`Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better. Bear that in mind, will you?’ repeated Mr Jaggers, shutting his eyes and nodding his head at Joe, as if he were forgiving him something. `Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make […]
As of this morning, The Secret is the #2 ranked book on Amazon.com, lagging behind only the new Harry Potter. As featured recently on Oprah and spoofed even more recently on SNL, The Secret purports to reveal the long-guarded principle that lies behind all human achievement. The publisher’s blurb puts it this way: Fragments of […]
UPDATE 01/18/07, 08:05 AM MST: Just added this little tidbit about the apparent discovery of a cure for cancer. But no need to get all excited or anything! What do you know, there’s been some activity recently over on our sister blog. Check these out: In the near future, will we all be traveling on […]
Some of these are better than others, but I really enjoyed this one: I am optimistic about the only thing—by definition—that we can be optimistic about: the future. When I tally up the plus and minuses at work in the world, I see progress. Tomorrow looks like it will be better than today. Not just […]
Candide, amazed, terrified, confounded, astonished, all bloody, and trembling from head to foot, said to himself, "If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?" Candide, Chapter 6 Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire Via El Jef, a quote from Lileks that sums it all up, really: We can argue about all manner of […]