tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post7540436612872732352..comments2023-11-03T09:36:22.100-04:00Comments on In From the Cold: Today's Reading AssignmentGeorge Smileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07049707648660651119noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-2031660413444327762010-06-06T13:01:42.156-04:002010-06-06T13:01:42.156-04:00Do not disagree with the post, but also agree with...Do not disagree with the post, but also agree with Dymphna.Ed Bonderenkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03724552853113809036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-21975636277412002872010-06-05T22:28:35.454-04:002010-06-05T22:28:35.454-04:00...Hmm..
How about pre-obits for folks we like so......Hmm..<br /><br />How about pre-obits for folks we like so they don't have to wait till they're dead to know how much we admired them?<br /><br />Bush, Sr. is one. Of course, he's easy to make fun of but I find him an admirable man. Which may be why he was only a so-so politician.<br /><br />And there's SecDef Gates. I have no idea whether or not he's doing a "good" job in the Building. Who on earth could tell? But he strikes me as a decent person. I listened to the commencement address he gave at my son's graduation and was struck by his humaneness, the shakiness of his voice as he described long walks at night as an undergraduate at that same school, wrestling with what it meant to "be of service".<br /><br />Walter Williams is very humane. Wit and wisdom and humility are his trademarks. His free on-line "classes" entitled something like "Economics for Citizens" are a boon to an economically illiterate society.<br /><br />Which is not to say that Mr. O'Rourke's round-up wasn't amusing. Trenchant, even. But it is a sign of our decline that we are more likely to single out those who have damaged the social fabric rather than those who've been trying to mend it.<br /><br />Thomas Sowell, anyone?Dymphnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06040064724546519425noreply@blogger.com