A better life is available to you.
If you want it, and will work for it,
you can have it.
I will recite that often on The William Tell Show. It’s the sort of thing one hears from Barack Obama.
Category Archives: The William Tell Show
“Don’t blame college kids for intolerance. Blame us.”
Don’t blame college kids for intolerance. Blame us.
One gets the impression from Matt Bai’s article that closed-mindedness is something new.
I think first of a quotation from Jeff Snyder, from 1993:
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Inmates knitting; and other news
The Gettysburg Address
Next project is to resume work on comedic material for my radio show.
Digging through archives this morning, stumbled on a reference to the Gettysburg Address.
Does anyone still remember what that was?
At this difficult moment in our nation,
we might do well to recall and reflect on that text,
and possibly remember who we are.
Someone stole my tablet.
If someone says they’re fleeing crime, believe them.
What is pomegranate juice? and other stories
Laura Nyro
Memorial Day 2018
Yesterday at Burger King I heard a song I’d never heard before, that impressed me enough to do significant research. I don’t know who did the cover. From the music and the lyrics, I supposed the creator to be Elton John. The music really moved me, but I found the lyrics to be dark.
It proved to be “Stoney End,” created by Laura Nyro.
I knew nothing about her.
Turns out she created a ton of hits, and was vastly influential.
She eschewed the celebrity lifestyle, which I think William Tell would like to do also.
Wikipedia: “Stoney End”
Wikipedia: Laura Nyro
Heart and soul
| “Purity of heart is to will one thing.” | |
| — Soren Kierkegaard | |
Changing the subject
Free Speech Handbook Guideline No. 7: Don’t change the subject.
In a recent classic case, unable to refute Emma Gonzalez on the question of gun violence, Steve King accused her of being allied with communist Cuba.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I, as William Tell, will respond when people say ugly things. Sometimes I myself may change the subject.
I’ve been one, too.
For about two years, while I was in college, I was a rabid bigot against Jews.
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