Quotes on Routine Revelations

Contrasting Between What Is And What Intended

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:47:59 -0400

Tomorrow is the start of the Christian Holy Week. For those wondering whether Christianity is relevant to our current time, the stories about this week ought to provide the answer, but one may only see that with the help of leaders who connect the dots.

For me one of the best descriptions that sets the scene was written by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan in their 2006 book The Last Week. It begins:

“Two processions entered Jerusalem on a spring day in the year 30. . . One a peasant procession, the other an imperial procession. From the east, Jesus rode a donkey down the Mount of Olives, cheered by his followers. On the opposite side of the city, from the west, Pontius Pilate, entered Jerusalem at the head of a column of imperial cavalry and soldiers. Jesus’ procession proclaimed the kingdom of God; Pilate’s proclaimed the power of empire.”

While this is not a report on what literally happened, it’s plausible contrasts the differences between what we all consider the norm of civilization, peace through violence, and the alternative rule of God of peace through love.

Palm Sunday is about hope, yes, but that is only appreciated in contrast to what is going all around us. If you get caught up in the hoopla then you are missing the point.

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:54:59 -0400

Read an interesting article regarding what one may consider a “common sense” reaction to screen time and an ability to focus and learn:

Consider a simple observation. The same person who cannot get through a novel can watch a three-hour video essay on the decline of the Ottoman Empire. The same teenager who supposedly lacks attention span can maintain game focus for hours while parsing a complex narrative across multiple storylines, coordinating with teammates, adapting strategy in real time. That’s not inferior cognition. It’s different cognition. And the difference isn’t the screen. It’s the environment.

The author later writes:

I used to believe, as I was taught, that literacy was primarily about decoding text. But watching how people actually learn and think has convinced me that literacy is about something deeper: the capacity to construct and navigate environments where understanding becomes possible.

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:08:27 -0400

The United States still matters to people in China as a point of reference. But these days, the reference is commonly negative, at least with regard to food prices, medical bills, guns, drugs, and urban safety. America’s cultural exports now compete with many others, including China’s. And U.S. industry no longer dominates many sectors—not technology, where China is a major contender, and certainly not green energy, where China is particularly strong. The “kill line” discourse captures the growing skepticism that America is inherently a better place to live.

What Trump’s America Looks Like From China, The Atlantic

Reading this article caused me to recall the “Can You Say Why America is the Greatest Country in the World?” from The Newsroom.

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:29:22 -0400

I think Om Malik correctly describes what passes for leadership in Corporate America. It’s seems the MBA playbook is nothing more than pander to the market that always emotionally reacts to job cuts in a positive manner, but that is nothing more than a temporary sugar high that makes the day traders rich and happy.

Corporate will use AI as an excuse well before AI is real as they use any excuse to make more money, just like the do with inflation. The extent of the AI disruption, which I do not doubt is real, is driven by the opportunitests who use it as an excuse.

Sadly, this is the new template. Cut half the company. Blame the machines. Watch the stock pop. Move on. And if you are one of the people who just lost their job, well, you are supposed to believe that the future does what the future wants. That is narrative substitution.

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:17:14 -0400

Jimmy Carter:

“We’re supposed to be a ‘Christian’ nation are we not? But we are known throughout the world as the most warlike country on Earth. And I would say almost all the wars in which we’ve been involved, have been unnecessary,” he said.

Christian nationalists cannot support the claim of the United States being a Christian nation without redefining christianity in to something Jesus does not recognize. But, alas, such is the norm of civilization and the history of christianity.

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:18:52 -0400

The Guardian, Forget Maga. Welcome to Mega: Make Empire Great Again

Fresh from toppling the president of Venezuela and taking control of the world’s largest oil reserves, the Trump administration’s top diplomat arrived at the Munich security conference on Saturday with a rather new and very disturbing message for European governments. Empire is great. Empire is back. Empire is American.

