Something To Think About Archive

It’s been noted that maybe the White House and HHS Secretary RFK, Jr should rename the MAHA movement “Make America High Again” given that the administration recently reclassified marijuana as a Schedule I drug changing its current status as a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act. The fact that the pot of today is 3–5 times stronger than it was 30 years ago is a real problem. A recent U.C. San Diego study found that users experienced impaired brain development, worse verbal recall, memory, inhibition control and spatial skills. Should you go to prison for possession or use? Absolutely not. But the reclassification signals a reduction in risk that is misleading.

With all the online polymarket betting on everything from the removal of South American dictators to arcane sports outcomes, we’d be wise to remember Warren Buffet’s caution that “If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the pasty.”

Author Pearl S. Buck felt that “When hope is taken away from the people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after.”

Singer Ray Charles once noted that “Dreams, if they’re any good, are always a little crazy.”

According to English biologist and anthropologist Thomas Henry Huxley, “There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.”

Author and sociologist Mary Parker Follet claimed that “Coercive power is the curse of the universe;” while “…coactive power is the “enrichment and advancement of every human soul.”

Elizabeth Warren is wrong to blame only the Iran War and high jet fuel prices for the demise of Spirit Airlines. It’s been in the making since the Biden Administration who, in their anti-trust zeal, nixed a merger between Jet Blue and Spirit airlines that could have saved the latter. But we’re glad that the Trump Administration’s $500 million dollar bailout fell through as it’s reminiscent of Obama’s own $500 million attempted rescue of solar energy company, Solyndra, that went bankrupt anyway. We still say that the government should not be picking winners and losers in American industry

Clergyman and reformer Henry Ward Beecher believed that “Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.”

Author Pearl S. Buck felt that “When hope is taken away from the people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after.”

Singer Ray Charles once noted that “Dreams, if they’re any good, are always a little crazy.”

According to English biologist and anthropologist Thomas Henry Huxley, “There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.”

Author and sociologist Mary Parker Follet claimed that “Coercive power is the curse of the universe;” while “…coactive power is the “enrichment and advancement of every human soul.”

Elizabeth Warren is wrong to blame the Iran War and high jet fuel prices for the demise of Spirit Airlines. It’s on the Biden Administration who, in their anti-trust zeal, nixed a merger between Jet Blue and Spirit airlines that could have saved the latter. But we’re glad that the Trump Administration’s $500 million dollar bailout fell through as it’s reminiscent of Obama’s $500 million rescue of solar energy company, Solyndra, that went bankrupt anyway. We still say that the government should not be picking winners and losers in American industry.

Clergyman and reformer Henry Ward Beecher believed that “Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.”

“Failure to hit the bullseye is never the fault of the target.”

It’s been said that “The world’s favorite season is Spring. All things seem possible in May.”

Regarding goal setting, the great artist Michelangelo believed that “The great danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

According to an African Proverb: Any where a man goes, his character goes with him.

We’re constantly amazed by and increasingly disenchanted by our elected official’s capacity to behave badly. And especially now with Eric Swalwell’s sexual misconduct, okay “alleged” misconduct, although the Governor’s race is better off with him not in it. And there’s Tony Gonzales, a well-respected Congressman from Texas, also failing the morals test and having to resign. Then we have the tasteless post on Truth Social by President Trump depicted as Jesus despite his lame claim that he “thought he looked like a doctor.” What were these people thinking?

Hotelier J.W. Marriott claimed that “It’s the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation fist class.”