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If not us, who? If not now, when? (the image is just for decor, courtesy of my 'droid)

So they've decided to attack Gaddafi and his troops . Watching the headlines right now makes me think they're trying to sell this like a football match. War is no football match.

I was telling two of my friends recently that I had a new-found respect for there being a balance to all things. We often categorize things in our heads - people, objects, events - as things that are "good" and things that are "bad". But we seldom think about how every bad thing (eg: a challenge) has a good side (ie: an opportunity). Likewise, every good thing (eg: luxuries) have a bad side (ie: complacency). But it was then that my friends asked: That's how you think of good and bad, what about our views on good and bad? They told me if we were to think in terms of "balances", then there is my view of the balance as an individual, but there is also a second, bigger view of the balance, which is societal. So from this conversation, I learned that the measurement of value in the big sense (costs relative to benefits in the macrocosm) is a lot more complicated than one person saying "let's measure it this way". Bringing together a consensus...

Gotta love good mornings.

Crossposted on Vijana FM | March 4, 2011 Sir Howard Davies, who until recently was the director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the UK, has resigned from his post . His reasoning? That he had made judgement errors on two occasions when advising the LSE to accept donations from Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi’s son. Mr. Davies’ announcement comes just days after students at the LSE protested to the administration to investigate Saif’s previous records of postgraduate enrollment at the LSE from 2003. Saif is being accused of having plagiarized his doctrate , which he recieved in 2008. The accusations have also come with criticism towards LSE in accepting £1.5 million in 2009 from the so-called Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation. When I was growing up, the word “education” had a positive ring to it. It meant that you (or those paying your fees: Parents, grant makers, universities, corporations, e...