Bunker Mulligan "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain

I must add Avery Tooley to my list of links. It is a moral imperative. The man speaks with good sense. I cannot remember where I first ran across his site, but La Shawn recommends him, and I’ve checked back to see what he has to say irregularly. It will now be a regular visit. The fact that he once was a wrestling coach gives him even more credibility in my eyes. Wrestling requires self-reliance.

For a sampling of what Avery has to say, check this post:

I can understand wanting to defend the poor and the defenseless, but sometimes they need to step their game up, too. If my stated objective is to help someone advance and I know that some element of their behavior will be an impediment to that advancement, then what I am doing and what I am saying are not in agreement, which would make me a hypocrite. The fact that I did the same thing at an earlier point does not make me hypocritical. If anything, it should give me additional validity.

We all make mistakes. We try to learn from them. And we want others not to make the same ones we did. That is not being a hypocrite.