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

On the TV.............................. David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser debut as Starsky & Hutch

 

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

 

“At a basic level, governing is about taking care of businesses and families,” she explained to me recently. “It all comes down to raising the quality of life.”

-Joel Kotkin, from here

A different drummer...............

 

...........I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

peace from............................

 

. . . he came to see that success might be another word for peace and peace, at heart, for freedom from senseless striving.

-Pico Iyer, Aflame: Learning from Silence

thanks David

Some truth here....................

 

He is a powerful figure, but he is also a vehicle for the Normals, at home and abroad, who have finally had enough.

-Glenn Reynolds

the power lies within.................

 

47.  If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.  If the cause of the trouble lies in your own character, set about reforming your principles; who is there to hinder you?

-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: Book Eight

Meme central..........................

 

      much more fun here

Be careful what you pray for........................

 

          more fun here

Helping me.............................

..............in many ways, including the leasing of office space:

 People are social beings, not mere transaction devices or vending machines. They seek to connect with others and to find a higher purpose . . .

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

At the cinema........Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 

learning...................

 

The most difficult part of adult learning is choosing to learn.

-Seth Godin, from here

strategy..................

 

. . . professionalism and decorum comprise the ultimate risk management strategy.

-Craig Coben

the power of ............................

 

..........................................stories.

dogs........

 

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

-attributed to Diogenes

a curious thing.........................

 

One of the curious things about political opinions is how often the same people line up on the opposite sides of different issues.  The issues themselves may have no intrinsic connection with each other.  They may range from military spending to drug laws to monetary policy to education.  Yet the same familiar faces can be found glaring at each other from opposite sides of the political fence, again and again.  It happens too often to be coincidence and it is too uncontrolled to be a plot.  A closer look at the arguments on both sides often shows that they are reasoning from fundamentally different premises.  These different premises—often implicit—are what provide the consistency behind the repeated opposition of individuals and groups on numerous, unrelated issues.  They have different visions of how the world works.

-Thomas Sowell,  A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

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

 

It was early February and snowing again in Boston.  I felt as if it had been snowing since Thanksgiving.  Or perhaps since the autumn equinox.  The TV meteorologists, talking excitedly every night about more record snowfall numbers, and about ten more inches than we'd gotten ten years ago, continued to treat the whole thing like porn.

-Mike Lupica, channeling his inner Robert B. Parker, Hot Property: A Spenser Novel

About perfection................

 

. . . it's precisely because you'll never produce perfect work that you might as well get on with doing the best work you can . . . There are no guarantees—except the guarantee that holding back from life instead is a recipe for anguish.

-Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals

hangs.......................

 

Everything hangs on one's thinking . . . a man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

-attributed to Seneca

The James Webb Space Telescope..................

 

............................................continues to surprise.  Hate it when our "models" don't work:

They contain a significant amount of nitrogen, far more than what we observe in our Sun, while most other metals are present in lower quantities. This suggests there were processes at play in the early universe we don’t yet fully understand.

JWST has shown our models of how stars drive the chemical evolution of galaxies are still incomplete, meaning we still don’t fully understand the conditions that led to our existence.

as culled from here

image via

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

 

    One of my favorites.....John Klemmer....Touch

 

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

 

Flying in January should be a violation of the Codex.  Between the howling storm and the incessant fog in my goggles, I can't see shit as we cut through the blustering snow squall above the mountains near Basgiath.  Hoping we're almost through the worst of it, I grip the pommels of my saddle with gloved hands and hold tight.

-Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

Unimaginable................

 

                    via

                     enlargeable photo and description here

Coyote Blog.....................

 

.........................................is back in business.  Welcome back, Warren.  You were missed.

Wimped out.....................

 

...................choose not to walk this morning:

Shortcuts...........................

 

The successful learn vicariously; the foolish insist on firsthand pain.

-Farnum Street

One of the greatest...........................

 

...............................letters ever written.

hobbies.......................

 

                         thanks Chris

Understanding "wokeness".................

 

...................Paul Graham writes the primer.