Chris Lynch's slanted view on sports, politics and entertainment. Please send thoughts or comments to chris.lynch@gmail.com
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Please use AI. Worth a read.
- Jonathan Turley: Joe Biden confessed to everything on tape.
- The ethics of journalism in an era of ideology. Junger's writing often make me wonder if his bias has colored his thinking (or possibly mine has). But he always makes me think.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Sebastian Junger - Oh, Graham. So many are falling into the trap of thinking "but Hitler loved his dog" trying to find an excuse for the inexcusable.
- Jonathan Turley on post-Platner politics.
- Why it's so hard hard to break John Deere's control over farming.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Meet the A-11 Thunderhog - the replacement for the A-10 Warthog.
- From the archives: The Five Superpowers.
- Sebastian Junger and the ultimate truth about war. And what love means.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Elon Musk didn't just leave Delaware - he started a stampede.
- Jonathan Turley on a war of words at the Supreme Court. Tempest in a tea cup?
- DataRepublican on the dignity Salazar didn't define. Dignity like courage is not something a government bureaucrat can revoke.
- Sebastian Junger: Clinging to the outside of a train. Again dignity and courage can't be bestowed - they have to be earned.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Arbitration case could bring change to college sports' "messy middle." 18 Nebraska football players sue over NIL rights. Do you now or have you ever supported the CSC?
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Mass vs RFK Jr. over Dunkin' Donuts. Think a Kennedy would know enough not to mess with Dunkin's in Mass.
- The sinking of the Dena was textbook.
- The hidden insurance rules keeping MLB star from the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
- Sebastian Junger: What it feels like to get blown up. Some thoughts on the US military involvement in Iran.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Sebastian Junger: The loss of the Lily Jean. As the snow was falling during that storm I thought of The Perfect Storm and hoped there were no boats caught on the ocean in this weather. Sadly my fears were true.
- NASA finally acknowledges the elephant in the room about the SLS rocket. Slow and expensive is no way to go through life.
- Elon Musk getting serious about orbital data centers in space.
- Making any writing clear and concise is a skill. A skill that should be appreciated.
More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Kevin Kelly: The march of nines (and self-driving cars).
- Glenn Reynolds: Squids, Ink, and Minnesota's Corrupt Machine. He's not wrong.
- Sebastian Junger: Young men and how the Democrats lost them (HT Execupundit)
- Do you have high blood pressure - or badly measured blood pressure?
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
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Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!
Some quotes you may enjoy.
Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"The point of journalism is the truth. The point of journalism is to improve society." - Sebastian Junger
"Death makes everything else sad. But death only scares." - Ray Bradbury
"Having a phone in your pocket is like always carrying around a glazed donut that constantly temps you to snack on it - but if you do, you know it will ruin your appetite." - Ruby LaRocca
"More dreams die from a lack of confidence than a lack of competence. But while confidence is often a byproduct of accomplishments, it also comes from how you talk to yourself." - Shane Parrish
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking." - Charles Krauthammer
"The hardest thing you're ever going to do in your life is fail at something, and if you don't start failing at things, you will not live a full life." - Sebastian Junger
"Pensions, paychecks make men do things they shouldn't." - James O'Keefe
"I cultivate empty space as a way of life for the creative process." - Josh Waitzkin
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labor, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death - these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilized man." - C.S. Lewis
"If you only look for patterns of the past, you won't venture far." - Scott Belsky
"If you don't give young men a good and useful group to belong to belong to, they will create a bad group to belong to." - Sebastian Junger
"Stay humble or get humbled." - Jocko Willink
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - John Steinbeck
"What I've learned in my life is if someone is acting badly, they're in pain. It's a really simple rule, they're either scared or in pain." - Sebastian Junger
"Journalists aren't neutral - they're the cavalry in the culture wars." - Naval Ravikant
"All of man's troubles arise because he cannot sit in a room quietly by himself." - Blaise Pascal
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"First ask yourself who you want to be, and then do what you have to do." - Epictetus
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - John Steinbeck
"What I've learned in my life is if someone is acting badly, they're in pain. It's really a simple rule, they're either scared or in pain." - Sebastian Junger
"Journalists aren't neutral - they're the cavalry in the culture wars." - Naval Ravikant
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"First ask yourself who you want to be, and then do what you have to do." - Epictetus
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - John Steinbeck
"What I've learned in my life is if someone is acting badly, they're in pain. It's really a simple rule, they're either scared or in pain." - Sebastian Junger
"Journalists aren't neutral - they're the cavalry in the culture wars." - Naval Ravikant
"In order for men to do great evil, they must first believe they are doing good." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Of all the cards you can pick in the game of life, choose intelligence and drive. You can trade those two for almost anything else." - Naval Ravikant
"Sir, there is nothing which has been yet contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern." - Samuel Johnson
