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"I would like to say 'This book is written to the glory of God', but nowadays this would be the trick of a cheat, i.e., it would not be correctly understood."--Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."--Soren Kierkegaard

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Not even slow sculpture

What is the act of understanding? Can I make you understand? How? How would I do that? I'm listening to Terry Gross interview ...

"Let's All Be a Little Less Piggy"*

I'm always fascinated by these arguments , especially when they directly reference King and/or Gandhi: People will behave better,...

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Compare and Contrast

I have confidence that Kim Jong Un will honor the contract we signed &, even more importantly, our handshake. We agreed to the denucle...

Oxygen is flammable

What a dangerous thing for this "president" to do, giving oxygen to ultra right militia who don't respect the law or the con...

Monday, July 09, 2018

The Very Model Of A Modern Major Elitist

Huh? Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, shared a Facebook post Monday claiming that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) wa...

"Children Just Want To Be With Their Parents"

Watched the documentary on Fred Rogers over the weekend, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" It was all about children, of course...

Cui Bono?

The United States is spending far more on NATO than any other Country. This is not fair, nor is it acceptable. While these countries have ...

Sunday, July 08, 2018

More Reasons Harvard Should Distance Itself from Former Professors

So Alan Dershowitz is shilling a book. The first I heard of this, it was because he said on the Sunday Morning gabfest somewhere in the ...

Saturday, July 07, 2018

Sure, that's normal.....

Jordan repeated this distinction between 'locker room talk' and a formal complaint. Bret Baier caught and pressed him about whethe...

Thursday, July 05, 2018

Maybe because those are the people who would work for him?

Pruitt resignation letter. pic.twitter.com/rPkWBlmsV4 — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 5, 2018 I apologize for being so crude, but it...

Wednesday, July 04, 2018

Your Crazy Uncle Is In The White House

The OPEC Monopoly must remember that gas prices are up & they are doing little to help. If anything, they are driving prices higher as...

Tuesday, July 03, 2018

Winter Is Coming

That time of year thou may'st in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the...

MAGA by working with foreign companies to crush American companies?

Now that Harley-Davidson is moving part of its operation out of the U.S., my Administration is working with other Motor Cycle companies wh...

Not just for breakfast anymore

In the lead up to a story about Brexit (a lesson politicians should have learned eons ago: never bet the ranch, or the country, that th...

Monday, July 02, 2018

My Brother's Keeper...or not.

The philosopher and author, as the PBS Newshour identified him , said a society like ours is driving itself to disaster by creating intra...

Sunday, July 01, 2018

This is how you do it

This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University. A far cry fr...

Don't Really Care What His Supporters Think...

Dear @realDonaldTrump : The "dumbest" law you refer to is called the United States Constitution. Specifically the 14th Amendment...

Saturday, June 30, 2018

Res ipsa loquitor, y'all

I never pushed the Republicans in the House to vote for the Immigration Bill, either GOODLATTE 1 or 2, because it could never have gotten en...

Getting Personal

When people come into our Country illegally, we must IMMEDIATELY escort them back out without going through years of legal maneuvering. Our ...

Thursday, June 28, 2018

And the basement in the pizza parlor....

The shooter in Maryland is reportedly refusing to give his name and carried no ID. Will it be a surprise if he turns out to be a "...

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