Greatish Hits

BREAKING: Hobby Lobby won't pay for 2 other Women's Health necessities: food & water. Death looms for female workers at Companies Of Faith.

— Colin Foote Burch (@cfburch4) July 13, 2014

Any prescription is a governmental barrier between a woman and her health care. #anarchism #HobbyLobby

— Colin Foote Burch (@cfburch4) July 2, 2014

Drug cartels helped create our immigration crisis. What helps cartels? Our drug laws & underground market. I won't use but I would legalize.

— Colin Foote Burch (@cfburch4) July 7, 2014

I'd like to celebrate my Independence from warrantless eavesdropping. #July4th #USA

— Colin Foote Burch (@cfburch4) July 4, 2014

Once surveillance technology is in place, legal rulings are just public words against clandestine power. #NSA #surveillance

— Colin Foote Burch (@cfburch4) July 2, 2014

"Reactionary Freudianism" insists utterance A always indicates disposition B. But even Freud wasn't that Freudian. "Sometimes a cigar is..."

— Colin Foote Burch (@cfburch4) July 1, 2014

BTW, last night, @NBCNews suggested Amazon treats employees worse than Wal Mart. Now that scews up the suburban liberal narrative!

— Colin Foote Burch (@cfburch4) June 30, 2014

The #IRS people are incredibly arrogant at a time when they ought to be groveling & begging for their jobs. @Morning_Joe

— Colin Foote Burch (@cfburch4) June 23, 2014

Delete the word "potential" from all future episodes of #RisingStar. Thank you.

— Colin Foote Burch (@cfburch4) June 23, 2014

After the age of 25, we become slowly rotting fruit...

After the age of 25, we pretty much become slowly rotting fruit -- and this is a good thing. Consider it the miracle of fermentation.

What makes a friendship? How Shestov and Husserl became buds

Edmund Husserl once said of his fellow philosopher Lev Shestov, “No one has ever attacked me so sharply as he. That’s why we are such close friends.”

From this article in The Jewish Week.

Jotting down a few quotations

Last academic year's Student Handbook & Academic Planner included quotations in the top right-hand corner of each week. I've been skeptical of the value of these types of quotations, only because I relied too heavily on short, pithy, wise sayings for a long season of my life. Maybe the value resides in a both/and approach: short, pithy, wise sayings are both helpful and limited. So before I throw away the academic planner, I thought I would keep some of the quotations I found inside:

"It is our choices ... that show what we are, far more than our abilities." -- JK Rowling

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." -- Sun Tzu

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -- BF Skinner

"Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." -- Abe Lincoln

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity." -- Irving Kristol

"Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things." -- Noam Chomsky

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." -- Will Durant

"Soft words are hard arguments." -- Thomas Fuller

"It's plain hard work that does it." -- Thomas Edison

"Experience teaches only the teachable." -- Aldous Huxley

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." -- Jimi Hendrix

"The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching." -- Aristotle

"All men by nature desire knowledge." -- Aristotle

"Our greatest weariness comes from work not done." -- Eric Hoffer

"Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself." -- Chinese proverb

"That which is used develops. That which is not used wastes away." -- Hippocrates

"Life itself remains a very effective therapist." -- Dr. Karen Horney

OK, then, back to the hard work of life!

I coined a new put-down

I tried this out on my Facebook page, and two friend have liked it so far. Here goes:

"I ain't in your league 'cause I ain't playin' your games."

Slam! Yep, it's original. (c) Copyright 2008 Colin Burch

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