by admin | Dec 3, 2025 | Introspective Dan, Open Letters San Diego Union-Tribune, Politics
Since before the time of Charlemagne, societies with the greatest intellect, institutions and even some clergy were completely devoid of morality. Reinhold Niebuhr had so eloquently explained the stratification of morality in his classic, “Moral man and...
by admin | Dec 3, 2025 | Introspective Dan, Open Letters San Diego Union-Tribune, Politics
Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King lived under the pretext that moral courage is rarer than courage on the ballfield so evident during the horrific and brutal massacre at Mai Lai, Vietnam in 1968. Jimmy Carter for all his micromanagement and miscues in office...
by admin | Dec 3, 2025 | Introspective Dan, Open Letters San Diego Union-Tribune, Politics
The truth remains that very few are hostile to the homeless. But many are frustrated by the homeless. When a society allows for the mentally ill, the drug addicts, the derelicts, and those who simply want to live on our public streets for the past forty years, one...
by admin | Nov 30, 2025 | Introspective Dan, Politics
What would happen if all candidates were limited to spendingtwenty thousand dollars in a San Diego City Council electionThe primary election for San Diego City Council will be here in about six months.Like horses at the trough, candidates are pulling hairs over...
by admin | Nov 29, 2025 | Introspective Dan
For 72 years, I have presented the citizens of San Diego coherent, erudite, compelling, visionary, and beneficial public policy in all my political campaigns.Nobody read a word. My deeds were subjugated to the vile corruption and dirty money thrown at voters like an...
by admin | Nov 28, 2025 | Introspective Dan, Politics
SMIECHOWSKI Name microaggressions can present as names being mispronounced, misspelled, misunderstood, misgendered, or mocked. A common occurrence is for some people choosing to use a more “English-friendly” variation of a migrant’s name instead of the person’s birth...
