I don't know. We were down from about 6 pm last night until about 9 am this morning. This crash coincided with an unusually intense flurry of spam and some other problems (including some random characters appearing in some of the posts). I'd like to think that we were hacked by the White…
From today's press conference at the White House: Reporter: Slides from a prewar briefing show that by this point, the U.S. expected that the Iraqi army would be able to stabilize the country and there would be as few as 5,000 U.S. troops there. What went wrong? Tony Snow: I'm…
Here's a good essay about the need to face reality in Iraq, written by a retired Army general who now teaches at Yale.
We know the military has been struggling to meet its recruiting goals, so it should come as no surprise that Uncle Sam wants you, even if you are a convicted felon. Theft? That's OK. Drugs? Yup, that's OK, too. Writing bad checks? Check. If you're willing to go to Iraq and…
I do love quotes! A novel in every sentence, as I see it.
I’ve been collecting quotes for years. These are quotes that I noticed or noticed anew over the past six months. There’s no particular theme here, though many of these do concern education/enlightenment:
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t understand.
Sir Edward Appleton
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner , New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
Edgar Watson Howe
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling
“We do not inherit the world from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”
Navajo proverb
