750 Years of Purity
The Industrial Revolution: wrecking everything on the planet for about a third of those 750 years.
Thinking
Common Sense
That completely makes sense to me.
Always Has Been
Asimov (January 2, 1920–April 6, 1992) is one of my favorite writers of all time, and was about as pro-intellectual as anyone could be.
The To-Do List
The best part? It feels good to get some forward movement.
What Are the Odds?
Not that I expect ticket sales to go down — but stop with phone fiddling while driving!
What They Think
So many waste so much time and energy over what others think about them. Don’t worry about it until you already place value in their opinions.
The Producers
“I was number one five years in a row at the box office. But what’s really stunning is that no one until me had ever gone from number one to number 38 in one year.” —Reynolds in 2005.
Choosy Mothers
Even if vaccines did cause autism (and they don’t!), they’d still be worth it: the odds of severe disability or death are much higher than the fake risk.
Book Learnin’
Obviously this sort of thing had come up during dinner conversations before! They helped me pronounce it, and I’ve remembered it since.
Ya Gotta Believe
I’ve seen it attributed to Kurt Vonnegut. Supposedly the full context is….