Starling is a class act and I think his is the example as to why we don’t “self-censor” like some Eastern Block commissar but why we maintain a level of decorum that does not impugn the dignity of our friends and colleagues. It takes more than a little guts to come clean like he did and he had no other obligation than to be true to his beliefs to do so. I take him at his word too.

Have you ever found yourself a party to a conversation and asked yourself “what would my mother think of that?” Sometimes we can act a little shameful because we are accustomed to believe our thoughts are isolated but that is true less today then it was yesterday and completely baseless in a public forum such as this. Whiskey can be an object lesson that I can learn from and reminds me that I too tend to blame a lot of “others” for being less than I am but there is always room to rise above one’s own shortcomings and to find a way clear that doesn’t devolve into Lord of the Flies.