Reading List 2009
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
2009:Audacity of Hope,Dreams from My Father,(Obama);Hot,Flat,Crowded(Friedman);The Greatest Generation(Brokaw);Age of American Unreason(Jacoby);Tyranny of Dead Ideas:Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking(Miller);The Inheritance: World Obama Confr...
THE DUMB TEST
posted over 2 years ago, updated 21 days later | 0 comments
You must answer all question within THREE MINUTES, that's 3 minutes. If you take longer than 3 minutes, you failed the test. If get any answer wrong, you fail the test. If you fail the test, congrats, you're dumb. Proceed only if you want to doubt...
Folk Music Care
posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, And Mary fame.
The music of an era. I don't believe the music identified a generation as much as a generation of people identified with the music and in some way inspired by the lyrics.
To that end I offer an old son...
The music of an era. I don't believe the music identified a generation as much as a generation of people identified with the music and in some way inspired by the lyrics.
To that end I offer an old son...
Still thinking on Kennedy
posted over 2 years ago | 2 comments
Ted Kennedy old speech
If any man ever doubted the good intentions of his fellow man; if any man ever wondered if institutions of governments could be responsive and responsible to human needs; if any man ever yearned for a way of life that satis...
If any man ever doubted the good intentions of his fellow man; if any man ever wondered if institutions of governments could be responsive and responsible to human needs; if any man ever yearned for a way of life that satis...
Strange
posted over 2 years ago, updated 2 days later | 1 comment
Strange, on a morning run watching the sun rise, a tear in my eye. For me the last Kennedy of my personal remembrances is dead. I know of all the accomplishments of this man, but at the forethoughts of my mind; I shook his hand.
IF
posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
(Have read this many times in youth. Have done most or met these in truth. Have forgotten when things were dire. Even aged somethings inspire.)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trus...
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trus...
Woodstock
posted over 2 years ago, updated 13 minutes later | 0 comments
Now 40 years later ......
I never attended. I hesitate to say I am part of the Woodstock generation. I'm in the correct age bracket, but labeling myself as part of the Woodstock generation creates a chance for misinformation.
I believe the social...
I never attended. I hesitate to say I am part of the Woodstock generation. I'm in the correct age bracket, but labeling myself as part of the Woodstock generation creates a chance for misinformation.
I believe the social...
WARS
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 23 hours later | 0 comments
On the passing of Bob McNamara,
I think of what he inspired late in his life.
He was a smart guy that made many mistakes.
He understood what he did wrong after the fact and made public corrections.
Here, in outline, are but a few:
1.Empathize w...
I think of what he inspired late in his life.
He was a smart guy that made many mistakes.
He understood what he did wrong after the fact and made public corrections.
Here, in outline, are but a few:
1.Empathize w...
My EONS (edited by request yet again)
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 1 month later | 2 comments
Some have asked that I edit to soften, but no one has asked me to remove.
I had originally registered for EONS in 2006.
There was nothing interesting for me on EONS in 2006.
I watched a Sunday morning news program on April 5, 2009.
One segment of...
I had originally registered for EONS in 2006.
There was nothing interesting for me on EONS in 2006.
I watched a Sunday morning news program on April 5, 2009.
One segment of...
Updated World (Feb'09)
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 1 month later | 1 comment
If we could reduce the world’s population of 7 billion to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look like this:
65 Asians and Easterns
3 Europeans
4 from the Mid-East
4 US A...
65 Asians and Easterns
3 Europeans
4 from the Mid-East
4 US A...
