Politically incorrect..........................?

..................................Moi?  Probably won't be changing my name.

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Gone, but not forgotten.................

Ricky Nelson...........................................................Traveling Man

Epizeuxis..........................

The very cool Burning Pine blog offers a music review and broadens our knowledge all at the same time.  You can look it up.

At last.............................................!

..................................Some really cool news from the LA Times.

When he says "essential".................

.................................................................he means essential:

On humility.................

"Economics and economic history also teach us humility:  No economist in 1900 could have figured out what farmers, horse-shoers, ice deliverers, street-sweepers, and so forth would do when those jobs disappeared.  The people involved did.  Knowledge of our own ignorance is useful." 

-Arnold Kling citing John Cochrane commenting on Russ Roberts.   Start here.

When soul overmasters sense...............

“There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds.” 

-Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

On continuing education..............

"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."

-Attributed to Robert E. Lee

Fifty years ago...............................

Soul Survivors.....................................Expressway To Your Heart

I never knew..............................

...................................................that I liked Amal Clooney before.

"The wife of actor George Clooney, who represents victims of IS rapes and kidnappings, told a U.N. meeting that what's "shocking" is not just the group's brutality but the "passive" response by the world's nations to the campaign to investigate its crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice."

Gone, but not forgotten....................

Dean Martin (and a few friends)............................from Rio Bravo

When in our neighborhood...........

.................................................you must visit Cultural Offering.

Our early Spring......................

.................................................................hits the Pause button:

Meanwhile, The Dog goes on Spring Break...

Fifty years ago...............................

The Buckinghams.................................................Kind Of A Drag

A little fun.................................

..............................................................with Halls of Fame.

Can I get an Amen..............................?

Number of Private Jobs Created By all Past Presidents Combined: Zero

So the headline reads at the Coyote Blog.  We would all do well to remember that people, small businesses, corporations, partnerships (collectively known as risk taking entrepreneurs) create private jobs.  The government does not. The president does not.  Private enterprise does.  We forget that at our own peril.

Two wise men.......................

.............................................................and their ageless lessons:

One, the importance of being a lifelong learner.  Two, keep my life simple.  Three, closely guard my character and reputation.  Four, not take life too seriously and stay happy always.  These are apart from the hundreds of lessons I have learned from these two wise men on how to be sensible with my money.

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Gone, but not forgotten...................

Dusty Springfield...........................I Only Want to Be With You

Am I the only...................

...........................................................................one missing Jeff?

When you lose the Rolling Stone......

We have to remember that the unpopularity of the press was a key to Trump's election. Journalists helped solve the billionaire's accessibility problem by being a more hated group than the arrogant rich. Trump has people believing he shares a common enemy with them: the news media. When we do badly, he does well.

-Matt Taibbi, as culled from here

Looking out the bathroom window........

Fifty years ago.................................

The Doors....(short version)......................................Light My Fire



way longer version here

Opening paragraphs......................

  
     It is a striking fact that the nation's most famous soldier was born to parents whose religion preached ardent conscientious objection to all mortal wars.  But the truth of a life is never contained in its summarizing labels;  the influences that shaped our thirty-fourth president were deeper, wider, and more idiosyncratic.  As Ike himself acknowledged, he wasn't an exceptional student or a particularly promising military candidate.  He once told his wife, Mamie, "If I'm lucky. I'll be a colonel."  His ambitions didn't reach farther than that.  Yet he went on to become Supreme Allied Commander, assemble the greatest fighting force in the history of mankind, defeat Adolf Hitler's war machine, save Western civilization from fascism, and manage to get elected president twice by decisive majorities.  He had never dreamed of being a general, much less president of the United States, but that's where life took him.

-Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney,  Three Days In January:  Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission

The warmth of the sun..................

Gone, but not forgotten.......................

Jim Capaldi................................................................That's Love

At last.....................................!

.................The discovery of some unsettled science:  the question of the expansion of the Universe.  The work done by these scientists fascinates me.  I don't understand much about it, and I suspect that, while their knowledge and smarts dwarf mine, they don't either.  What a puzzle!  Still, the question I would like a serious answer to is:  If it is expanding, into what?  And I'm sorry, but this doesn't strike me as much of an answer, or it is an answer that only raises more questions.  For myself, I side with the Huxley quote below.

I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.

- Aldous Huxley

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Fifty years ago.............................

Bobby Gentry.......................................................Ode To Billie Joe

On finding entertainment wherever you can...

"If history is our guide, this odd situation, in which the most famous “liar” in the world also has access to the world’s best secrets, will be more entertaining than dangerous. We’re seeing that entertainment now."

-Scott Adams, from this post about Trump and "wiretapping."   

