Fauci in Retrospect
Here's a video of Fauci, a lying sack of shit, claiming that other scientists were responsible for a (dishonest) paper that he himself engineered. A low point in the history of public health.
Free Speech and the Rule of Law
Why do people we abhor have the right to say abhorrent things? Because we believe in the rule of law across the board. Another example offered by Alan Charles Kors: "We do not provide jury trials only for people we find decent."
Regarding Middle East Conflicts, FIRE Weighs in on the Side of . . . Free Speech
FIRE's October 25 announcement:
The government cannot force public colleges to derecognize Students for Justice in Palestine chapters. That's just what State University System of Florida Chancellor Ray Rodrigues, reportedly at the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis, is trying to do.
FIRE did not issue this statement because it is taking sides regarding the Middle East conflict. FIRE doesn't take sides regarding the substance of disputes. What FIRE does with unrelenting consistency is to advocate for free speech for all sides of every dispute.
Don’t Judge an Institution by its Title
We have schools that don't teach, public health organizations that don't protect our health and a Department of "Defense," an unsatiatiable perpetrator of violence and bullshit, the world's biggest bully and propaganda machine. What do each of these institutions have in common? Economist Thomas Sowell's advice:
When examining institutions, it is critically important "to distinguish between:Knowledge and Decisions, Preface to 1996 Edition.
(1) examining issues and institutions in terms of their process characteristics versus
(2) examining them in terms of their proclaimed goals or ideals….
17 Life-Learnings to Celebrate the 17th Birthday of Maria Popova’s “The Marginalian”
This morning I received 17 wonderful gifts. Maria Popova’s website has been one of my places of respite for many years. In her most recent article, she celebrates her 17 years of online writing at “The Marginalian” by crystallizing 17 lessons she has learned along the way. Here is Maria’s introduction to her 17 lessons:
The Marginalian was born on October 23, 2006, under an outgrown name, to an outgrown self that feels to me now almost like a different species of consciousness. (It can only be so — if we don’t continually outgrow ourselves, if we don’t wince a little at our former ideas, ideals, and beliefs, we ossify and perish.)
What follows are merely the titles to Popova's 17 lessons. She discusses each of these more fully at her website. Everything she writes is, somehow, both analytically precise and poetic. I've printed this list and it has gone up on my wall so that I have daily reminders:
1. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind.
2. Do nothing for prestige or status or money or approval alone
3. Be generous.
4. Build pockets of stillness into your life.
5. You are the only custodian of your own integrity.
6. Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.
7. “Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.”
8. Seek out what magnifies your spirit.
9. Don’t be afraid to be an idealist.
10. Don’t just resist cynicism — fight it actively.
11. Question your maps and models of the universe, both inner and outer, and continually test them against the raw input of reality.
12 There are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives.
13. In any bond of depth and significance, forgive, forgive, forgive. And then forgive again.
14. Choose joy.
16. Unself.
17.Everything is eventually recompensed, every effort of the heart eventually requited, though not always in the form you imagined or hoped for.
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