As wishes go..........................

 

...................this one is worthy of us all.

Will be reading this book carefully.......

 

Whether you are in your twenties, or your nineties, or anywhere in between, a high-performance brain that is protected from degeneration is your most important possession—especially if it comes with a life-time guarantee.  Until very recently, that has simply not been feasible.  But times have changed—dramatically—and in this book I'll show you how to keep your brain youthful for a very long lifetime.

-Dale E. Bredesen, The Ageless Brain: How to Sharpen and Protect Your Mind for a Lifetime

On Trump's management style.........

 It may be the equivalent of changing the tires while the car is still moving, but the ultimate result may be much clearer authority, responsibility, and accountability.

a bad habit..............

 

. . . their judgment was based more upon blind wishing that upon any sound prediction; for it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.

-Thucydides

Ceaseless..................

 

...............................................flow.

One can only hope...................

 North America may suffer from some of the world’s poorest political leadership. Yet it seems destined to remain the wealthiest, most dominant place on Earth.

-Joel Kotkin, from here

I'd pay to watch this....................

 Have said this before but all the attention is currently on college football and their situation but the real changes to college sports will more greatly affect college basketball. Imagine how places with great post grad programs will do when they can award unlimited NIL and unlimited eligibility. How would you like to play a Harvard or Stanford in March Madness when their starting 5's are 24-years old with 5-years of experience each? One and done superior talent will be at a great disadvantage.

-Chris Lynch, from here

Me too..................

 

If you had to develop a simple rubric for ex ante rating political candidates’ priorities and policies as reflected in their campaign platforms/agendas, what might that look like?

What I would most like to see is an awareness of the capacity for government to do damage: to intervene overseas in ways that have bad consequences; to have programs corrupted by special interests; and to undertake new initiatives without addressing the failures and mismanagement of older programs. Also, I really wish we had a candidate who had managed an organization larger than a Senate staff. Dwight Eisenhower is the only President of the past hundred years who I think appreciated the strengths and weaknesses of large organizations.

-Arnold Kling, from here

magic and dreams

 

-as cut and pasted from this wondrous blog

One recommendation.....................

 

Wishing and hoping..........................

 When we agree to live simply, we have little to protect and no desire for acquisition, even for acquisition of any “moral capital.” When we imagine that we are better, holier, higher, more important to God than others, it is a very short step to “justified” arrogance or violence toward those others. It is almost inevitable, in fact, and we are witnessing today how it manifests itself at every level of our societies. If we could eliminate such manufactured and desired superiority, religion might finally become nonviolent in thought, word, and deed. 

-Richard Rohr, as cut-and-pasted from here

But, but, but.......................

 .........well, they beat the Bengals anyway.  Go Browns!

      more fun stuff here

A crimble wish......................

..............................the actual return of Sippican Cottage.

Wonderful! We can only hope.................

........................................................that this is true.

Harmonize..........................

      Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns.  His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.

-James Allen, from As A Man Thinketh

May 2019 be a truly wondrous year.......

Wishful thinking.......................

"... an outcome that allows, for one night at least, the faintest hope that the crazy train of American politics over the past two years may be slowing to a more sensible pace."

-Eric Boehm, as cut from here

As fantasies go, this is a pretty good one...

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