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THE PLUS SIDES OF A WONKY EYE

THE PLUS SIDES OF A WONKY EYE

When Joni Mitchell sang “You don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone”, she was refer­ring to love and  the beau­ty of Nature. Hav­ing recent­ly lost – tem­porar­i­ly and not dras­ti­cal­ly – visu­al acu­ity in one eye, I can add a few more things to her list, and they’re not all bad.Read the rest

A LOT OF NOT ENOUGH WAS TOO MUCH

A LOT OF NOT ENOUGH WAS TOO MUCH

“Too much of any­thing is bad, but too much good whiskey is bare­ly enough”. Health con­cerns aside, Mark Twain’s apho­rism is an apt way to mea­sure the report­ing booze-up of the Trump arraign­ment. Too much of noth­ing hap­pen­ing on air for too long dis­tilled the live cov­er­age into a vin­tage more akin to a cheap blend than a fine sin­gle malt.Read the rest

Confucius, Cronkite and Credibility

Confucius, Cronkite and Credibility

Con­fu­cius once wrote: If lan­guage is not cor­rect, then what is said is not what is meant…Hence there must be no arbi­trari­ness in what is said. This mat­ters above everything.”

 Putting a 2,500-year-old Chi­nese sage and a tele­vi­sion news leg­end in the same head­line might seem like incon­gru­ous overload.Read the rest