Armed with the armour of retirement in my nearby future, I've always rattled the diversity cage by asking whomever is running the coproarate slideshow and has sat thru a total of 3 hours of train-the-trainer indoctrination to show me something of actual substance that factually makes the case for diversity. I tell them I am tired of seeing smiling faces of different genders and races and hearing the mantra that "diversity is good for business". I tell them that I have paid attention, viewed their prepackaged slides but now I wan tto see fact and figures that prove their claim that diversity is an end in itself and that increased productivity or profitablilty is the result of aggressive diversity programs. I never get answers - only scowls.

I don't recall the fawning coverage of Jack Kennedy and Walter Cronkite's sailboat interests being treated like out-of-touch elitists. Then, and for them, their treatment as sailbout owners and afficianados was portrayed like he-man adventures requiring vision and nerves of steel. It is amazing what of life is seen thru a hypocrits eyes. When Dem is holding the wheel of some multimillion dollar sailboat they are portrayed as courageous and daring. When a GOP woman rides a horse she is painted as a highbrow. Its hypocrisy and nothing at all new.

We have compromised a little here and a little there for for so long that each little 1-inch step in the direction of compromise that we've made now has us standing on the edge of the abyss.

Vigorously invoke and use "groupthink" to arrive at all decsions. Only assemble like-thinking people for all committees and peer review efforts. Spend your capital equally between scientific means and PR firms and then adjust the data produced via scientific means to be best used by your hired PR firm.