Random Thoughts - Thomas Sowell, always on point...

Forgot how much I enjoy reading the common sense of  Thomas Sowell:

 "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination."

When. Will. It. End?

NOT what you want to see at your kid's school...

Should we all take notes of our lives?

"Regarding the note-taking, you might ask, "Isn't it enough just to live it? Why write it down?" The answers there are human:To keep it: to capture your time in history as it happened. To remind yourself it's real"

 Peggy Noonan

Further on, Noonan advances the idea that people leave their papers behind to remind future readers that 'they were here - and, I guess, successful enough that someone may care.

 "I was alive—this is proof," and, "I was successful—here is the evidence."

For those of us not so successful or famous, what do we leave behind? We've lived our own history. Most of us never took notes - let alone had someone else take them about our lives. We live with the memories of what we 'lived', what we witnessed, what we felt. How different is our memory of those events compared to the reality of it? Has time washed away some of the questionable aspects or embellished them beyond what the notes would have supported?

Many, many people keep journals. I envy them.  I haven't the discipline to keep one up-to-date.

But how many of us find our way into someone else's notes or journals - as the Clinton's did?Obviously our actions aren't as important as the leader of the free world, but it does give you pause. Maybe we should all live our lives as if someone IS taking notes. [enter religious thoughts here]

Max: June 17, 2008 - February 8, 2014

Too few years, my friend. Max, you deserved more time...

Now, go to your room...

This is not a game!
That'll show 'em!

Technology is great!

Sittin' on the patio while the ribs slo-cook on the BBQ. Able to post to blog on my iTouch through my WiFi.

Brent Favre - We Won't Forget You

"'I hope the people who booed at least watched the way I played today -- with passion, like I always do -- and say, 'That's why we loved him. He lays it out there on every play.'"
Brett Favre elated he came back and that Vikings are winning - Peter King - SI.com

Sorry "Brent" (pun used often during the week and at the game), we're Packer fans, not player fans. Most of us have sat through many, many, many, games with lots of players who played with passion. You definitely are a throwback and we appreciate that, but you're not above the game, the team or the memories of other passionate players and fans. What makes you great is that you play for the love of the GAME. We support and cheer for OUR TEAM because we love the GAME. Playing for the Vikings - you are dead to us.

Best sign of the day at the game - held by 12+ robed "apostles": JUDAS ONLY BETRAYED JESUS / YOU BETRAYED US ALL