Embrace This
How do you persuade someone to wear a seat belt? Here’s an ad from England:
{ Monthly Archives }
July 2010
My Second Childhood
I think I’ve entered my second childhood, or maybe I just never got out of my first.
I’ve been thinking about things I’ve known about for a long time, and letting myself be astonished all over again. Things that would make a sophisticate roll his eyes and say, “Well, duh!”
Things like this:
Ludwig van Beethoven started losing his hearing early in his career as a composer. His deafness grew progressively worse over time. Yet Beethoven wrote some of his greatest works — some of the greatest music ever written by anyone — when he was already profoundly deaf.
Or this:
During the entire time he served as President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt was totally paralyzed from the waist down. From a wheelchair, he led the country out of the Great Depression and through World War II. He died less than a month before the surrender of Germany, and about four months before the surrender of Japan.
Human beings are pretty remarkable people. There’s always more to them than meets the eye. Sometimes, a lot more.
Recap
Stolen in its entirety from Daily Kos:
Let me see if I have this straight: in the last few days members of the GOP have savagely screwed the unemployed, protected the bankstas, trashed Thurgood Marshall, implied rape and incest is part of God’s plan, defended BP, threatened to either end social security or screw over 20 million plus people who have paid into the system for at least 20 years by making them wait until age 70 to see their benefits, and screwed homeless veterans with children. That about it, or is there more?
There’s always more.
And yet the cable TV talking heads think Democrats are going to have an uphill fight against the GOP in November.
The 24 Types of Libertarian
This is new (to me, anyway): Cartoonist Barry Deutsch shows us the 24 Types of Libertarian. Maybe you recognize some of them? (Click the image to see the full cartoon.)