“For I hate feminism. It is poison.” Thacher
No elevator working in the office building today. I'm on the 11th floor.
Mom redid the floor in the Summer Palace.
The Mueller Hearings did show an interesting tendency: The Congress does love a grownup.
A truly funny idea from Ridley: "Why are wolves increasing all around the world, lions decreasing and tigers now holding steady? Basically, because wolves are in rich countries, lions in poor countries and tigers in middle income countries." There is a notion among the illiterate that prosperity is, somehow, a problem and not a solution.
Vintage is becoming big business as The RealReal and other upstarts feast on the emerging appeal of secondhand clothes, shoes and accessories.(wsj)
In 2012, 2014 and 2015, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni commissioned a survey of college graduates and found that less than 20% could accurately identify the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation. Less than half could identify George Washington as the American general at Yorktown. One-third of college graduates were unaware that FDR introduced the New Deal. Over one-third of the college graduates surveyed could not place the American Civil War in its correct 20-year time frame. Nearly half of the college graduates could not identify correctly the term lengths of U.S. senators and representatives.
Gandhi said, “Today man wants to visit England; tomorrow he will want to visit the moon.” This analysis led Gandhi to reject the goal of getting more, and to recommend the goal of wanting less.
But the social engineers, taking credit for solving the production problem, now believe the only thing separating us from Utopia is solving the distribution problem. And we will all be satisfied.
But we are a restless, grasping species. To our credit, we can never be satisfied.
On August 16, 1920, Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman was struck in the temple by a ball pitched by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. He died 12 hours later. This was the first and only death to occur as the result of a pitched ball in major league history.
Three Strikes and You're Out
The three significant events that have occurred in the last two years are the election of Trump, the Brexit vote and the election of the conservative government in Australia. And each of these events came as a staggering surprise to the experts and pundits alike. So the really important moments in the West over the last two years were completely missed by the experts. It is one thing to be wrong, it is quite another to attribute your errors to strange, unfathomable forces. And when your are making errors repeatedly in the same sphere one might expect a reassessment.
This is the hallmark of the contemporary American Press: A failure of reflection.
In the face of astonishing miscalculations they make the next one as if nothing had happened prior. This implies an inability to learn.
That and a lack of humility.
No elevator working in the office building today. I'm on the 11th floor.
Mom redid the floor in the Summer Palace.
The Mueller Hearings did show an interesting tendency: The Congress does love a grownup.
A truly funny idea from Ridley: "Why are wolves increasing all around the world, lions decreasing and tigers now holding steady? Basically, because wolves are in rich countries, lions in poor countries and tigers in middle income countries." There is a notion among the illiterate that prosperity is, somehow, a problem and not a solution.
Vintage is becoming big business as The RealReal and other upstarts feast on the emerging appeal of secondhand clothes, shoes and accessories.(wsj)
In 2012, 2014 and 2015, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni commissioned a survey of college graduates and found that less than 20% could accurately identify the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation. Less than half could identify George Washington as the American general at Yorktown. One-third of college graduates were unaware that FDR introduced the New Deal. Over one-third of the college graduates surveyed could not place the American Civil War in its correct 20-year time frame. Nearly half of the college graduates could not identify correctly the term lengths of U.S. senators and representatives.
Gandhi said, “Today man wants to visit England; tomorrow he will want to visit the moon.” This analysis led Gandhi to reject the goal of getting more, and to recommend the goal of wanting less.
But the social engineers, taking credit for solving the production problem, now believe the only thing separating us from Utopia is solving the distribution problem. And we will all be satisfied.
But we are a restless, grasping species. To our credit, we can never be satisfied.
On August 16, 1920, Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman was struck in the temple by a ball pitched by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. He died 12 hours later. This was the first and only death to occur as the result of a pitched ball in major league history.
Three Strikes and You're Out
The three significant events that have occurred in the last two years are the election of Trump, the Brexit vote and the election of the conservative government in Australia. And each of these events came as a staggering surprise to the experts and pundits alike. So the really important moments in the West over the last two years were completely missed by the experts. It is one thing to be wrong, it is quite another to attribute your errors to strange, unfathomable forces. And when your are making errors repeatedly in the same sphere one might expect a reassessment.
This is the hallmark of the contemporary American Press: A failure of reflection.
In the face of astonishing miscalculations they make the next one as if nothing had happened prior. This implies an inability to learn.
That and a lack of humility.
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