Mark Twain wrote in “Innocents Abroad”, 1869, ch. 26: To give birth to an idea – to discover a great thought – an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain plow had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find the way to make the lightnings carry your messages. To be the first – that is the idea. To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else – these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which all other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
May 25, 2007
May 16, 2007
Religion and politics
Religion has always played a role in politics and always will. Rev. Jerry Falwell, who died recently, not only got involved but united many different Christian factions to create a huge majority of Republicans and Democrats to elect Ronald Reagan in 1980. It’s unlikely that we’ll see in our lifetime a successor to Falwell because he had one trait lacking in most all politicians: honesty.
May 5, 2007
Training for success
All children must attend school; therefore, it is there that youth are trained to succeed or fail in life.
