Casey at the Bat
By Ernest Lawrence Thayer
The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play,
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
A straggling few got up to go [...]
With regard to a particular unpopular ambassador, Heinrich Heine [1797-1856] once observed,
”Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.”
Someone once quite astutely observed that the worst thing about stupidity is its insistency. It never ceases to amaze me, especially in political matters, how otherwise seemingly intelligent individuals can so utterly [...]
For anyone who needs to communicate their thoughts to others, this book is a must read!
Brothers Chip Heath and Dan Heath are the co-authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die . The book has been featured in Time, U.S. News & World Report, People, Fast Company, Inc., on The [...]
What happens when Wal-Mart has completely destroyed Made In The U.S.A.?
My friend Harvey Schultz has written some comments about this fine poem at Something To Think About
IF
By Douglas Malloch
If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley - but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.
If [...]
Gary Weiss, Forbes
What troubles me about Wal-Mart’s India move concerns the potential for social disruption.
There are 12 million people working in retail in India, ranging from operators of boutiques to the fellows who sell “cold water” on the streets of Delhi. I think the water guy and the kid selling fresh coconut juice in [...]
“To continue growing, Wal-Mart, like any cyclopean, globe-straddling corporation, must ingratiate itself not only with the political elites who rule the local, state and federal regulatory bureaucracies, but with the cultural elites – in this case, the leftists using Wal-Mart’s ill-conceived largesse to peddle multiculturalist and open-borders ideology. These leftists and the illegal immigrants who [...]
One of my favorite topics is back on the public agenda, so get ready for another blistering mindless harangue. It has recently come to light that oil company trucks have been doing considerable damage to county roads getting in and out of land being drilled as part of the Fayetteville Shale play. The drillers have [...]
This is an edited repost of an October 2006 post. This week, my grandmother’s only two other grandchildren were in my home and sharing memories of our grandmother brought this post to mind. I dug around and found this faint photo of one of the most beautiful women God ever created. I have added the photo below.
Original Post With [...]
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