Jun 16, 2018
SmartHER Summary
We often perceive absolutes as facts.
But the truth often exists in shades of gray, rather than black or white.
This week’s news on the historic Singapore summitbetween America & North Korea serves as a prime example. In the aftermath, the debate over what the summit means or what it doesn’t vacillates between an epic moment in time OR a just a drop in the bucket.
All or nearly nothing.
We humbly suggest the summit can, in fact, be both. And THAT’S why it’s powerful and notable.
Interestingly, you can both work as an expert of North Korea AND never step foot in the country. And that’s a fact about almost every single person you’ve heard this week espouse about North Korea – except for Michael Malice who has done BOTH, visited North Korea AND researched and written extensively about the hermit kingdom. Michael joins us on the SmartHER News podcast.
The Singapore summit remains bothan important
story and a major distraction from other news overseas:
Islamic terrorists kill an
American soldierin Africa.
China
strategically parks dangerous weaponson highly contested
islands.
In Russia, the World Cup brings
“spoons of victory”and an Iranian team *suddenly* finds
itself without its shoe sponsor.
Stateside:
An important memorial at Pearl
Harbor remains closed indefinitely.
Plague
resurfaces.
And a proposal to split
California into 3 separate statesmakes it on the
ballot.
An inspector general at the FBI
bothshuts the door on a chapter in American
historywhile leaving an opening for more questions about
political bias.
The Supreme Court rules
you can be removed from voting rollsif you
BOTHdon’t vote and don’t respond to mail.
A teenager bothsuffers from the darkness of
depression, and sheds light
on a potential solution.
Father’s Day, a holiday, inspired by a man with a background as
BOTHa
Civil war veteran and single dad.
Juxtapositions make stories dynamic. And leaving room for “both”
makes us Smart (HER).
Instead of uncertainty, considering bothreflects another fact: endless possibilities.
Jenna and The SmartHER Squad.
P.S. A very special Father's Day message on our podcast.