September 2008 Archives

Chevrolet. NASCAR. No.3. The Intimidator. The Man in black. In the word association game, any racing fan knows what comes next — Dale Earnhardt. The finest stock car driver the world has ever seen was tragically killed in a crash at Daytona speedway. In any sport, there is always one person standing far above the rest. Joe Montana, Michael Jordon, Tiger Woods, A.J. Foyt — and for stock cars, Dale Earnhardt. He dominated the field — everyone else raced for second place.

It’s not AIG, Lehman, Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, or even Enron and MCI. It’s not the national debt, budget deficits or politician’s plans for staggering tax increases which will surely damage the already fragile economy. Make no mistake, all those are bad, but they’re only symptoms of the real disease, the cancer eating away at our society — that cancer is as Zell Miller said “A Deficit of Decency” — more specifically, a lack of ethics.