And we've been stretching a lot lately.....

 The trouble is that when the truth gets stretched far enough, something eventually breaks.

-Ted Lamade, from this post

A good question for today...........

 

Who spends money better: the person who spends his own money, or the person who spends other people's money?

-from the Calafia Beach Pundit, who loves his charts

such as this one...........................

A Constitution for Teenage Happiness...........

  The taut cable of high expectations has been slackened, and the result is the current mood: listlessness.

-Ruby LaRocca, from this award-winning essay

Life its ownself............................

 

...........................grandparenting is pretty great.

dread........................

 

And somewhere C. S. Lewis smiles.........

 

We have the greatest country on earth, the greatest constitution, the greatest economy, the greatest everything, and we’ve ended up fostering a political culture so generally nauseating that even Screwtape must be feeling a little sorry for us.

-John Podhoretz

Congratulations...........................

 

...................................are in order.

The art.....................................

 

.............................................of teaching.

Starting to think that.......................

 

................Bari Weiss is a national treasure:

What's become clear is the crisis of trust is more accurately a crisis of trustworthiness.

In other words, it's not that Americans have randomly stopped trusting the experts while softening toward the conspiracy theorists.  It's that so many experts have been exposed as partisan and unreliable and stopped deserving our trust.

-as culled from here