Ah, the fine art of reasoning..............

On the vision thing........................

Intellectuals are often shortsighted, failing to see what is before their very nose. Their object is to obscure the obvious and to make complex the simple, so that they are then needed to lead humanity away from its ignorance and stupidity. With the inexorable rise of tertiary education, we have more intellectuals than ever before, and yet final enlightenment seems as elusive as ever. Man remains a problem-creating animal.

-Theodore Dalrymple, as he begins this post

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Savoring............................

Can I get an Amen...............................?

.............................................................be like Bob and Sally.

It's my superpower too....................

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It is always a great day...................

.................when I feel like I understand the cartoon at xkcd:

Good questions, all.................................

daring greatly.................................

“The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”  


-Teddy Roosevelt

Really....................................?

The screen said:  "One thing is for certain"............then:

The short video (found here) proposes that it was more than just a giant asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs (after a very successful 165 million year run).  They just don't know what.  Such candor is refreshing, considering we don't know nearly as much about yesterday as we think we do.  Regardless, here are two popular potential causes for their demise: