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OPM Disability Retirement: The gathering clouds

Posted onNovember 2, 2017December 6, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We don’t have people saying such pithy or inane things, anymore, and the death of the metaphor is the fault of Google. And, of course, the Weather Channel and the Smart Phone apps that give us the updated information concerning that which we can see for ourselves. Who ever talks that way, anymore? “The dark clouds are gathering” – a metaphor for trouble brewing, problems arising or bad people getting together to engage in no good deeds. […] Read More …

OPM Retirement Benefits for Disabled Employees: Discovering the natural teleology

Posted onMarch 5, 2016March 29, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is for that function or use in society that we strive in our early years; while some may argue that the extrinsic relationship between career and one’s natural abilities make for an artificial coalescence of man-to-meaning, nevertheless, the adaptation to societal needs results in the correspondence between man’s inherent want and the contribution to a greater good. But what happens when, later in life, the fusion of ability with societal need is abandoned? […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: That Song That Won’t Go Away

Posted onJuly 20, 2015March 14, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

There is that song, tune, jingle, etc., that sticks to the mind and refuses to go away; and the circularity of the anomaly is that, the more one tries to expunge the melody from one’s mind, the greater the force of staying power; it is only when we “give in” to the persistence, and “give up” trying so hard in suppressing beyond the subconscious, that there comes a time when we can give a sigh of relief and acknowledge, […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from the U.S. Postal Service and other Federal Agencies: The State of Solitude

Posted onMay 20, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Having a medical condition necessarily results in a state of solitude. While others can empathize, no one else can fully comprehend the totality of the experiential turmoil and trauma, the emotional, physical and psychological toll upon the diminished personhood and the daily struggle endured. It is a solitary state of existence, and all the more so when individuals, agencies, friends, family and acquaintances fail to take the time to understand. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Lawyer: At What Cost?

Posted onApril 16, 2015November 5, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

The introduction of the “cost-benefit analysis” (CBA) by the French (who else?) is a quantitative approach in determining whether to go forward with a given project. There are other approaches, of course, but the popularity of such a utilitarian paradigm is especially attractive to Americans, precisely because it allegedly places a determinable value upon the project, endeavor or issue in question. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Attorney: The Aftermath

Posted onApril 2, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We like to think in linear prose; that is why, when E. E. Cummings showered the literary world with typographical disarray, a collective groan of discomfort visibly shook the foundations of the art form. In daily life, it is the capacity of seeing a beginning, continuum and conclusion to a segment of a bifurcated visual horizon, which makes for sanity. Closure and a sense of termination allows for satisfaction of an accomplished deed. […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement: The Categorical Imperative

Posted onFebruary 28, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is, of course, the foundation of Kant’s moral philosophy; of the unconditional call to act in a certain way, accepted and mandated precisely because there is no room for question. But that life were so easy; automatons would simply act in mechanistic ways, driven by moral certitude; free will could be determined by the comforting thought that universal codes of conduct shall always confine and direct. And bureaucracies would always make decisions within a framework of computational algorithms. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: The Stolen Soul

Posted onFebruary 2, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Superstitions often have a grain of truth in them; otherwise, they would not have endured the test of culture, time and governance of actions in ensuring their longevity and pervasive countenance. Aboriginal tribes and remote communities far removed from the technological modernity of this growing world; pockets of secluded peoples and those who simply shy away from the spotlight of drones like druids of yore; once, there was a belief that having a photograph taken or an image drawn constituted the stealing of a soul. We don’t believe that. We no longer believe such nonsense. […] Read More …