In a dream from which I awakened as my alarm went off at 5 this morning, I was on a comfortable tour bus with friends. The bus stopped and I saw that there was a large crowd of people gathered around, like a state fair or something. I was contemplating whether to stay on the bus or get out for […]
Ordinary and Personal Whatevers
This "Ordinary and Personal Whatevers" category is for ordinary and personal whatevers that don't fit into the other more amazing and impersonal categories.
What Kind of Group Work Encourages the Most Original Thinking?
what we discovered was great originality comes from being quick to start but slow to finish. That when you dive right into a task, you close yourself off to incubation. If you finish early, you're stuck only with your most conventional ideas, your first ones. You never have time to think outside […]
Articles: The Quiet Revolution: How the New Left Took Over the Democratic Party
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/the_quiet_revolution_how_the_new_left_took_over_the_democratic_party_.html Gramsci argued that communists’ route to taking power in developed, industrialized societies such as Europe and the United States would be best achieved through a “long march […]
It's simple. If we can't change our economic system, our number's up
Monbiot "buries the lede" in this story, but it's a good one from this point forward: The Ecuadorean government decided to allow oil drilling in the heart of the Yasuni national park. It had made an offer to other governments: if they gave it half the value of the oil in that part of the […]
Walking away
My father taught me well how to walk away from what I love. I have since learned that this is not the best use of the skill of walking away. I am now learning how to walk away from what I hate. I believe it is a much more sustainable use of this difficult skill.