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Find Something Beautiful Today

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Did They Even Read the Novel?

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21 Books for the Beach

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Here's an eclectic list.

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Don't Hide in Port

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Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain

Greatness

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A Large Regular has a reminder of the record and service of Ted Williams.

And yes, Ted Williams also served as a combat pilot during the Korean War.

Will A.I. Resemble the Music Studios?

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At Which Point Will A.I. Reality Kick In?

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I recall developing a workshop on the Americans with Disabilities Act. It was packed with practical information and case examples and was designed to prepare employers for when the ADA went into effect.

The class was ready well before the law would kick in.

We sent out notices to a wide range of employers and heard nothing. Not one call. Not one scrap of business.

Once the law went into effective, of course, the phone began to ring. The requests were urgent, if not panicked.

No mention was made of the previous warnings.

People had procrastinated. No one had wanted to be an early adopter.

An example of the Pearl Harbor mentality: wait until you're dodging bombs and the crisis is undeniable.

Now consider Artificial Intelligence. It's sort of like an unscheduled Halloween. We can hear noises in the bushes and howls in the night, but we're not exactly sure when it will come a-knocking or what an AI-altered workplace will resemble.

As a result, although I'm researching what I need to tell clients, I recognize that most of them will dally until the wolf is through the window and jumping for their throat.

In the meantime, of course, I'm advising them to read these well-written and practical books by Nicholas Bate:

How to Beat ChatGPT: How to Not Say AI Killed My Job

Old School: Future-proof yourself. AI-proof your career

They may give them the self-confidence to face reality instead of hiding in the corner.

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Definitely On My List

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Indoctrination at Penn State Law School

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This is not traditional liberalism. It is hard-core leftism. And Penn State is a public, not a private, university.

Hmm

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A Recent and Eclectic Conversation with a CEO

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Among the subjects in our 40-minute meeting were Human Resources challenges; classical education versus that in the usual public schools; the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Elinor Wylie; Dave Shiflett's book on religion (Exodus); the importance of introspection; and the benefit of memorizing "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere."

The meeting ended with a plan of action.

The Felt Loss of Center

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Perhaps the most painful experience of modern consciousness is the felt loss of center; yet, this is the inevitable result of centuries of insistence that society yield its form. Anyone can observe that people today are eager to know who is really entitled to authority, that they are looking wistfully for the sources of genuine value. In sum, they wish to know the truth, but they have been taught a perversion which makes their chance of obtaining it less every day. This perversion is that in a just society there are no distinctions.

- From Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver

Music Break

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Sippican Cottage has the details behind Freddie Fender's big hit.

On My List

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First Paragraph

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In May 2023, Russian conscript Ruslan Anitin surrendered to an armed robot. Miles away, Ukraine's 92nd Mechanized Brigade controlled this cheap but effective grenade-equipped drone. It spent the previous hours hunting the man's comrades. The two Russian soldiers with Anitin were dead. After sustaining serious injuries, one detonated a grenade near his head; the other shot himself. Anitin chose differently, pleading with his unseen enemy for mercy. After some deliberation, the Ukrainians decided Anitin's intentions were genuine. They spared his life, directing him by drone across no man's land and into captivity as a prisoner of war.

- From Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III by Shyam Sankar and Madeline Hart

Not Just on Amazon

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Pilate's Magician is also available at ThriftBooks.

"Skillcations"

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The True Ranch Collection: A variety of ranches that teach a variety of skills.

A New Transparency

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Let's replace the American Cultural Revolution with A New Transparency.

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When the World Went Mad

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Consider this: The world was at peace on June 28, 1914, when Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated.

Thirty-seven days later, it was at war.

Amazing.

For a great book on the subject, see The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

Journalism's Decline

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Commentary magazine: Seth Mandel on journalism succumbs to its wounds.

Nicholas Spiderman

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"Dateline: Greeneland": The Politics of the Intelligence Thriller

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We feel we know this world because it has been described for us not only in histories of the period but also, more atmospherically, in the thrillers of Eric Ambler (A Coffin for Dimitrios, Journey Into Fear), the “entertainments” of Graham Greene (Orient Express, This Gun for Hire), and films like Casablanca and Arch of Triumph. It is a world of secret policemen and spies, frontier incidents and concentration camps, refugees and collaborators, honest journalists and corrupt newspapers. It is outwardly civilized—it boasts piped water, fast cars, and the radio—but there are Vandals and Visigoths under the smart suits and Balenciaga dresses.

Read the rest of John O'Sullivan, writing in the Winter 2006 issue of The New Criterion.

College Rankings

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Still another source: City Journal.

Happy Mother's Day!

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True

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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a brief.

- Anonymous