HB Stevland (Stevie Wonder). I named my first son after him, srsly.
His greatest piece of writing? The good/evil fight in this song. Listen as he alternates between the two, even to asking nicely "Can (may) I play?" and then bragging "Can I play!"
That's no accident. It's art.
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May 13, 2025 - 1:41pm
HB Stevland (Stevie Wonder). I named my first son after him, srsly.
His greatest piece of writing? The good/evil fight in this song. Listen as he alternates between the two, even to asking nicely "Can (may) I play?" and then bragging "Can I play!"
That's no accident. It's art.
Happy birthday to John Harrison, the amateur self-taught clockmaker who gave the world the marine chronometer, saving many lives and revolutionizing navigation on the 7 seas.
I was at the Greenwich Naval Museum a long time ago and they had a really interesting exhibit on the subject of determining longitude including a neat demonstration of what happens if you put a pendulum clock on a ship.
Happy birthday to John Harrison, the amateur self-taught clockmaker who gave the world the marine chronometer, saving many lives and revolutionizing navigation on the 7 seas.
Listened with tears rolling down my face a few days ago on NPR to a program highlighting Malala Yousafzai's 20th birthday, and how she celebrated it by speaking in Iraq to Yazadi girls.
“Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.”
as always everything on any given site isn't for everyone
wading through free speech (some more than others) to get the nuggets/pearls recommended
Why Bastiat Is As Relevant As Ever on His 216th Birthday
Here’s Bastiat’s famous quote on legal plunder (now frequently referred to as “crony capitalism” "political corruption"):
Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole—with their common aim of legal plunder—constitute socialism.
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong.See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Bookmarked.
“Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.”
Why Bastiat Is As Relevant As Ever on His 216th Birthday
Here’s Bastiat’s famous quote on legal plunder (now frequently referred to as “crony capitalism” "political corruption"):
Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole—with their common aim of legal plunder—constitute socialism.
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong.See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
