Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Life Lessons from a Pro Bowler. When I read "pro bowler" I thought football.

- From the archives: Four levels of reading.

- A far-sighted warning from 1961. Fear many may not even remember Eisenhower never mind his warnings.

- Inside the latest bill to "save" college sports.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Let's fix college football with common sense - by Louisiana governor Jeff Landry.

- Don Surber on Monroe crossing the Delaware. Some history I was not aware of. (HT Cultural Offering)

- Rob Henderson: Lesson's I learned from Thomas Sowell's memoir.

- Here's why Pritzker should celebrate the Supreme Court ruling on the National Guard.

Cows Don't Give Milk

What a great story - something that should be shared by every parent to every child.

Probably only slightly related but the story immediately made me think of the AJ Jacobs book Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey in which the author sets out to thank every single person involved in producing his morning coffee. 

Life Lesson

From the book Barbarians at the Gate:

During the 1950's Lou Roberts often took his teenage son George [Roberts later to be one of the founders of the leverage buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts] along to business meetings. At an American Petroleum Institute conference one year, father and son sat by a dirt-caked wildcatter in cowboy boots while listening to a speech by the chairman of Humble Oil, the predecessor to Exxon. 

"Which one of those two men would you like to be?" Lou Roberts asked his son afterward.

"I'd rather be like the guy up on stage, the businessman," young George answered.

The businessman, his father explained, had 50,000 employees to watch over, a long, tiring workday, and could expect a pension of several hundred thousand dollars on retirement. The wildcatter, on the other hand, had maybe 30 employees, several dozen oil wells that pumped away while he slept, and was probably worth $5 million.

"Now who would you rather be?" Lou Roberts asked.