> These days, many of us feel anxious, disoriented and uncertain about the ground we stand on. Carlos Alberto Sanchez @locoprof [https://twitter.com/locoprof?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw], professor of philosophy at San Jose State University, says Mexican philosophy has a concept to describe how we're all…
> “People will talk,” he said. “Even if a man has been acquitted by a jury, they’ll talk." — George Eliot (@GeorgeEliot_) February 13, 2021 [https://twitter.com/GeorgeEliot_/status/1360701048965521408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
> What would George Orwell say today? “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ~George Orwell, 1984 — @KHShan (@KHShan) February 10, 2021 [https://twitter.com/KHShan/status/1359638370947723265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > "Fellow-citizens, we cannot…
> Kellyanne Conway tells Bill Maher Americans 'better off' thanks to Trump https://t.co/Z2SLbX60Ob — Guardian US (@GuardianUS) January 16, 2021 [https://twitter.com/GuardianUS/status/1350439247078154243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > 4000 dying a day. Economy in tatters. International humiliation. A gutted government. A violent uprising.…
> "How sad it makes one feel to sit down quietly and think of the flight of the old year, and the unceremonious obtrusion of the new year upon our notice! How many things we have omitted to do which might have cheered a human heart, or whispered hope…
Since I've followed the story of the Utah monolith so carefully... > Ephemeral edible: gingerbread monolith appears on San Francisco hilltop, then collapses https://t.co/eIXLshQ4Fi — Guardian US (@GuardianUS) December 26, 2020 [https://twitter.com/GuardianUS/status/1342959198615851008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
> Of the many embarrassing things [https://apple.news/A1dx6Gte1T0Gk65cx9jsNTQ] Jared Kushner has said out loud in the presence of a reporter, the one that sticks out most as the country hurtles toward a possible 450,000 COVID-19 deaths [https://apple.news/AIg8GNzeQQeOCs0h6RdxvxA] by February is the comment [https://apple.…
> “One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.” George Eliot died 140 years ago today, leaving us some tremendous literature and her lived lesson in why we grow happier as we grow older: https://t.co/WfRKMgNwUs — Maria Popova (@brainpicker) December 22, 2020 [https:…