Is this February? The weather has been gorgeous. Today's bike ride of 34.2 miles gives me 205.4 miles in nine days. The image in this post (click to enlarge) shows the damage done by the recent flooding. The tree across the river is about to be uprooted.
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[O]nly those actions are ethical which involve more than is strictly required. If we so behave that we do no more than is required of us, we merely live honestly, but we do not on that account deserve honour; but if we do more than is strictly demanded, our action is worthy of honour, and we are then truly honourable men.
(Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics, trans. Louis Infield, The Library of Religion and Culture, ed. Benjamin Nelson [New York: Harper & Row, 1963 (first published in 1930)], 50)
No Straight Lines (2015). I just bought this album. I also have Bill's 1989 album There Were Signs. Incredibly enough, Bill is an attorney as well as a musician, and, proving that all good things are ultimately connected, he studied philosophy as an undergraduate.
With friends like this, Hillary Clinton doesn't need enemies.
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Justice consists in getting what you deserve. If young people vote for socialists, then they will deserve the ensuing misery. Some things have to be learned the hard way.
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"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address.
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To the Editor:
Re “Draft Registration for Women Would Stir a Sleepy Government Agency” (news article, Feb. 8):
As a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War and more recently as the father of three children of draft age, I have long supported a military draft and a national service requirement that would (1) provide no college deferments and (2) apply equally to men and women.
As is, our volunteer Army overwhelmingly comprises young working-class people who, in the eyes of most unaffected Americans and despite all the patriotic pandering, have become mere collateral damage.
Until our policy makers, the privileged and powerful, have offspring who are subjected to a service requirement—until they have some “skin in the game”—we will continue to engage in nonstop military adventures throughout the world.
MICHAEL ROOKE-LEY
Eugene, Ore.
Note from KBJ: The letter writer, who refused to fight for his country, thereby making someone else do it, wants to use young people as a mere means to his end, which is the prevention of "military adventures." Where does the New York Times get these people?
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When all is said and done, Americans will have to decide whether they want to hear Hillary Clinton's shrill, hectoring voice for four years. She is a harridan.
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