God comes to a Russian and tells him he will grant him one wish. “But whatever you choose,” God says, “I will give your neighbor twice as much.” So the man thought and thought and finally said: “Take out my eye.” — Russian joke Today’s post is inspired by the book Prisoners of Geography, the…
Those who command themselves, command others. — William Hazlitt It’s not easy having a brother in the Naval Academy. It’s even less easy when that brother is graduating this Saturday, your parents are falling all over him (even though you just got your master’s degree), and he’s twice the muscle size as you as your…
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. — H. Mumford Jones How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the ark? This question was posed at the social psychology conference I attended this past weekend on Catalina Island off the…
If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Cesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I dare say, envied Hercules, who never existed. – Bertrand Russell To the astute reader—or to the one familiar with calendars—today is my first ever, late blog entry. Gasp! “I don’t believe it!” “How could you?” Or as…