One of life's paradoxes is that sometimes trying super hard can really mess things up, while trying a little less hard can create a space in which good things happen that we never saw coming or would have ever imagined on our own.
In a list of America’s top 50 cities compiled a year ago, our median household income was third-highest, $120,608, behind only San Francisco and San Jose. Including its suburbs, Seattle people have built world-competitive companies
Her genius would link the politics of the day with older thought, culminating in the 1951 publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism. Totalitarianism, said Arendt, was something new, something beyond old concepts of autocracy and dictatorship, because it was “total,” its reach extending to the all-encompassing remanufacture of truth.
Shutters, it seems, have important social functions in Italy. When our neighbors throw open theirs, and gaze out, it’s an invitation to a conversation.
“Muledays” was a sweet, if low key, affair at the County Fairgrounds. We all stood to say the Pledge of Allegiance together at the beginning, then watched kids do the “Boot Scramble” race.
For a Republican Congress member or Senator, the effect is paralyzing. It’s fear, fear that goes far beyond just worries about losing an election, fear of reputation destroyed, fear of lost – forever – allies and friends, fear of lies wrongly asserting criminal acts (mortgage fraud, anyone?).
