us. At the presidential level those are LITERAL Life & Death Decisions. A POTUS has the power to literally wipe out huge chunks of humanity. Not ‘quite’ with the press…
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Here’s The Question: Is Integrity Dead?
You can chip away at a lot of things — and still have them. Living in California as I do, ‘Paradise’ comes to mind. There’s that lyric to that great Eagles song (the last cut on ‘Hotel California’) “The Last Resort”: “They called it ‘Paradise’, I don’t know why… Call someplace ‘Paradise’ — Kiss it…
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Integrity Is An All Or Nothing Proposition
My kids, when they were little, wanted to do a hundred things each day — because, in their minds, it was possible to spend the same time doing two completely different things. It wasn’t, of course. Invariably we had to make choices about what we wanted to do with our time — because the Truth…