Ed. Note: The trailing post, a quote from Martin Gurri's post on cui bono (or who benefits from Trump), must surely apply to Adams.  The boy is on a serious hot streak.

Cui bono....................................

"I know that’s a tricky question, if only because our political life at the moment resembles the food fight in Animal House."

-Martin Gurri, as culled from here




cui bono wiki here

This is what the National Lampoon..............

..................would be doing if it was still doing.  What a hoot.

Thought we were already out-gunned..........

“I want dignity and authority for women,” she said. “My code is Amazonism. I want weapons.”

-Camille Paglia, as extracted from this interesting interview

Gone, but not forgotten.........................

Sammy Johns...........................................................Chevy Van

Wondering if their feelings are hurt..........

via Ka-Ching

Believing this to be true...................

One word sums up our country’s achievements: miraculous. From a standing start 240 years ago – a span of time less than triple my days on earth – Americans have combined human ingenuity, a market system, a tide of talented and ambitious immigrants, and the rule of law to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers.

-Warren Buffett, as excerpted from this February 2017 letter

Well, yeah.........................

"Those firms who are able to pay more attention to their clients and help them make better, more informed decisions can separate themselves from the pack."

-Ben Carlson, from this post touching on the "active vs passive" investment management debate

Our complicated world...............

...................................is about to become more complicated.

Checking in with....................

......................Archibald Alexander Leach Cary Grant:

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

I am reminded of a piece of advice my father gave me regarding shoes. ...He said it is better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones. One pair made of fine leather could outlast four inferior pairs and, if well-cared-for, would continue to proclaim your good judgment and taste no matter how old they become.

I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.

To write an autobiography, you've got to expose other people. I hope to get out of this world as gracefully as possible, without embarrassing anyone.

Got part of this down...................

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” 

-Christopher Morley

Fifty years ago...........................

The Box Tops.............................................................The Letter

Question............................

“[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.” 

-Joseph Heller

There are countless fabulous blogs..........

..........................out there in the Intertunnel.   Here is one of them.

Gone, but not forgotten.....................

Long John Baldry...................Don't Try To Lay No Boogie-Woogie
                                                      On The King Of Rock And Roll

Hopefully forward.................

"It is not given to us to predict the course of our own existence on Earth;  we are forever groping forward."

-Jesse Norman

On the need to get out more...........

"He that lives in a college, after his mind is sufficiently stocked with learning, is like a man, who having build, rigged, and victualled, a ship, should lock her up in a dry dock."

-Edmund Burke

Well, okay.................................

"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality.   It’s a way of understanding it."

-Lloyd Alexander 

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Fifty years ago....................

Lulu....................................................................To Sir With Love

On hospitality............................

“We show hospitality to strangers not merely because they need it, but because we need it, too. The stranger at the door is the living symbol and memory that we are all strangers here. This is not our house, our table, our food, our lodging; this is God's house and table and food and lodging. We were pilgrims and wanderers, aliens and strangers, even enemies of God, but we, too, were welcomed into this place. To show hospitality to the stranger is, as Gordon Lathrop has observed, to say, "We are beggars here together. Grace will surprise us both.” 

-Thomas G. Long

Gone, but not forgotten........................

Etta James.................................................................Tell Mama

Is this a great country, or what...............?

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Highly recommended..................

If your creativity is flagging, this easy-to-read, not-too-long, whimsically-illustrated book could be just what the doctor ordered.  MacKenzie, the Creative Paradox at Hallmark Cards, has fought the good fight against corporate blandness.  His tale is highly recommended.

Quick, somebody arrest that man..................

"Orville Wright did not have a pilot's license."

-Gordon MacKenzie

If we do not let go, we make prisoners of ourselves

    To be fully free to create, we must first find the courage and willingness to let go:

          Let go of the strategies that have worked for us in the past...
          Let go of our biases, the foundation of our illusions...
          Let go of our grievances, the source of our victimhood...
          Let go of our so-often-denied fear of being found unlovable.

     You will find it is not a one-shot deal, this letting go.  You must do it again and again and again.  It's kind of like breathing.  You can't breathe just once.  Try it: Breathe just once.  You'll pass out.

     If you stop letting go, your creative spirit will pass out.

     Now when I say let go, I do not mean reject.  Because when you let go of something, it will still be there for you when you need it.  But because you have stopped clinging, you will have freed yourself up to tap into other possibilities - possibilities that can help you deal with this world of accelerating change.

-Gordon MacKenzie,  Orbiting The Giant Hairball:  A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace

If I remember correctly..............

..................us history majors, circa 1973, never had to worry about the "transitive property of language."

Fifty years ago.................................

Aretha Franklin...................................................................Respect