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Recognize Free Iran

 I don't want a peace agreement with the mullahs of Iran. I want them gone.

No agreements with a "mullah-lite" regime. It would be like negotiating with Vichy bureaucrats.

Today's diplomatic task should be to recognize the new Iranian government. 

Period.

Europe Fails the Test

 Batya Ungar-Sargon on Europe's dismal performance.

The European governments have one of the weakest batches of leaders in decades.

[I am old enough to remember when President Eisenhower met with Prime Minister Macmillan, President De Gaulle, and Chancellor Adenauer.]

First Paragraph

Boog warned me about Washington, but until I saw the rich lady set her pugs on the dinner table, I didn't take him seriously. A staple of my relationship with Boog is that he warns and I ignore.

- From Cadillac Jack by Larry McMurtry

Find Something Beautiful Today

 

[Photo by Stephanie Le Blanc at Unsplash]

"Why the Past 14 Years Have Felt So Insane"

Rogue Highway explains how society was affected by The Great Blurring.

Thought provoking. Most great changes don't arrive with trumpets.

[Photo by Luiz Gonzaga at Unsplash]

First Paragraph of a Major Book

For thousands of years, human civilizations did something unimaginable by modern standards: They set rules to limit the power of their technologies. In the Hebrew Bible, God commands the Israelites to build an altar for worship but forbids them from using stonecutting tools in its construction. Classical Greek philosophers warned that new inventions would bear costs equal to their power. Socrates tells the story of an ancient king who laments that the advent of writing will make men lose their faculty of memory and become ignorant. Plato looked down on the "base mechanic arts" of technology for weakening the body and enfeebling the soul.

Master List Follow-Up

In the wake of the usual income tax preparation madness, I sat down to update my Master List.

Prompted by Nicholas Bate's blog post, I quickly discovered that there had been some detours into separate lists.

I expected a one-page Master List but wound up with three-pages.

The largest portion, of course, is the Important but Not Urgent category from the Eisenhower Quadrants.

Self-Published and Then

Collin Hansen on "The Great American Novel That Almost Wasn't."

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