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:02:29 -0400

Throughout the extensive litigation over the AEA, in this case and others, the Trump Administration has claimed the president deserves absolute deference when he claims that an “invasion” exists. The absurd implications of this position were highlighted in yesterday’s argument, when Fifth Circuit Chief Judge Jennifer Elrod (appointed by George W. Bush) asked whether the president could invoke the AEA in response to the “British Invasion” of rock stars, like the Beatles. “What if,” she asked “the [President’s] proclamation said ‘we’re having a British invasion.’ They’re sending all these musicians over to corrupt young minds…. They’re coming over and they’re taking over all kinds of establishments.” Could courts then rule the president’s invocation of the AEA was illegal? In response, Justice Department lawyer Drew Ensign admitted the government’s position would require courts to still defer to the president, and allow him to wield the extraordinary emergency powers that can only be triggered by an actual “invasion.”

Could the President Invoke the Alien Enemies Act in Response to the “British Invasion” of Rock Stars Like the Beatles? reason.com

In my opinion the above ought to be evidence of the problems caused by dualistic politics. When one is obliged to support a person or cause completely then there is no room for common sense, and making stuff up becomes a norm. If the President can never be wrong and if the courts cannot that the President is wrong and Congress never opposes the President then you have a Dictator.

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:17:05 -0400

Richard Rohr, The Naked Now

The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection — and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:25:25 -0400

James Madison, Federalist 51:

In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself. . . . It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Different interests necessarily exist in different classes of citizens. If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure.

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:45:15 -0400

Ted Gioia, 25 Propositions About The New Romanticism:

The dominant system today is built on analysis. And it’s worth remembering that the root meaning of analysis is the reduction of things into parts. Holistic thinking, in contrast, is always inherently Romantic. You can also call this visionary thinking.

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:29:37 -0400

In a recent article for the New York Times, David Brooks writes that MAGA has taken ownership of what was once “radical left” ideas to challenge the cultural elite. Brooks writes:

If you want a one-sentence description of where politics is right now here’s my nominee: We now have a group of revolutionary rightists who have no constructive ideology confronting a group of progressives who let their movement be captured by a revolutionary left-wing ideology that failed.

You Become The God You Love

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:44:41 -0400

Do We Get Him?

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 13:09:05 -0400

Most American White Christians do not have an appreciation for the society, rules, and cultural norms during Jesus' life. Consequently, I don’t think we really understand most of what he teaches. Jesus lived under imperial occupation. The religious leaders of Israel collaborated with the Romans to rule society mostly for their own safety, and that collaboration lead to the crucifixion of Jesus.

I believe many, if not most, American White Christians don’t really read or understand scripture because they are not the heroes of that story. Most of us align to the ruling classes at the time of Jesus, which has been our privilege within American society, but this appears to be coming to an end.

In today’s daily meditation from the Center for Action and Contemplation, there is this:

Over two millennia ago, these biblical prophets envisioned a different world, a world pressing to be born. In place of imperial culture, the prophets articulated another way of living in God’s Creation. Countering extraction, force, and separation, the prophets lifted up trust, right relationship, and becoming. In prophetic understanding, these three qualities embodied the way of faithfulness to Living Presence, the way of aliveness.

Trust in life itself is essential to aliveness. The prophets repeatedly admonished the people for trusting in wealth and influence, for seeking security in power and possessions—trusting in extraction. Instead, they called people to trust Living Presence by trusting the gift of life, the God-given gift of unfolding, unexpected, ever-creating life. Rather than seeking more things, the prophets called for seeking the more in life. Rather than seeking to be in maximal control of life, the prophets called people to participate in the fullness of life. This is the response to the desire to extract: receive and appreciate the more within life itself.

May American Christians now know what it means to say and have the courage to say, Jesus Is Lord!

