October 2010
19 posts
“Well, although I’ve lived in the South nearly 30 years I’m a Yankee born and raised, and I can tell you with reasonable authority that no one in North thinks or talks about the Civil War. Nor do they talk about SEC football. Nor do they worry about what Southerners think of them, whereas I’ve heard many Southerners explain the football prowess of SEC schools in terms of self-esteem — i.e., that success on the football field is what allows Southerners to feel they’re “just as good” as everyone else, even though everyone else is blessedly unaware of the outcome of the Iron Bowl, or even where it’s played.”
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Tea Party Ideals - Tom Junod on the Tea Party as Sore Winners - Esquire
I don’t think much of a man who lives in the South and doesn’t care about the outcome of the Iron Bowl.
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It is said that at all times there are 36 special people in the world, and that were it not for them, all of them, if even one of them was missing, the world would come to an end.
Tradition holds that their identities are unknown to each other and that, if one of them comes to a realization of their true purpose then they may die and their role is immediately assumed by another person.
I like to think my mother’s mother was one of ‘em. Lord knows, she held us together as long as she could.
“The more efficiently a society identifies the most able young people of both sexes, sends them to the best colleges, unleashes them into an economy that is tailor-made for people with their abilities and lets proximity take its course, the sooner a New Elite — the “cognitive elite” that Herrnstein and I described — becomes a class unto itself. It is by no means a closed club, as Barack Obama’s example proves. But the credentials for admission are increasingly held by the children of those who are already members. An elite that passes only money to the next generation is evanescent (“Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations,” as the adage has it). An elite that also passes on ability is more tenacious, and the chasm between it and the rest of society widens.”
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The tea party warns of a New Elite. They’re right.
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This past Friday I saw you speak at the "designing happiness" conference and you recommended reading "Luke's book." Could you please repeat the full name and title of the book?
Happy to! The book was Luke Wroblewski’s “Web Form Design”.
