Time is the one thing that man has not mastered. For all of our ability to move around this little ball called Earth, we cannot change where we are in time. But can you imagine if we knew the future?
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All about the standing-upright chimps that really love to talk about themselves.
Distant Voices
Say for a moment that you have a manufacturing operation in Malaysia. Since we don’t make much stuff in the USofA these busy days of a sleepless planet, it’s not unreasonable. You call them up at some bleary-eyed time to find out how it’s going:
Voice
When I came to pick up my son from school, another young boy was having a bad day. He was inconsolable, sobbing loudly in the hall despite the best efforts of the teacher’s aide who took him out. She tried her best to calm him, offering to read or play with him in short, breathy sentences. It was hard to know what was wrong, since he could only respond with one word.
The Jebediah Effect
[ This first appeared in Columbus Day Riot, my blog-before-blogs, in 1999. It still works. ]
The Embiggening of Everything
“A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man” is the quote that stands under the statue of Jebediah Springfield in the center of Springfield Park on “The Simpsons”. Forgetting for a moment that this is just a cartoon TV show, this really is a quote for the ages. For one thing, it seems to make a lot of sense even though it is gibberish. For another, it’s cast in bronze and displayed prominently. Can’t beat that as a lesson for our kids.
Making Sense
It happens every once in a while in our nation. An event that can only be described as “senseless” by the media, by politicians, by everyone. The assumption is that such an event stands apart because the rest of the world somehow does make sense. That is the mistake at the heart of it all.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 