Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts: Just the Facts, Ma’am!
“There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information–gets very dangerous.”
–Edward de Bono, Maltese commentator
Just a guess, but you aren’t glued to the television or XM radio to follow Donald Trump’s trial. You might tune in briefly, just for an update. After all, this is the first time a former president has gone on […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Who’s Relevant Now?
“Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.”
–Susan Sontag, American writer
Even the casual follower of the NFL probably knows the name, “Brock Purdy.” Notwithstanding a stellar career at Iowa State, he was selected by the San Francisco 49ers with the last pick in the 2022 NFL draft, renowned for the dubious distinction of “Mr. Irrelevant.”
Apparently, this twenty-two-year-old didn’t get the memo. He began his career as the third-string […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Could There Be a Monster in Your House?
“Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time.”
–Condoleeza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State and current director of Stanford’s Hoover Institution
We’re living in a pandemic. No, not a viral pandemic. Actually, something more sinister–the pandemic of human trafficking. No less a person than Pope Francis has aptly referred to it as a “scourge.”
Human trafficking is defined as a crime in which victims are exploited and traffickers profit at the expense of adults or children by compelling them […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Would We Accept Responsibility?
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
–Robert Fulghum (author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.)
Ethan Crumbley. Remember the name? I’d wager most of us don’t. I didn’t, at least until I happened upon his parents’ sentencing last week as it was broadcast on the radio. In 2021, Ethan was fifteen-years-old when he shot and killed four classmates in his high school in Michigan. He’s serving a life […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Just the Facts, Ma’am!
“There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information–gets very dangerous.”
–Edward de Bono, Maltese commentator
Just a guess, but you aren’t glued to the television or XM radio to follow Donald Trump’s trial. You might tune in briefly, just for an update. After all, this is the first time a former president has gone on […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Who’s Relevant Now?
“Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.”
–Susan Sontag, American writer
Even the casual follower of the NFL probably knows the name, “Brock Purdy.” Notwithstanding a stellar career at Iowa State, he was selected by the San Francisco 49ers with the last pick in the 2022 NFL draft, renowned for the dubious distinction of “Mr. Irrelevant.”
Apparently, this twenty-two-year-old didn’t get the memo. He began his career as the third-string […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Could There Be a Monster in Your House?
“Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time.”
–Condoleeza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State and current director of Stanford’s Hoover Institution
We’re living in a pandemic. No, not a viral pandemic. Actually, something more sinister–the pandemic of human trafficking. No less a person than Pope Francis has aptly referred to it as a “scourge.”
Human trafficking is defined as a crime in which victims are exploited and traffickers profit at the expense of adults or children by compelling them […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Would We Accept Responsibility?
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
–Robert Fulghum (author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.)
Ethan Crumbley. Remember the name? I’d wager most of us don’t. I didn’t, at least until I happened upon his parents’ sentencing last week as it was broadcast on the radio. In 2021, Ethan was fifteen-years-old when he shot and killed four classmates in his high school in Michigan. He’s serving a life […]