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“He possesses a second rate intellect but a first rate temperament.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes This quote by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was in reference to Franklin Roosevelt, and summarizes precisely why President Roosevelt was the best hope America had to survive the trials facing the country in 1932. Holmes was a judicial legend who spent 30 years on the Supreme … Continue reading Temperament Counts For A Lot
“This is not a tough man’s world — it’s a thinking man’s world.“ ~ Mike Tyson As the war rages on in the Ukraine I’ve been asking myself, are we not testing once again what kind of world this is? The pictures are of a gruesome place where bullies rule. The war in Ukraine is only the most recent that was conjured in darkness, fabricated … Continue reading Lord of the Rings Revisited
“Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.” ~ Bertrand Russell I’m quite certain most of us, in this time of war and broken politics, have found ourselves asking: haven’t we’ve seen this picture before? Is history repeating itself? In Bertrand Russell’s 1950 Nobel acceptance speech he attempts to answer this question. His perspective is raw and unvarnished but in … Continue reading What Makes Us Tick?
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” ― George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron) At some point or another we’ve all been exposed to ideas that have divided us into opposing camps. Some ideas are more strident than others, some more malicious, but all are biases and all make up the habitat of sectarianism. … Continue reading How My Mind Was Opened
Friday evening was the beginning of Passover, when the “mighty hand of Adonai” freed the Israelites from Egypt and sent them to wandering — in the desert. It is a story well worth remembering. It begins when the Israelites were held in bondage in Egypt. The Hebrew word for Egypt is mitzrayim, which literally means a “narrow place.” The Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt, starts fretting … Continue reading Passover