What's In Your Pasture?

Poor Goat

Goats are great critters.  On Wikipedia, they list 144 different breeds of goats.  I especially like the Fainting Goats.  There is one type of goat missing from the list though, and yet he is probably the most common breed of all.  He is the Scapegoat.  Out of all the goats out there, he is the favorite of the media, activists, politicians, and any CEO that gets “caught.”  

Putting the goat humor aside for a second, scapegoats run rampant all over the world due to one single, solitary reason: ACCOUNTABILITY.  No one wants to be accountable for anything well until they are caught and then they grovel and shift into victim mode.  Can you imagine how crazy it would drive the bloodthirsty media if a politician just stood up and said, “Yep!  I did it…I take full responsibility for my actions…THE END?”  I bet Representative Weiner is thinking that very thing right now, but isn’t it funny last week how he was a victim of a hacker? 

I screw up a lot, but I own it when I do it.  I know I will screw up again somewhere along the way, and even then, I will still own it.  One of these days, I will have some fainting goats, but the one goat you will not find in my pasture is the scapegoat.

So what’s in your pasture?