The Biggest What-If Hovering Over Obama
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.” (Whittier)
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The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers
For everyone heading into finals and the end of the semester! (via Instapaper)
Four Enduring Truths of American Elections
Good things to keep in mind between now and Election Day. (via Instapaper)
Denialism, the comforting belief that all one’s foes are easily dismissed by bluster, is the opiate of the intellectual classes.
a minor friar: Advice to Theology Students
Equally good for undergraduate majors, graduate students, and those simply interested in theology.
They say, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.’ That’s why I play every sport with a baseball bat — the other boxer never sees it coming.
Stephen Colbert
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The Milquetoast Radicals
David Brooks is so on-point about the fundamental frivolity and illusion of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Nothing is easier than to use the word, [God,] and mean nothing by it.
John Henry Newman in Idea of a University I.7
Reporters, Baptists, Romney & ‘cults’
Just can’t recommend GetReligion enough for anyone who wants to make sense of the ways that theological points appear in the news.
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It would be easily understandable if someone became so annoyed at all these false notions that for the rest of his life he despised and mocked all talk about being - but in this way he would be deprived of the truth of existence and would suffer a great loss.
Socrates in Phaedo 90cd
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan
He’s No Truman . . .
Analysis by the numbers from Jay Cost, 2012 strategy
La Commedia è finita!
The tragicomedic White House.
People should not think so much about what they ought to do, they should think about what they ought to be.
Meister Eckhart
