Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” lists the attributes of a rational human being. Paramount is to keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…  That’s a tall order these days.  Robert Reich, famed economist and liberal commentator, lost his head recently. Furious

Many fairytales are quest stories in which the hero must accomplish a task before he wins the princess’s hand. The Twelve Dancing Princesses is my favorite.  Joe Manchin sent his Democratic colleagues on a quest to gain bi-partisan support for two voting rights bills he support