\u2022\u00a0 If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck but it isn’t a duck, then it is an impostor.\u00a0 That is, a quack.<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 People in deep thought scratch their heads or stroke their chins as if doing so will help something intelligent to emerge.\u00a0 How did such behavior evolve?\u00a0 I would encourage some aspiring psychology major to conduct a study that answers the question, “Do people who touch their faces make better or faster decisions than those who refrain from doing so?”<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 Online product reviews often reveal more about the reviewer than they do the product.\u00a0 For example, one reviewer rated a set of wood drill bits two stars (out of five) because they were “not good for drilling into cement.”\u00a0 Was he trying them out on his skull?<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Open letter to editorial columnist Maureen Dowd of The New York Times:<\/em> why not just retire and spare yourself (and the rest of us) your unending misery from having to live in the same universe as Bill and Hillary Clinton?<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 You are sitting in a church pew during a religious service, but you do not observe that faith, and then a tray is passed to you, and you just smile and hand it to the next person in the row.\u00a0 If only that tray had not been handed to you, everything would have been cool!\u00a0 But now you’re getting looks.\u00a0 That’s just one of the prices you pay for not believing.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Disillusionment wasn’t invented in 1964.\u00a0 I doubt there was ever a generation that did not experience disillusionment — how the establishment thwarted us, how powerless and ineffective we are, what little hope remains.\u00a0 Each generation (and person) defines itself by its response to disillusionment.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 If I’ve said it<\/em> once, I’ve said it<\/em> a thousand times.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 When Reince Priebus left, Donald Trump became the first president in over 100 years to not have a pet dog in the White House.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 There are three kinds of books: the ones you’re glad you read, those that were a waste of time, and those you need to read.\u00a0 Here is my three-column list of said books:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I invite you to share yours in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2022\u00a0 If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck but it isn’t a duck, then it is an impostor.\u00a0 That is, a quack. \u2022\u00a0 People in deep thought scratch their heads or stroke their chins as if … Continue reading
\nThe Mind’s I<\/em>
\nSlaughterhouse Five<\/em>
\nThe Last Temptation of Christ<\/em>
\nParis 1919<\/em>
\nA Map of the World<\/em>
\nOwl at Home<\/em><\/div>\n
\nConsciousness Explained<\/em>
\nGuns, Germs and Steel<\/em>
\nRoger’s Version<\/em>
\nIvanhoe<\/em>
\nThe Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922<\/em>
\nJourney to Ixtlan<\/em><\/div>\n
\nThe Brothers Karamazov<\/em>
\nWorks of Abraham Lincoln<\/em>
\nFountainhead<\/em>
\nOf Human Bondage<\/em>
\nThe Barbarians<\/em>
\nFreedom<\/em><\/div>\n