Words Seldom Seen: Empirical
Empirical Adjective, Derived from experience, not theoretical. Example: "Communism was a good theory but it certainly...
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L’Shana Tova
Today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. A happy and sweet New Year to all. “L’shana tova, tikatevu” This...
Markets and Morality
"It is immoral to be in opposition to the market system and not live (somewhere in Vermont or Northwestern Afghanistan)...
Hotel Stairs (From September 2008)
Here is an example of competing interests, power groups and unintended consequences. On our recent New England trip we...
Les Wisdom
"You don’t get in life what you want, you get in life what you are." Les Brown Motivational...
Alfonso X on Aging
"Burn old logs. Drink old wine. Read old books. Keep old friends." Alfonso X of...
Prosperity
The only Frank Lloyd Wright designed house in Oregon I just posted the word empirical in my Words Seldom Seem thread...
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Syncretism The union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy, language or...
Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her...
Pets (Churchill Quote)
Chaplin "Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you as an...
