Wow. I like Orson Scott Card, the author many great books, “Ender’s Game” being one of them. His article on education this month is awesome. His state of North Carolina is having major educational system issues and he spells it out in a VERY compelling rhetoric that we all should take the time to read. [...]
Imagine if our founding fathers relied on teleprompters to give their great speeches. I can’t imagine Lincoln using one during the Gettysburg Address…. “Fourscore and… uh… line please…”. These men were real, intelligent men that wanted real change and were able to speak from the heart. Sure they prepared their speeches, but they weren’t left [...]
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all [...]
This morning, Obama woke to the wonderful surprise of being awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Hmmm, I suppose I could end there, seeing how that last sentence has all the irony one could ask for in a blog topic and in the very reading of it, one can immediately see the problem with the [...]
“I do this real moron thing, it’s called thinking, and I’m not a very good Amercian because I like to form my own opinions.”
~George Carlin
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