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it’s better to know nothing than to know what isn’t so

THE MAIN MAXIM that I try to follow in living the con­scious part of my life is a well-known quote by Mark Twain: “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble—it’s what you know that just ain’t so.” These are wise words and ones that, should you adopt them, keeps you on your toes. [Read more] “it’s better to know nothing than to know what isn’t so”

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among all the bones in your brain, is your ratiocinator going unused?

I ADDED A NEW CAT­E­GORY to this blog: “There May Not Be Any Room for Irony on Face­book but There’s Cer­tainly a Place for It on My Blogs.” But it didn’t last long, as there are just too many damn words for a cat­e­gory! So I short­ened it to “Irony on the In­ternet?” [Read more] “among all the bones in your brain, is your ratiocinator going unused?”

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what’s long and lean and can fly but wasn’t built by boeing?

THIS GALLERY OF PHOTOS of South­west Air­line stew­ardesses from the 1970s was in­spired by my search for an ap­pro­priate photo for my pre­vious post, “O My God­dess! Women Flying Without Men.” (Which ac­tu­ally turned up rather lean re­sults.) I de­cided on doing this gallery when I came across the Pin­terest page Flight At­ten­dant and couldn’t stop scrolling down, gawking at the photos. [Read more] “what’s long and lean and can fly but wasn’t built by boeing?”

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o my goddess! women flying without men

A DU­BIOUS ACHIEVE­MENT in­deed for the fairer sex is the cur­rent brouhaha over South­west Air­line’s first “un­manned” flight—that is, women flying a com­mer­cial air­liner without a man in the crew, in­cluding the cockpit. I use the word ‘du­bious’ in re­gards to this event only to bring at­ten­tion to the fact that it took this long for an Amer­ican air­line to as­semble an all-female crew on a com­mer­cial air­line flight. [Read more] “o my goddess! women flying without men”

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anonymity empowers cowards to become bullies

I HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT BUL­LIES sev­eral times on this site, both from per­sonal mem­o­ries and with the still es­ca­lating in­stances of In­ternet bul­lying often re­ferred to as “trolling.” We are watching the sev­enth season of the tele­vi­sion se­ries CASTLE, and one of the episodes deals with both the type of bul­lying that I ex­pe­ri­enced fifty years ago and the cyber-bullying of today. [Read more] “anonymity empowers cowards to become bullies”