Tag: character

Dear James,

As I attended your wedding celebration last week, so many thoughts came rushing through my head.

I thought about our friendship and how it is a reminder that friendships take many forms. You and I attended high school together, yet it was our geographic proximity during graduate school and the discovery then that we

It is often said that life in a Big Wall Street Law Firm is brutal, but the only time in my professional career that I wanted to cry came when I was a law clerk under The Honorable Peter E. Doyne, then the presiding judge of the chancery division in the Bergen vicinage of the

I think principles in politicians matter, and I simply don't see how anyone who shares this commonly-held view can support and vote for Willard Mitt Romney.

Mind you, it takes a lot, I mean a lot, for me to be offended by a politician for his perceived lack of principles.  I'm far more sensitive than most to

I may have been wrong about LeBron James for the past four years.  In fact, I'm pretty certain that most of us owe him an apology.

As I read his reasons on why he is returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers as told to Sports Illustrated, the word "redemption" came to mind.  By returning to Cleveland, I thought he's redeeming

I am a very critical and judgmental person.

I recently realized how serious my critical nature has become when the first words out of my mouth to a person who had just completed making a perfectly thoughtful remark was, "But isn't it...?"  Being critical has become so second nature to me that I have developed a pattern of "disagree first, think later."

It

There is one category of people that I cannot stand, and those are people who are indecent human beings.

I’ve had the misfortune of getting to know far too many more of these people than I care to recall.

I once participated in a group lunch at a restaurant in which our server, a young kid who

This may come as a surprise to some people, but I don't like confrontation. Sure, I love a good argument, but I like arguing about the irrelevant stuff like politics and sports. So long as I'm neither a politician nor a general manager, such debates have zero impact in my life or the world. In

One of my first job interviews in high school was also one of the most memorable.  For some reason, I was being interviewed by three people who looked like they were all in college.  One guy in particular looked like a punk and he acted like it during the interview.

He, of twenty-odd years old, gave

Blaine Larsen's “In My High School” is one of my favorite songs.  It’s a soothing melody that reflects on what life and people were like in high school.

I wish I can say that the song brings back memories, but the song says nothing about juvenile delinquents who knew of no etiquette, decency or common sense

A friend of mine works at a small satellite office of a major law firm.  He had only been there a couple months but had been been miserable because one of the partners was an intolerable ass.

Recently, his work life suddenly improved even though his hours got dramatically worse:  the partner in question left the

I recently finished reading "The Smartest Guys in the Room," an amazing account of the characters who were complicit in the rise and fall of Enron.   It is a page turner; I couldn't put it down.

The authors, Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, tell a story of how exaggeration, manipulation and obsession with the numbers, particularly

You can't make this stuff up.

Boston College football's head coach Jeff Jagodzinski, affectionately known as Jags, will be fired by Boston College after proceeding to interview for the New York Jets' vacant head coach position even after Athletic Director Gene DeFelippo warned him doing so would lead to his termination.

This bizarre turn of events came