Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Did the FBI and the Mueller team hide Russiagate documents? Very damning.
- Why America needs its myths. "Perhaps we moderns lost something along the way." Amen.
- Reforming Naval Shipbuilding. Good suggestions.
- Will the House reconciliation bill wreck Trump's dreams of nuclear power?
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Minimum wage around the world
- Heh Heh - the video NASA doesn't want you to see
- American Crisis: How we lost faith in our future and how we get it back.
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?" - John Archibald Wheeler
"But speak up you must. There is strength in numbers and I assure you, the numbers are there." - Bari Weiss
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington
"The French social and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville saw the vitality of American associational life, along with the decentralized nature of the federal system, as the keys to the success of the new democracy."
Ignoring for a moment that we're a republic and not a democracy - I'm left wondering if some of the problems we face today are because those two key aspects of American life have changed?
Americans are no longer "joiners" and associations and friends "in real life" seems to becoming a thing of the past. Spending so much time in the Metaverse seems an awful waste to me. "Bowling alone" is increasingly a problem.
So too is the fact that government in the US has become much more centralized than ever before. And more powerful. The government of 1918 wouldn't have had the power to lock down the nation like we recently did.
Are we losing two of the things that de Tocqueville saw that made us great? I worry we are trending in the wrong direction. I also worry we may not be able to get off the path we're on.
Cultural Offering has an excellent post on why Americans are so fat. You should make time to go through the post and let the information sink in on how bad the American diet is. If you have kids - go through the post with them so they can learn how they are being manipulated and their health being put at risk.
Eat real food - eliminate anything that comes in a box or a package from your diet. Only drink things that occur in nature. Soda is perhaps one of the worst things you can put in your body. I've narrowed down the things I drink to pretty much water, coffee (black), tea, and beer (we've been drinking beer for thousands of years).
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"The Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land." - Michael Shaara
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
"The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks." - Mortimer Adler
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Soren Kierkegaard
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"In a long-term game, it's positive sum. We're all baking the pie together. We're trying to make it as big as possible. And in a short term game, we're cutting up the pie." - Naval Ravikant
"He who buys what he doesn't need steals from himself." - Swedish Proverb
"If you're good at something, never do it for free." - The Joker
"I believe we're on the edge of about 800 more years of American centuries. The biggest problem is all the people who see a problem. It's very fashionable to think the end is near." - Tom Wolfe
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met." - Yoshida Kenko
"Censorship is telling a man he can't have steak just because a baby can't chew it." - Mark Twain
"Liberty is the parent of science and of virtue, and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free." - Thomas Jefferson
"I always spent money on books. I never viewed that as an expense. That's an investment to me." - Naval Ravikant
"The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think and more anxiously I inquire; the less I seem to know. ... Do justly; Love mercy; Walk humbly; This is enough for you and to do." - John Adams
"Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight ." - Psalm 144
"For about 54 years, people have ask me not to keep saying 'I love America.' Well I do and I'm not ashamed. Don't leave it; Love it." - George Foreman
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Living the Dream: The Urgency of Now
- A bit of lost history - the day MLK was stabbed in Harlem.
- President Trump continued the tradition of leaving a message to his successor in the Oval Office. Curious as to what that message was.
Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.
America's sustained competitive advantage stems from our vast natural resources and our freedoms. Of the two our freedoms are by far the most important and irreplaceable. And we are chipping away at the bedrock of our freedoms - sometimes it seems with sledgehammers... No need to call me Lord... Peter Gabriel's first choice for the female lead on the song Don't Give Up wasn't Kate Bush - it was Dolly Parton! Just another example of how legendary Dolly is... Sadly this is true!... Time to dust off my Ben Ben Theory. I have a theory that if you substituted Ben Stiller for Ben Affleck and vice versa in any of their movies - the movie would automatically become much more interesting to watch... You may be cool but you'll never be as cool as Debbie Harry lounging in her New York apartment under an Andy Warhol portrait of herself...
