Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- The Earth could be heading towards a "mini-ice age"as the Sun enters a decades long Grand Solar Minimum. The scientists saying the Earth is warming must be pissed at this news.
- How awesome would this be if it were true!
- Spotify is buying Bill Simmons The Ringer.
- Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas passes away aged 103. I did not know that Douglas hired Stanley Kubrick to direct Spartacus. If the Golden Age of Hollywood was the 1940's and 50's then Kirk Douglas is the last of that breed. If it also includes the 60's then Sean Connery and Clint Eastwood are still kicking.
- Steven Pressfield: Resistance = Fear
- Thomas Mann's American Democracy Lecture Tour. A bit of history that I was unaware of. Agree wholeheartedly with the idea that our democracy and history need to be cared for but I find it ironic that the author states "It is a lesson we are in dire need of today as we watch democracy slip away in Trump's America." Whereas those on the right would argue "It is a lesson we are in dire need of today as we watch democracy slip away as the Democratic party embraces socialism." Maybe the fears of both sides can help protect and defend the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and our historic legacy. (HT The Happy Curmudgeon)
Democracy is only slipping away because the demonrats seem hell bent on socialism and the destruction of America, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
ReplyDeleteDon't disagree but perhaps the core problem is education. If students are taught that certain things are "rights" like abortion they aren't taught and don't understand why we have things like a Bill of Rights and why those rights (which are in the Constitution) are so important.
ReplyDeleteThey don't even properly understand the First Amendment of free speech. Never mind Second Amendment rights which they seem to think can be just taken away. Because their teachers didn't "teach" them otherwise.
This is why school choice is so important for the future of our nation in my opinion.