I’m writing this in defense of a friend. He has a business, and people like what he’s selling. Who wouldn’t, really? It’s ice cream! He was asked to be a vendor at a very popular street festival last year, and even though the weather was horrid (i.e. it rained almost every […]
In a recent set of 3 articles 1, 2 and 3, in the Wall Street Journal, Charles Murray makes a series of provocative assertions and proposals concerning education in the United States. In short order, he argues:
1. By definition, 50% of the human race has below average intelligence.
2. Even the highest quality education […]
I’m going to make some seemingly incongruous connections here, so stick with me…
Today my daughter was telling me about some photos she saw in her kindergarten class, and she described them as “breathtaking.” I was impressed at her word selection (far more expressive than “pretty” or “cool”).
Follow along…
Last night my husband and I watched an […]
Periodically, I get weird flashes in my head. Since they don’t incite me to perform anti-social behavior, I generally ignore them. This morning, though, a flash got me thinking…
Our local NPR station is having its fund drive, so this morning I was checking out different radio stations. I paused at an interview with Carl Levin […]
You have all likely heard variations of the comment “he’s not _____; he’s my brother.” The point of the comment is that you cannot give someone in my family grief. The converse is that I can.
I have a difficult time digesting most exclusively left-wing and right-wing blogs. Left-wing blogs give me problems because […]
Hello all,
Been off the site for a few weeks due to work issues, etc. I’m still a bit strapped, but I wanted to forward something written by someone else. The following is a post I read on the John Edwards for President site. The author goes by the name Happy Warrior. I’ll say up front […]
Hello everyone. My name is Rick, and I am a new contributor to Brave Humans. I have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, a PMI certification in project management, and just about two decades of systems design and development experience.
I play electric bass in a band, play piano at home and try to […]
To me, life is gray. It’s not just because it’s winter in the northeast, either. It’s getting harder to say, “this is right; that’s wrong.” I just don’t see things in black and white anymore…the older I get, the grayer everything seems. Yes, I do still hate broccoli, that’s an easy one. But abortion? Capital […]
Hi all. Nothing about politics or religion today. No, this time it’s the morality surrounding health advances.
Truth telling first: the idea for this topic was inspired by a book I’m reading: “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult. It’s about a girl whose parents conceived her in order to donate her cord blood to her leukemia-ravaged […]
The way I see it, people frame their political views based on the idea of “quality of life.” What you see as central to your quality of life frames your political views. Take any political issue, and I would bet your views on it can be traced back to your opinion on what […]
