Find Something Beautiful Today

A winter wonderland. (Via) Headline stolen borrowed from Execupundit,

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words - even provocative or repugnant ones - are not violence. The answer to speech we do not like is more speech." - Douglas Murray

"A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others." - Confucius

"The more the Internet exposes people to new points of view, the angrier people get that different views exist." - Benedict Evans

"It was then that I realized that your choices come down to either ducking your head and running or stepping up and attacking your obstacles aggressively." - Mike Leach

Merry Christmas from Your Lawyer

We Were All Lied Too

Linky Links

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

- The Twitter Files - The FBI Connection. "Twitter's contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if they were a subsidiary."

- Fathers and sons.

- Don't think Biden would ever push back on Xi like this

- Facebook is also shadow banning.

Farnam Street Knowledge

The Common Denominator of Success.

"The common denominator of success - secret of success of every individual who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he or she formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.

It's just as true as it sounds and it's just as simple as it seems."

Long read but worth it. Lot's of truth and good practical advice such as, "Every single qualification for success is acquired through habit. People form habits and habits form futures."

5 Ingredients of Happiness

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Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Actually we're better when we're sober... But it's not as much fun... So we get drunk." - Shane MacGowan

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Marie Curie

"Wokeness doesn't exist above a certain IQ level." - Scott Adams

Modern Christmas Carol

 

Holy Shit!

Harsh but deservedly so. (Via)

Congressional Conflicts of Interest

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Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam

 Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.

John Wayne once said that every young man needs to let the badger loose every once and a while. With NFL games today and tomorrow - this young man will be letting the badger loose this weekend. As always - please Subscribe, hit the Like button, and share with others. 

John Wayne Explains Twitter Under Elon Musk

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Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

 "Me and my wife were happy for 20 years. Then we met." - Rodney Dangerfield

"When it comes to medicine and nutrition, subtract before you add." - Naval Ravikant 

"You have power over your mind not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius

"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather that the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions." - Ronald Reagan

NSA Employee of the Month

Keith Olbermann

 

Keith Olbermann's Twitter account has been suspended. I still maintain that the wind was taken out of this pompous windbag back when left-leaning SNL made fun of him. How anyone still takes him seriously is beyond me.

Life Advice from Naval

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Linky Links

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

- These sudden deaths have nothing to do with climate change (Chart via)

- Twitter broke its own rules to ban Trump

- Pac-Man in its heyday was a multi-billion industry whose income came in one quarter at a time.

- New study shows almost 50% remission of Type 2 Diabetes using just fasting. Too bad Big Pharma can't monetize fasting.

Well if the Shoe Fits

Donald Trump's NFT announcement was met with much derision - and rightly so. When I saw the announcement I originally thought of Charlie Munger urging people to first try not to be stupid (and these NFT's are just that) and also the line from the movie The American President, "Politics is perception, and if things don't work out, the amount of time it'll take you to go from being a hired gun to a cocktail party joke can be clocked with an egg timer."  (Picture via)

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"For it happens that books are the only article in which I am richer than my neighbors." - Thomas De Quincey

"Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst. Expect nothing. Savor everything." - Mark Manson

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." - Robert Frost

"Death twitches my ear; 'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.'" - Virgil