'the international community'

a phrase beyond the oxymoronic.

less

less TV, more reading...less driving, more walking...less work, more sleep.

they're 'all natural'

The qualities that got humanity into its current mess: competition, obsession with one's species, reproductive pressure, intelligence...

values

I can't give you better schools, decent streets, or a job...but i can defend your values.

concordia

take an image of a mega-cruise ship, tilt 80 degrees, fill with blue up to the funnel...it looks like that.

the new YES?

'ABSOLUTELY'

whoda thought?

that the energy needed to move a few hundred people across the US could destroy a 100-storey skyscraper?

money & brains

The proliferation of endowed chairs gives testimony to wealth's need for intellect (as well as its vanity).

friends & foes

Nations want allies but need enemies.

lost battles

The obits usually say 'she lost her battle with cancer,' but not that she lost a battle with say pneumonia or an 18-wheeler or an ex-boyfriend.

we are the 1 %

I need to remember that my 'people' probably are richer than 99% of the rest of the planet.

nothing fails like success

think cars, mass education, TV, intelligence...

chauvinism

Say what you wish about your family, tribe, state, or nation - you have to agree Earth is the best damned planet in the solar system.

2016!

i'm beyond weary of 2012...but thinking about whether Clinton will get to run against President Gingrich.

east meets east

Did bin Ladin know that he would use America's paranoia against itself, like a judo black belt?

like an old dog

The US creates messes all over the globe: Cuba, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Iraq...and seems unable to clean them up.

how would Jesus drive?

In high school I was taught defensive driving, but now I think that empathic driving would make our lives more pleasant.

a serious question

Would the Republicans rather have as president a Democratic presiding over a recovery or a Republican presiding over a depression?

public speaking

There appear to be mainly 2 kinds of speakers: those who are too shy to say anything, and those who don't know when to shut up.

certainty in action

Goethe said 'Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action,' which seems true if by ignorance he meant intellectual delusion coupled with the feeling of certainty.