http://www.sunyit.edu/apps/weblog/?blog=hanmerz en-us hanmerz@sunyit.edu hanmerz@sunyit.edu http://www.sunyit.edu/apps/weblog/?blog=hanmerz&mode=viewpost&id=17089 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:17:36 EDT hanmerz “The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.” – John Steinbeck quotes (U.S. novelist and Nobel Prize winner for literature, 1902-1968)   What is dishonesty? Dishonesty is a word which, in common usage, may... http://www.sunyit.edu/apps/weblog/?blog=hanmerz&mode=viewpost&id=17088 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:15:18 EDT hanmerz “We have found over and over again: Mistakes have been made. Innocent people have been freed. It’s not possible to create a perfect, mistake-free death penalty system.” – Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, announcing his state’s... http://www.sunyit.edu/apps/weblog/?blog=hanmerz&mode=viewpost&id=17087 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:13:45 EDT hanmerz This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: When he first appears he is a protector.” – Plato (Ancient Greek philosopher, 428 BCE – 348 BCE) Definitions of Tyranny 1. arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic... http://www.sunyit.edu/apps/weblog/?blog=hanmerz&mode=viewpost&id=17086 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:11:48 EDT hanmerz “Most people also believe that how politicians behave influences how citizens treat each other,” poll finds From Harris: “A new Harris Poll addresses the issue of incivility in politics and public life. It finds that an overwhelming 87%... http://www.sunyit.edu/apps/weblog/?blog=hanmerz&mode=viewpost&id=17085 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:07:26 EDT hanmerz Are we doing the right thing in Libya? As the world contemplates the Libyan crisis, that question underlies all others. It evokes a defiant No! from Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi — and an emphatic Yes! from Libyan rebels. Between those bookends lies the...