To Ponder

A friend on Facebook this morning wrote that she is “in the market for a new dishwasher,” that hers had been “out of order” for some time now.  The friend was soliciting recommendations on “why you love your dishwasher.” So people were responding to her in-need-of-dishwasher-recommendations request with the features of theirs that they liked: energy […]

‘When push comes to shove it’s no longer love,’ wrote one pundit about the importance of maintaining healthy relationships.  The author could just as well have been reflecting on the relationship between elected officials and the citizens to which they once-and-again promised to be true. How much the public viewpoint actually matters to politicians always comes […]

At 11:11 a.m. (EST) on 11/11/11, Las Vegas set a new Guinness World Record:  the largest pair of fuzzy dice ever built – the total dots on the face numbering a-you-guessed-it 11. Vegas is nothing if not a strip of indescribable scale, scope, stimulation and over-the-top, literally larger-than-life extravagance.  Perhaps for these reasons Nevada ranked first in America […]

Two men.  Two separate but recent incidents.  One of the men is dead, the other alive.  The dead one held a cap pistol.  The living held a knife.  Both were surrounded and outnumbered by far more heavily armed law enforcement.  One was outlined in chalk.  The other is still being sought. Their respective stories are linked above.

As important as are credentials character matters more. Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain wrote, “We know not the future, and cannot plan for it much.  But we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour strikes.”