“Would I ever hear about children who don’t drown?” Hans Rosling in Factfulness In this quote Rosling is summing up how the news media get it wrong, not willfully, but because they focus on the ...Read More
Thomas Jefferson’s Tips for Living a Practical Life 1 Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.2 Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.3 Never spend your money before you ha...Read More
“State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters.” Friedrich Nietzsche Photo Credit: The butterfly festival Nurit and I ran into on June 6 while hiking the Horton Creek Trail near Payson....Read More
Recondite Recondite, adjective: Little known information, Abstruse The Guarded Gate was full of recondite information about New England politics...Read More
“Human beings have a strong dramatic instinct toward binary thinking.” Hans Rosling in Factfulness He goes on to point out that a lot of the world is not binary it is varied and seeing it as binar...Read More
It isn’t enough to sanitize, you also have to leave a physical sign that the area has been sanitized. Thank you Pedro! And so the pandemic response enters the “Security Theater” phas...Read More
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”Benjamin Franklin I’ll start with a disclaimer. I don’t watch much news on ...Read More