“In the end, obviously, laughter is serious business, and the inability to laugh, at the world and at ourselves, is often, I believe, a sign of mental illness.”
Richard Russo author of The Destiny Thief
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Scary Charts – 12.10.22
Millions of US Millennials Moved in With Their Parents This Year – https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/millions-of-us-millennials-moved-in-with-their-parents-this-year/ar-AA14Y5JT#comments
Most Expensive Zip Codes — https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/most-expensive-zip-codes
Quote for Today – 10.29.22
Yes, change is the basic law of nature. But the changes wrought by the passage of time affects individuals and institutions in different ways. According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. Applying this theoretical concept to us as individuals, we can state that the civilization that is able to survive is the one that is able to adapt to the changing physical, social, political, moral, and spiritual environment in which it finds itself.
From a speech delivered in 1963 by a Louisiana State University business professor Leon C. Megginson at the convention of the Southwestern Social Science Association. The text of his address was published in the quarterly journal of the association. — https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/04/adapt/
The quote above cites Darwin as the source of the phrase in bold.
Darwin never said it. https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/people/about-darwin/six-things-darwin-never-said
Quote for Today – 10.22.22
The once-sleepy little town has gone in the same direction. After the influx of peripheral hippies that I was part of came the yuppies, Gen Xers, millennials, and more recently hipsters with their big beards, flannel shirts, and skinny jeans; many of them are the kind that move to a town with dirt streets because they think it’s charming, and then complain about the dust.
John Gierach – Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers
Quote for Today – 09.22.22
Charlie Munger, the billionaire partner to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway, describes his friend’s day as 80 percent reading—often five hundred pages. Before he invests his client’s money in a company, Buffett puts the odds in his favor by reading everything he possibly can about the company itself and the broader industry. He is not always right, but he is always informed. We might imagine him flying around on private jets, wheeling and dealing, when in fact he is more likely sitting at his desk, reading everything from the great books to technical analysis.
Mr. Buffett’s reading habit provides a powerful lesson for all of us. But most Americans read almost nothing. A friend who teaches at a large public university thinks less than half of his incoming freshmen have ever read a single book in full.
Jeff Deist President of the Mises Institute. Five Keys to Professional and Personal Development accessed online 9/22/22 — https://mises.org/wire/five-keys-professional-and-personal-development
Some good advice, no matter what stage in life you find yourself. This talk was delivered on September 2, 2022, to a student workshop at the Ron Paul Institute conference in northern Virginia.
- Sift
- Read
- Learn Continuously
- Avoid Arguments
- Promote People, Not Just Ideas
Quote for Today – 06.12.22
“All journeys have secret destinations of which their travelers are unaware.”
Martin Buber
Quote for Today – 05.27.22
Quote for Today – 11.09.21
While researching home blood pressure monitors…
Doctor recommended purchasing a home BP monitor. The cuff gets entirely too tight. But more important, this monitor is grossly inaccurate. Never matches or even comes close to the readings I get in the doctor’s office. I had one reading of 297/182. I’d be dead if that was accurate. Don’t waste your money.
Online anonymous reviewer
Take a Break – 09.17.21
You make music because you need to make it, you play it because you need to play it. Then it’s by the grace of much higher powers that it ever sees the light of day.
Julian Lage
Quote for Today – 01.30.21
“In the event that you have the choice to get vaccinated, I’d encourage you to take the vaccine that you’re given,” John Brooks, the chief medical officer of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Covid-19 response, said at a briefing Friday.
Additional Covid-19 vaccines bring choices — and complications — to the rollout — https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/29/additional-covid19-vaccines-bring-choices-and-complications-to-rollout/
Let’s get one thing clear: I am not a medical doctor nor is anything you read on this blog to be considered medical advice. Now that we have mutual understanding…
This is NO time to be picky. You can be picky about the brand of coffee you drink (or how it should be brewed). Or you can be picky about which vegan eatery serves up the best tofu in your town. Go ahead. Be picky on pretty much anything in your life.
But when it comes down to a vaccine for a virus that to the best of our knowledge we have no known natural immunity I suggest you take whatever vaccine is available.
Leave the debates about efficacy to experts who know what they’re talking about.
Rant over.
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