America watched two high-profile murder trials play out the week before Thanksgiving, and views on the verdicts reveal just how divided the nation remains. Days after the right celebrated Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal on all counts, the left cheered the conviction of three Georgia men charged in the shooting death of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery.

While emotions ran high in both cases, the verdicts have thus far been met with relative calm compared to the climate when these incidents occurred. Perhaps that's because in both cases the juries followed the letter of the law, which is what equal justice is all about. If only both sides could agree to reform the laws instead of using them to attack each other.

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"The Great Resignation" refers to the recent trend of individuals leaving the workforce in droves over dissatisfaction with their jobs. But it could also apply to entrepreneurs who are "resigned" to accepting the status quo. It's no wonder employees are walking away from dead-end jobs.

That's just one area where innovation and employee empowerment can set a company apart from others, and those intangibles can have a drawing effect on customers as well as workers. Take your company to the next level by being open to doing things differently than your rivals.

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Once considered a topic too taboo for any government agency to touch with a 10-foot telescope, UFOs are now the subject of a Pentagon task force that is being created to investigate unexplained aerial sightings. Talking about UFOs once got service members a Section 8 discharge; now it lands them a spot on an a task force to discuss flying saucers.

The move comes after credible reports have surfaced from military pilots about UAPs (Unexplained Aerial Phenomena, leave it to the military to create its own acronym for an acronym). Video images show strange aircraft performing maneuvers that are beyond our technology.

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What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?

Which member of The Beatles claimed he had a UFO sighting in 1974?

Wednesday's answer: Michael Strahan broke the single-season sacks record in 2001 in controversial fashion when fellow Hall of Famer Brett Favre took a dive at Strahan's feet to give him 22.5 sacks for the year.

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