The project is vaguely on your mind. You sip coffee and read a book. You scan the news but with faint attention because you are still sorting out the project. As much as you might like to do so, the process can't be rushed.
A vision begins to form and a conversation or two will be required before the picture becomes clear. When it does, you'll feel as if you knew the answer all along.
You did.
The most pressing human costs are in terms of physical deprivation and suffering. The most pressing moral imperative in policy making is a calculus of pain.
- Peter L. Berger
Want to increase public confidence in government?
Rehiring problem employees is probably not a good recipe.
And not commenting on news reports just ices the cake.
The study of politics is the study of influence and the influential. The science of politics states conditions; the philosophy of politics justifies preferences. This book, restricted to political analysis, declares no preferences. It states conditions.
- From Politics: Who Gets What, When, How by Harold Lasswell
Flashback time with Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin.
Love the smoking.
In the summer of 1919, just months after the end of World War I, an expedition of 81 Army vehicles—a truck convoy—set out from Washington, D.C., for a trip across the country to San Francisco.
The convoy's purpose was to road-test various Army vehicles and to see how easy or how difficult it would be to move an entire army across the North American continent. The convoy assumed wartime conditions—damage or destruction to railroad facilities, bridges, tunnels, and the like—and imposed self-sufficiency on itself.
Averaging about 6 miles an hour, or 58 miles a day, the trucks snaked their way from Washington, up to Pennsylvania and into Ohio, then due west across the agricultural Midwest, the Rockies, and into California. Generally, it followed the "Lincoln Highway," later known as U.S. 30, arriving in San Francisco 62 days and 3,251 miles later.
Read all of the Prologue magazine article here.
Art Contrarian looks at the later work of Grant Wood.
Some very, very, smart people were responsible for:
- The Maginot Line
- New Coke
- The Edsel
- The Bay of Pigs Fiasco
- Watergate
- Casting Glen Campbell in the original film version of "True Grit"
