I do not believe that there are “happy” or “unhappy” families. There are families that undergo constant change, and there is an infinite supply of adjectives that apply to families. Everything that is true of families is also true of any other multi-individual group.
Category: Nobody Asked, But
Job Description
If you were the top political adviser to a politician, how much sense would it make to say that the advice-recipient made the worst political mistake in modern history?
Storm Watch
These days we get warnings, graphics, and hyperbole. I have a friend on Daufuskie Island, in Georgia, who says the worst part is the waiting. I suspect the waiting would be tolerable without the handwringing and flatscreen teevees.
Whodunit
I count among my major influences several writers who specialize or specialized in detective fiction, aka pulp fiction. I have come to consider many of the purveyors of this lurid fiction to be among the finest literary practitioners, literature producers, and philosophy masters. Who are some of these knights of the pen?
Paradigm Shift II
Can we bootstrap ourselves into another paradigm? It says here I don’t think so. With Rome, it took the Visigoths. With the British Empire, it took Mahatma Gandhi. With IBM, it took Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. With FDR, it took the grim reaper. With the camel’s back, it took a last straw.
Paradigm Shift
Tha USA has been in a paradigm since the Civil War, that of the military industrial complex. I don’t see how we make a paradigm shift away from that. We are too fat and happy with our comic book heroes, drugs legal and illegal, video games, reality television, cable news, and professional sports spectacles. What could make us change?
A Better Catastrophe
Does your system of knowledge contain the concept of a “better catastrophe?” Well apparently POTUS’s does.
Pay It Forward
If everybody reading this just skipped one breakfast — or not — and paid the amount forward to EVC, we would be doing much more than buying a fat guy in a pickup truck a breakfast burrito.
Cognitive Bias #4 — Overconfidence
Self-appointed experts, aka politicians, seem to be the worst. Here’s an example: Everybody I talk to, and I talk to a lot of people, say that there is climate change. So, I have educated myself about it.
Houston, TX (Continuing)
This is a catastrophe. This is a disaster. This is the greatest amount of rain ever recorded in a locale in the history of meteorology. How can POTUS say, “We want to do it better than ever before”?