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What are We Talking About?
“It’s an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don’t want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in… Read More ›
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What Happens When Nobody Answers the Call to Service?
“Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so.” ― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails This has been another one of those weeks where we grapple with humanity. The fallout from the tragic… Read More ›
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Wagging The Dog
“Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?” ― Max Porter, Lanny The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce released its 30th Annual Education Report on Tuesday. That’s thirty years, of the chamber releasing a report… Read More ›
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The Year is Off to a Banner Start, Tennessee Style
“The fool’s crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man’s crime is the crime that is not found out.” ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White The silly season is upon us. Coming out of… Read More ›
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A Man, and a Woman, Out Of Time
“Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.” —George Carlin I got a… Read More ›
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Here We Go Again
“She stared at the television. “Why is it that after all the bullets have bounced off Superman’s chest, he then ducks when the villain throws the empty gun at him?” ― Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier The… Read More ›
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A Christmas Visit From Slatski
“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just, and when they wish to be just they are often no longer strong,” ― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking… Read More ›
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In Case You Doubted, It Truly Takes a Village
“That’s all I’ve ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of the soul. You can do it with a toaster, you can do it with a… Read More ›
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Tis The Season…Fa La La La La
“A common view of knowledge, going back to Plato, is that knowledge is justified, true belief. To know something, you have to think it’s true (that’s belief), you have to be right about it (that’s truth), and you have to… Read More ›
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Are We Serious yet?
“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.” ― Henry Gee, In Search of Deep Time The other night I was driving home, it was fast… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 