Context Matters
Pet store photo — and the text added to it, even the title — by my friend Al Boss (who even has a super-cool name, and provided permission to use his photo and words here).
Thinking
Yep: We Talk About That
My friends range from liberal to conservative, and atheist to pious. And they all enrich my life and my understanding of the world.
Get a Read on This
Addison (1672–1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician, and the co-founder of The Spectator magazine in 1711. Yep: they had magazines in 1711.
Plato Speaks
Think before you speak.
The Hotel’s Advice
I took this photo: I saw it on the wall at the last hotel I stayed at (in Tooele, Utah). Seriously? Someone thought this was useful advice? (“Use stairs, not elevator” might be helpful, but this?!)
Memorial Day Reminder
Memorial Day is the day set aside to remember those who died while serving in the armed forces. It’s the day that living veterans pay tribute to those who didn’t come back from war, and on this day, they’d rather you remember the fallen, not them. Be sure to see last year’s post too.
Fun Fact: Patriotism
“To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.”
An Important Lesson
Photo: The 16th President with his youngest son, Tad (1864), educating him with the laptop of his time.
Alternative Realities
Tillerson warned that democracy in America is threatened by a “growing crisis in ethics and integrity.” Mr. Tillerson is correct.
Orwell on Thinking
It’s Orwell Week (#3 of 3) George Orwell was a pen name for Eric Arthur Blair (1903–1950), an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic best known for the novella Animal Farm (1945), and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Obviously, the term “Orwellian” – descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices – refers to his writing. He himself … See the Meme