From Ted Quotes: “Don’t persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.” – Elizabeth Lesser There’s a real threat today. No, it’s not out of control spending. No, it’s not religious zealotry. These are symptoms of a larger ailment. It’s that our conversations about the issues about which we disagree are [...]
Philosophy
That is what a U.S. Marine is heard saying, apparently to a dead body as he and fellow Marines urinated on it. And as grotesque, horrific, disgusting, unconscionable, repugnant, or other strong negative emotion adjective of distaste that you might use to describe this most recent behavior of our few, and proud, there are some [...]
Jeff recently sent me Top Five Regrets of The Dying. I think it’s worth reading. After all, we could all use a little more introspection. However, I also think it’s important to recognize some context. As morbid and perhaps unempathetic as it may sound, these are the regrets of the dying, a perspective from which [...]
With the impending House vote to assure that the phrase “In God We Trust” remains prominent on government “stuff,” I found myself longing for a new national motto. I don’t consider myself an atheist necessarily. I know there’s a lot that we just don’t know, and I am ok with that. Is the unknown a [...]
So here’s the issue. Google provides guidelines for webmasters to help them “do the right things” to get their websites to perform better in Google. These guidelines say things like: “Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.” “If your company [...]
So I have been making good on my New Year’s resolution and just finished Plato’s Apology. While it wasn’t my first read (that would have been during my undergraduate studies I suppose), it’s remarkable how something can take on so much more meaning depending on where you are in life. Thanks Plato, for reminding me [...]
Since I purchased them, I have been making an effort to complete my Great Books of the Western World reading list. I think this is the year to do it. My goal is to complete at least year one of the suggest 10 year reading plan. With any luck, maybe I will get deep into [...]
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