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:18:02 -0400

“Political parties are to democracy what monopolies are to capitalism, both corrupt the founding principles of their institutions, and those who enjoy the privileges of the power these oligarchies provide do everything they can to preserve those privileges.” 1984 Is In The Past

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 09:52:22 -0400

Ann Wilison Schaef, When Society Becomes An Addict:

The context of our elephant—our society—is the fact that the system in which we live is an addictive system. It has all the characteristics and exhibits all the processes of the individual alcoholic or addict. It functions in precisely the same ways. To say the society is an addictive system is not to condemn the society, just as an intervention with an alcoholic does not condemn the alcoholic.

You might hear those who identify as Christian say that in Christ we are free, but they often leave the “free from what” unsaid. These Christians will say sin, but I don’t think they really know. I would like to suggest that in this book Ann Willson Schaef describes exactly that from which the Way of Christ sets us free.

Addicts and their families live from crisis to crisis. Every event or issue is perceived as a major turning point, and one barely ends when the next one begins.

The God of the Addictive System, who is the God that religion teaches and who in truth has little in common with the God of the Old and New Testaments, is God the Controller. It follows, then, that if it is possible to be God as defined by that system, one must try to control everything, and we do!

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:01:28 -0400

I really like this post by John Philipin, and this quote about education and colleges that I wish was my own:

A university is to educate .. not train. If you are wondering about the difference, ask yourself if you prefer your children to attend sex education classes or sex training classes.

My additional two cents is that this is the consequence of a society that defines success as wealth, and wealth as a dollar value. Already back when I was in college in the mid 80s, the majority of my colleagues were there to get the degree to get the “good paying” job. Honestly, that is why I went to college, because the society I lived in, which included my family and peers and nearly all adults defined success as wealth and wealth dependent on a college degree. The point of view may have been framed as enabling the middle class to move up, but in reality it was the destruction of the middle class.

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:05:33 -0400

Nadia Bolz-Weber:

That’s what’s hard about reading Jonah - I have to look at how maybe I too need my enemies to stay my enemies, since it’s hard to know who I am if I don’t know who I’m against. And maybe I need for the apologies of those who have done wrong to never ever be “good enough” for me, because being the one who is right is a comfy place to be. Not to mention that showing up with a bullhorn to cry out against someone else is a pretty effective way for me to avoid being the one being cried out against.

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:00:22 -0400

I agree with everything that Om Malik wrote in this post about how AI IS Changing Writing, in particular the following:

My approach to AI has been to embrace and extend my capabilities. I use quite a few tools with AI inside. Many of them have boosted my productivity. I am on the lookout for more to add to my arsenal, so I can become more effective when it comes to my creative output. I don’t need it to write for me. I need AI to make sure I don’t make spelling mistakes, point out some overused phrases, repetitive usage of phrases, and what my editors used to call “Om” things.

I don’t understand why an individual will want AI to write for them because I own (and want to own) my words because they reflect me. My writing is never about producing content and I don’t make a dime from any of my web sites. I may be biased, but I think what makes it blogging is whether or not one is making money.

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:43:11 -0400

“Global village is not created by the motor car or even by the airplane. It’s created by instant electronic information movement. The global village is at once as wide as the planet and as small as a little town where everybody is maliciously engaged and poking his nose into everybody else’s business. The global village is a world in which you don��t necessarily have harmony. You have extreme concern with everybody else’s business. And much involvement in everybody else’s life.” – Marshall McLuhan

Mon, 25 Dec 2023 11:37:15 -0400

“When we say “Come, Lord Jesus” on this Christmas Day, we are preferring his Lordship to any other loyalty system or any other final frame of reference. If Jesus is Lord, than Caesar is not! If Jesus is Lord, then the economy and stock market are not! If Jesus is Lord, then my house and possessions, family and job are not! If Jesus is Lord, than I am not! That multileveled implication was obvious to first-century members of the Roman Empire because the phrase “Caesar is Lord” was the empire’s loyalty test and political bumper sticker.”

— Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent by Richard Rohr a.co/6HYJqgR

Mon, 25 Dec 2023 11:26:27 -0400

“We do not think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”

— Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent by Richard Rohr a.co/czanKJf

Sun, 24 Dec 2023 13:04:49 -0400

“A life that is holy is a life that allows for all of your uncertainties, your curiosities and unbelief. That doesn’t just allow for them but holds them as sacred. Spirituality that is not permitted these liberties is merely subjugation. It is not in protection of the divine; it is in protection of fragile people who are unable to allow spiritual freedoms without their own spirituality feeling threatened. It’s a spirituality that is terrified of meditation for fear of resembling another faith tradition. It’s a spirituality that spends more time on apologetics than conversation and telling stories.”

— This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley a.co/7ANtBzb

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 10:59:55 -0400

“We all tend to aim for the goal instead of the journey itself, but spiritually speaking, how we get there is where we arrive. The journey determines the final destination. If we manipulate our way, we end up with a manipulated, self-made god. If we allow ourselves to be drawn and chosen by love, we might just end up with the real God.”

— Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent by Richard Rohr a.co/7fQnnXk

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 13:04:50 -0400

It is said that what Jesus most often spoke was, do not be afraid, and some claim the United States is a Christian nation, yet those people are driven by fear. Christian nationalism is not about following Christ, it is much the opposite.

“Tyrants thrive in communities of fear. They deceive the fearful into believing they will resolve their agony. They’ll promise safety, power, belonging to those who require their hope be attached to a person, usually a person of status. But as tyrants gain confidence, they have less need to obscure their evil. They learn they can threaten, insult, and abuse their followers directly and openly, past the point of rebuke. They have become salvation to some sect of the community. And in their terror, who would dare rebuke the rescuer?”

— This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley a.co/11dBkOx

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 12:45:59 -0400

“In each case Jesus describes his work as moving outside of polite and proper limits and boundaries to reunite things that have been marginalized or excluded by society: the poor, the imprisoned, the blind, the downtrodden.”

— Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent by Richard Rohr a.co/aZiW5Tg

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 12:09:31 -0400

“Whatever you trust to validate you and secure you is your real god, and the Gospel is saying, “Will the real God please stand up?””

— Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent by Richard Rohr a.co/cTaY4f0

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:13:53 -0400

“When people say piously, “Thy kingdom come” out of one side of their mouth, they need also to say, “My kingdom go!” out of the other side. The kingdom of God supersedes and far surpasses all kingdoms of self and society or personal reward.”

— Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent by Richard Rohr a.co/3baQRCo

Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:58:19 -0400

Zack Beauchamp

To figure out how to get the country past its current impasse, we need to look at reality as it is, not as we imagine it might be. And the reality is that our deep political divide is rooted, first and foremost, in profound and largely irreconcilable views of who America is for and what its social hierarchy should look like. That may be unpleasant for Brooks — and all of us — to contemplate, but reality’s ugliness doesn’t provide an excuse for ignoring it.

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 12:08:18 -0400

“If capital wishes to call labor entitled, capital must acknowledge that it is the most entitled creature in society, craving eternal growth at the cost of the true value of any given service or entity.” – Ed Zitron, The Rot Economy

Sat, 13 May 2023 10:57:47 -0400

In the category of just because we can do something doesn’t mean we have to.

The reality is that Fortune 100 companies will hire McKinsey instead of your pro-social firm, because McKinsey’s solutions will increase shareholder value more than your firm’s solutions will. It will always be possible to build A.I. that pursues shareholder value above all else, and most companies will prefer to use that A.I. instead of one constrained by your principles

Source: Ted Chiang, “Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?” Via Schneier On Security

Sun, 07 May 2023 11:36:47 -0400

“We have millions and millions of Christians who have had no experience of God, and the Church, for the most part, prefers it that way. We can then supply beliefs and dogmas as a replacement for encountering a living God. This is part of the reason so many people cling to the Bible or their theological beliefs so firmly. Because, to them, it is the closest thing to God they have ever encountered.”–MARK VAN STEENWYCK, emphasis added

— Jesus Unbound: Liberating the Word of God from the Bible by Giles, Keith,

Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:58:29 -0400

“During times of war hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. To even the casual observer during the last war it was obvious that the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese gave many persons in our country an apparent justification for indulging all of their anticolored feelings.”

