You may recognize the quote from Paul Valery, French poet from around WW1. All of the war-talk these days reminded me of this quote. I might have cited that quote before, but I can't find where I did. Why is there so much war mongering? Perhaps it's a lack of debate.

It's Sunday again, so, it's time for some Jesus Phreakishness. The weeks are flying by... but we should not forget to see Jesus every day of our lives. How DO we see Jesus? And when we do, what do we do?

Blessings and Peace.

End of the week, this video discusses that Jon Stewart video that is floating around the internet where he discusses the allocation of 42 Billion dollars for Broadband internet service for America and after four years, no homes have been connected to the internet. There is a theme, sort of, with recent events in Yemen and with war in general.

I saw a Selective Attention Test today at a conference. It made me think about life in the US. It is clear that there are distractions and distractions within distractions. But the question is, what are we distracted from? There are so many events in the news cycle, it's hard to figure out which is the most pressing. But one can guess.

I am gradually reverting back to my "gov't is awful" position. There's just so much bad in the news that I thought I would talk about the tension between authoritarianism and freedom and how it can be found in different cultures in different periods of time. In this case, China 2500 years ago.

The depression of 1920 is called the "forgotten" depression primarily because most history textbooks skip it which might lead people to assume that it was not such a bad depression. Textbooks rather focus on the Great Depression of 1929 and the "hero" FDR. What's an Austrian economics take on the 2 depressions?

A friend had posted an Anti-Trump meme which was ridiculously bad. Trump makes it easy sometimes for people to criticize legitimately, however, this one caught my eye. Plus, I got to work in a couple other events of the day and a favorite movie of mine, NO NOT the 2019 movie with Matthew McConaughey.

Sunday is Jesus day, once again. Just to head off any criticism, Yes, I know bushes and shrubs are not trees, hence the quotation marks. :) But sloppy biology makes for a better title. A tale of 2 trees from Jeremiah, a miserable one and a fruitful one.

Blessings.

People are burning Tesla cars... why? Do they even know? How might one communicate or dialogue with them to help them understand that they know very little about anything.... in other words, help them have a Euthyphro moment. I discuss the Socratic Method and how it is similar to Detective Colombo.

Hopefully ending the Department of Education will bring an end to the teaching of "Critical Theory." We take a look at critical theory what it is and why it is so toxic. May the DOE remain ended.