Tuesday, March 24, 2020

A Socratic Mob

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Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. -- The Federalist No. 55 Another gener...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Toxic Leadership

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“You’re fired!” Pres. Donald Trump not only cannot get along with the people he hires, he denies them afterward. He called Gen. Jim Mattis ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Rescuing Aristotle and the Church

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Last night, we started watching  Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey  on DVD. Still waiting to finish Episode 1, the narrative has problems. The er...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

World War II Victory Dinner and Dance

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Once again, the Texas Military Forces Museum and the Texas Military Forces Historical Foundation hosted their annual Valentine's Day Swe...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

TECHNICAL WRITING: COMPLAINING AND EXPLAINING

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“Never complain. Never explain.” is the unofficial motto of the British royal family. It expresses the stiff upper lip attitude which is st...
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Thursday, February 13, 2020

New Plate and Stickers

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Having retired from the Texas State Guard, the time came to change the messages on my car. The State of Texas grants a long list of specia...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

A Good Place with Inadequate Philosophy

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We enjoyed  The Good Place . We watched it on disc and look forward to the release of Season 4. The show’s chatty dialogs on moral philosop...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

SCIENCE FAIR: A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FILM

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This will be my ninth year as a judge at the Austin Energy Regional Science Festival. I found this film shelved in the non-fiction videos a...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

The Madame Curie Complex

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I relied on this book for facts about the women computers at the Harvard Observatory in the late 19 th to mid-20 th  centuries. (That artic...