The United States has been in a state of perpetual war, really ever since World War II. The war is not on on foreign shores about also on our own shores, such as the “War on Drugs.”

— Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman

Sun, 26 Feb 2023 12:31:39 -0400

About the church in Laodicea described in Revelation 3:14-22, author Ted Grimsud writes (emphasis added):

“The danger for all the congregations is that they would become indistinguishable from their surrounding culture. In the US, the danger has been that Christianity becomes inextricably identified with the American empire. Then, it seems that the only way to oppose the empire is to reject Christian faith. What a terrible tragedy.”

— To Follow the Lamb: A Peaceable Reading of the Book of Revelation by Ted Grimsrud

Sun, 29 Jan 2023 13:56:37 -0400

“It is all good news . . . but you have to go! Israel has always been departing empire. That is how it began back in Egypt and that is how Nebuchadnezzar became the dominant metaphor for imperial power vis-à-vis the peculiar destiny of Israel. That has been the summons of Jesus to his people since his first “follow me.” He summoned away from all old regimes into the new regime that he inaugurated. To make a large, imaginative move, I suggest that it is the task of followers of this gospel in our society—who live in the totalitarian regime of military consumerism with all of its hopes and violences and anxieties—to depart.”

— Journey to the Common Good: Updated Edition by Walter Brueggemann

Sun, 22 Jan 2023 14:23:35 -0400

“It is our propensity, in society and in church, to trust the narrative of scarcity. That is what makes us greedy, and exclusive, and selfish, and coercive. Even the Eucharist can be made into an occasion of scarcity, as though there were not enough for all. Such scarcity leads to exclusion at the table, even as scarcity leads to exclusion from economic life.”

— Journey to the Common Good: Updated Edition by Walter Brueggemann

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 13:07:58 -0400

Below refers to the writing of Lincoln Steffens in 1904, and very apt questions at the end of 2022. Emphasis added

“After Steffens laid out the corruption of seven cities, his conclusion pointed straight at readers in their easy chairs. The simple truth, Steffens wrote, was that politicians were expert readers of public demands, and the public had not demanded good government. Instead, for decades they had been driven by outrage, alternately between political parties, throwing out one set of bums, then the other. Steffens asked: “Do we Americans really want good government? Do we know it when we see it? Are we capable of that sustained good citizenship which alone can make democracy a success?””

— The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 by Jon Grinspan

Sun, 11 Sep 2022 11:53:28 -0400

“A community so addicted to consumption that it foregoes virtually every other pleasure and responsibility needs the intercession of a power great enough to reveal and tame the addiction. “God” is the place-holding holding word for the power that interrupts the tyranny of evil in all of its forms.”

— The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth by Wendy Farley

Sat, 03 Sep 2022 11:23:57 -0400

“Remember, Madison and the other authors of The Federalist Papers didn’t think amendments to their new Constitution were necessary. More than that, they thought a bill of enumerated rights could be dangerous. They worried that if they specified a few rights, some fools in the future would conclude that their list of rights were the only rights people had or should have. They worried that the federal government would grow to take power over everything but the few special carve-outs they bothered to enumerate.”

Like privacy and personal autonomy.

— Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal

Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:10:32 -0400

“If we take the future as our starting point for thinking about God, creation, and humanity—then everything we know must … be realigned to an evolving universe, including our theologies, philosophies, economic and political systems, cultural matrices—in short, our planetary life.”

