"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Sunday, December 1, 2013

This is What Thinkers are About!

I am this Thanksgiving weekend grateful for many things, not the least of which is the single most intelligent conversation to be heard on public airwaves.  I refer of course to the weekly Shields and Brooks meeting on the PBS NewsHour.  

This is a very pleasurable end to my week and I hope it becomes a habit of yours.  This week the meat of the discussion and the real 'thinking material' starts about 5 minutes in, after they have a relatively mundane discussion about the Iran agreement. 



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