“Advice from the Mediator’s Fellowship”
Don’t ask the mountain
To move, just take a pebble
Each time you visit.
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| — | John Paul Lederach |
Mr. Majetic said only a few words at Dok-Ing’s press conference here Thursday, but he made them count.
“If you have dreams, and you really want to achieve them, you can do what you wish,” he said.
“If you have money,” his son-in-law added.
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| — | NYT article |
“A joke I’ve heard in China is that Americans claim to “speak” Chinese no matter how few words they understand, while Chinese claim to be unable to speak English no matter how many words they understand.”
From this article.
Seemed to be true in Japan as well, and a fairly high percentage of other places I’ve traveled.
This is not so hard.
Helicopter money please.
Wired straight to households.
Helicopter money please.
Wired straight to households.
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| — | Steve Randy Waldman, Interfluidity |
I’m feeling curiously optimistic this morning which has me thinking it may be time for a CAT scan.
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| — | David Rothkopf |
sick chicken and contaminated egg
I don’t know where in the chain of causality these facts fall, but
a) we have a healthcare spending problem in this country
b) every other conversation I overhear in the Mud Box at American University is about the health conditions of the students.
Just today I’ve heard about someone who has ocular migraines, someone who is deathly allergic to nuts, someone who lives in a bubble, and someone who had leukemia as a child. And this is among a crowd of teenagers and young 20-somethings, who, as a general rule, one would expect to be healthier than average. So are they being overtreated, do we all have inherently unhealthy lifestyles these days, or is the obstruction of Darwinism coming back to bite us in the ass with a bunch of unsustainable healthcare costs for sickly kids who, this being AU, will work at government agencies which will happily pay to treat all their myriad ailments?
