Protect Marriage, Protect Children

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One day, we will prohibit all that ills us. Only then will we be free.

What is wrong with the world, today? What is wrong with the world, today?

Issues from Flight of the Concords.

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Liberal conscience

George Will delivers where he is brilliant.

Welcome to Socialism

This is why intellectual integrity and liberal values matter.

So we can be honest with ourselves when we are acting inconsistent with them.

Conscience is borne of such integrity and values.

Power, in all its soft and hard forms, is checked and challenged by those values and that integrity.

And, over time, it is shaped by them.

And that, and not by legislative, executive, or judicial fiat, is how liberal democracy, and the liberal conscience that underpins it, operates.

Democrats' New Philosophy

Sally: No. I like it. No. That's a good philosophy. No. No. No.

Schroeder: That's your new philosophy, huh?

Sally: Yes. I mean no.



Schroeder: But, Sally, anything that takes only a minute can't be very lasting. For instance, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony took over...

Sally: No.

Schroeder: I can't stand it.

Sally. I can't stand it. I like it.

Que sera, sera

I've been thinking a lot, this weekend.

I've been really unhappy with both the teaching and political work, lately. I'm just worn down by endless and mindless arguments with people about why they are capable of more than they think they are capable of and why there is so much opportunity for them to take advantage of in the world, both of which beliefs underpin much of my teaching and thinking.



I guess I've gotten to a point, after 3 years of having those discussions around the lives of kids with both kids and adults that I'm just tired of trying to convince people, all the time, that they are capable of more and there is more opportunity available to them than their fears might otherwise lead them to believe.

Many people, I'm learning, would rather stubbornly hold onto their fears than more honestly face the risks involved with pursuing lives that really matter to them or that accomplish things that are important to them and to others.

And I guess I'm just at a point where I think que sera, sera. If people want less for themselves, so be it. And if they want more, there is a whole world available to them.



I'll write my book. I'll teach out my scholarship. I'll study investment more seriously. I'll probably write and perhaps teach, in one capacity or another, for the rest of my life.

But after my scholarship is up in a year and a half, I'm not sure that I will be teaching, anymore. And I'm not sure I want to teach in a university, necessarily. I might want to get a Ph.D., just for the study purposes. But I'm not sure, anymore, that this is necessarily a route I will take in my life. I may just invest and write for a living and see where that takes me.



Anyway. As I said to Brandi a million times - and which we argued about a million times; Brandi and I had this very silly running argument on the meaning of this phrase - que sera, sera. Whatever will be will be.