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...
Words Seldom Seen 1
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...
Charles Krauthammer RIP
"You’re betraying your whole life if you don’t say what you think, and you don’t say it honestly and...
Perplexed
In Russia today Stalin is the bad guy. The dead Tsar is a Saint. Lenin who killed the Tsar is still a hero. Putin is a...
Multi-lingual
"I speak all languages except Greek." "Oh. So do you speak Russian." "No. Russian is Greek to...
