Jimmy Carter 1924-2024
President Carter said, “When I was in the White House, I thought of human rights primarily in terms of political rights, such as rights to… Read More »Jimmy Carter 1924-2024
History
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
Kaizen
Kaizen (Japanese: 改善, “improvement”) is a concept referring to business activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the CEO to the… Read More »Kaizen
December 7, 1941
Mr. Vice President, and Mr. Speaker, and Members of the Senate and House of Representatives:YESTERDAY, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy… Read More »December 7, 1941
I Do Not Consent
to fascism, oligarchy, or dictatorship. We must all be equal under the law or it means Nothing. …”Liberal democracy was the product of a moment… Read More »I Do Not Consent
A Harvest Celebration at Plymouth in the Fall of 1621
The Pilgrims and the Wampanoags did indeed share a harvest celebration together at Plymouth in fall 1621, but that moment got forgotten almost immediately, overwritten… Read More »A Harvest Celebration at Plymouth in the Fall of 1621
November 22, 1963
‘I want them to see what they have done to Jack.’ https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-22-2024
Who saved over 60 million lives?
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/richard-cash-obituary?id=56613215 RICHARD ALLAN CASH A Kid from Milwaukee, Wisconsin Helped Save Millions of Lives Around the World – Richard Alan Cash passed away in his… Read More »Who saved over 60 million lives?
A Dose of Reason
Carl Sagan Wisdom
The Reality-Based Community
The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge… Read More »The Reality-Based Community
Who Becomes a Nazi?
Examining a number of types of Americans, she wrote that the line between democracy and fascism was not wealth, or education, or race, or age,… Read More »Who Becomes a Nazi?