— Sr. Ilia Delio, as quoted in Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned by Brian D. McLaren

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 12:17:52 -0400

“Two thousand years after Jesus launched a subversive spiritual movement of equality, emancipation, and peace, two thousand years after women were among his inner circle and the first messengers of resurrection, two thousand years after Jesus defended Mary of Bethany’s place in the all-male circle of disciples, the Christian religion still remains subservient to patriarchy and the authoritarian control it engenders.”

— Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned by Brian D. McLaren

Sun, 07 Aug 2022 12:16:06 -0400

“One of the paradoxes of empire in our own time is that people often assume that we are now closer to freedom than ever before.”

— Christ & Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times by Joerg Rieger

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 11:39:17 -0400

“The Christian faith is different from what the world teaches. The Christian faith is not “seeing is believing,” but rather, “believing is seeing.” We must open our eyes and hearts and see Jesus’s presence in our lives. We need to see him in the places that we dare not to look and dare not to think about.”

— Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence by Diana Butler Bass

Sun, 25 Jul 2021 11:37:28 -0400

“Hope means that things are neither steered mightily unto good by an invisible wisdom nor hollowed out at their center by some primordial catastrophe and doomed to fail. Hope means that things are just unstable, risky, nascent, natal, betokening neither an absolute plenum nor an absolute void.”

— Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim by John D. Caputo a.co/dVzzJ1W

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:38:00 -0400

Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb

Vogue has a great interview of Amanda from before the inaugaration.

Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:25:05 -0400

“The only way to stave off another Trump is to recognize that it always happens. The temptation of anti-democratic cult politics is forever with us, and so is the work of fending it off.”

What We Get Wrong About America’s Crisis of Democracy | The New Yorker

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:56:39 -0400

“The symbol of Christmas—what is it? It is the rainbow arched over the roof of the sky when the clouds are heavy with foreboding. It is the cry of life in the newborn babe when, forced from its mother’s nest, it claims its right to live. It is the brooding Presence of the Eternal Spirit making crooked paths straight, rough places smooth, tired hearts refreshed, dead hopes stir with newness of life. It is the promise of tomorrow at the close of every day, the movement of life in defiance of death, and the assurance that love is sturdier than hate, that right is more confident than wrong, that good is more permanent than evil.” — Howard Thurman source

Sun, 13 Dec 2020 11:48:54 -0400

“Several years ago when I was in Nicaragua, I asked a man if he had time, and he said, “I have the rest of my life,” and smiled. Who of us would possibly say that? That is what we don’t have. What we don’t have is the rest of our lives because we do not even have the now of our lives.”

“Time is exactly what we do not have. What decreases in a culture of affluence is precisely and strangely time—along with wisdom and friendship. These are the very things that the human heart was created for, that the human heart feeds on and lives for. No wonder we are producing so many depressed, unhealthy and even violent people, while also leaving a huge carbon footprint on this poor planet.”

— Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent by Richard Rohr a.co/43XJm0A

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:07:23 -0400

The U.S. is “going in the wrong direction” with the coronavirus surging badly enough that Dr. Anthony Fauci told senators Tuesday some regions are putting the entire country at risk — just as schools and colleges are wrestling with how to safely reopen.

Associated Press

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 16:56:00 -0400

The tweeting is really something astounding. I cannot believe we make politics this way. Can we have a real conversation? Not your tweet versus this tweet. This is what I would say. The medium has its own dangers, but it’s also being used by powerful interests in deliberate ways to make our conversation stupid, to make us respond viscerally, rather than rationally and thoughtfully.

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs

Sun, 25 Aug 2019 11:50:00 -0400

“You don’t have to wait for something “meaningful” to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need.” from “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose” by Eckhart Tolle a.co/dzBIRzn

Sat, 16 Feb 2019 14:14:18 -0400

What is REST?

REST stands for Representational State Transfer. It is a set of design principles for making network communication more scalable and flexible.