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Quotes for Today

Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.

"Adam and Eve saw that they were naked, and they became afraid. Unconscious denial of their animal nature set in very quickly... They began to disassociate from their body. They now saw themselves as having a body, rather than just being it." - Eckhart Tolle

"You can reduce your stress by not having a strong opinion about everything." - Vala Afshar

"If tobacco companies get in trouble for selling products that give people cancer, then universities should get in trouble for selling student debt to students with worthless degrees." - Naval Ravikant

"Another flaw in human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." - Kurt Vonnegut

Student Debt

"Student debt is mostly held by the richer half of the US population. Serious question: would it do more good if instead of giving money to people with student debt, you gave money to people without it?" - Paul Graham

Excellent question from Paul Graham - especially in light of the fact that 56% of all outstanding student debt is for graduate degrees.  

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Greatly amused with all the anger and hatred directed at Tim Tebow and the Jacksonville Jaguars for signing him as a tight end. Why they did it is clear - Tebow remains very popular and can sell tickets for the Jags. Since his signing Tebow actually has the top selling jersey in the NFL - more jerseys sold than either Patrick Mahomes or Tom Brady. Not bad for a guy lucky to take the last roster spot on the team...  Heh Heh... Speaking of Tom Brady - he actually has more career rushing TD's (25) than running back teammate Leonard Fournette (23). Just find that interesting... I hope the young people who voted for Joe Biden because they believed his pledge to cancel their student debt have learned an important life lesson about trusting a politician (but I'm not holding my breath)... It may be just me but I really don't miss the days when it seemed like Bono from U2 was either called on to comment or felt the need to speak up on seemingly every socio-political issue of the day. He's kind of faded into the woodwork which is fine with me... Would love to see the New England Patriots trade for Julio Jones. Wonder if an offer of a second round pick along with receiver N'Keal Harry would be enough to get it done?...  

Linky Links

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

- Interesting review of The Big Chill a movie I've probably seen a dozen times but the older I get the less appealing it becomes because the characters are so whiny and entitled. (HT Newmark's Door)

- Biden Administration may be hiding damning report on student debt crisis. 

- VDH: Tuning Out Wokeism

- 4 Ways to Simplify the Complex

- Heh Heh