But some ring observers saw a man who was naturally 190 pounds being weighed down by muscle, killing his stamina. Holyfield won fights with intellect and mental toughness more than lung capacity. He’d collected an array of barfighter techniques, hitting opponents below the belt or raking their noses and cheeks with his elbow. And he regularly employed the clinch, leading with his head as he went to hug his opponent.
The Looming Bank Collapse
The U.S. financial system could be on the cusp of calamity. This time, we might not be able to save it.
You may think that such a crisis is unlikely, with memories of the 2008 crash still so fresh. But banks learned few lessons from that calamity, and new laws intended to keep them from taking on too much risk have failed to do so. As a result, we could be on the precipice of another crash, one different from 2008 less in kind than in degree. This one could be worse.
Neil Howe & William Strauss discuss the Turnings on CSPAN | 1997
In 1997, Neil Howe and William Strauss wrote a book called “The Fourth Turning” in which they argued that modern history develops according to a 4-part cycle. Howe predicted that a period of turmoil would begin roughly 10 years later and that this would eventually lead to a “refounding” of the system:
We make the following big prediction that beginning about 10 years from now America is due to enter a era of crisis an era of political and social upheaval that will last around 20 years or so until the late 2020s we call this era a fourth turning and we think it’s going to be a big threshold for the history of our nation it’s going to be something on par with World War two and the Great Depression
Well-behaved women seldom make history
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” You may have seen that quote on bumper stickers or t-shirts, or maybe you’ve seen it as “Well-behaved women rarely make history.” The quote often appears without attribution. I’ve sometimes seen it attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt and Marilyn Monroe. But who really said “well-behaved women seldom make history?”
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
Who?
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
Ulrich wrote “well-behaved women seldom make history” in a 1976 article about Puritan funeral services. What? You didn’t read it? Pfft.
Okay, I didn’t either.
I did read Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, a book written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich after she saw her words popping up on bumper stickers and coffee mugs.
In the book, Ulrich explores the strange phenomenon of having her words take on a life of their own while also sharing the stories of some interesting women from history, who may or may not be considered well-behaved and who may or may not be known.
When Ulrich originally wrote, . Well-behaved women seldom make history; a
she didn’t mean that women should misbehave in order to be memorable, which is how the quote is often interpreted. She wrote those words lamenting about the fact that so many women who made positive impacts on society are overlooked by history. Relatively few women have their names remembered. Women like Eleanor Roosevelt and Marilyn Monroe. Not women like Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
Quotes are often misattributed. Mary Tyler Mom has told her story of an inspirational quote attributed on a bottle cap to Martin Luther King, Jr. even though the words are from Martin Luther. And of course there are many misattributed quotes floating around on the Internet. Mistakes happen, but I believe in trying to give people credit for their words.
The next time you see the quote “Well-behaved women seldom make history” or even “well-behaved women rarely make history” you may not remember Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s name, but I hope you at least remember that those words are not from Eleanor Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe, Kim Kardashian, or any other celebrity name that may be given credit. Those women have made their own histories.
Source: chicagonow.com
The lady doth protest too much
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a Shakespeare buff by any means. I vaguely remember reading Romeo & Juliet in school, but that’s really the extent of my knowledge. (However, I did used to think it was interesting that female parts were played by men for a period of time.) At any rate, there is a quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet that I seem to use over and over again when it comes to online dating and dating in general: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
” As our good friend Wikipedia shares, this phrase is often used as a figure of speech, to indicate that a person’s overly frequent or vehement attempts to convince others of something have ironically helped to convince others that the opposite is true, by making the person look insincere and defensive. For example, if your vegetarian friend says over and over again at dinner, “Of course I don’t care if you want to eat a steak in front of me,” then the number of times he says that often directly correlates to how much he actually does care.
Why the lesson in 17th century literature, you might ask? Well, as it relates to dating, people are often very quick to say something about themselves as a defense mechanism, when the reality of it is that without that defense, no one would make the very assumption that this person is denying.
I was perusing Match.com the other day, looking for women of interest for a client of mine in North Carolina, and I came across this profile below:
Not only is it perhaps one of the most boring profiles on the site, but it also says, “I like to do things like clean and organize but I’m not OCD.” Hmm… The first thing I immediately think is, “This woman is OCD, but she’s trying to hide it… very poorly.” If you’re not, then don’t call attention to it. And if you are, just be honest about it. Either choice is better than the one she made. Saying, “I love coming home to a clean, organized house,” gets the same point across without any judgment.
Besides being a very poor writer, this gentleman starts out by making two claims: “I’m not full of myself” and “I’m not a player.” Most women will read this as, “I’m a player, and I’m full of myself.”
In court, you’re innocent until proven guilty. It’s the same thing with online dating. There’s no need to compensate for something that should be considered the baseline, or the innocence, if you will. Unless told otherwise, the baseline is that you’re honest and nice and everything else good in the world. You’re starting at 100%. It’s when you start to refute things that should be the baseline that people will start to question you.
Source: Erika Ettin, Philadelphia Inquirer
JFK’s iconic speech inspired by ex-headmaster?
John F Kennendy (Wikipedia Commons)
HARTFORD, Connecticut – A document discovered at the boarding school attended by John F. Kennedy bolsters a theory that a former headmaster provided inspiration for his famous line, “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country
,” a school archivist said Thursday.
A notebook where the Choate School headmaster kept fodder for his sermons included a quote from a Harvard University dean who wrote: “The youth who loves his Alma Mater will always ask, not `What can she do for me?’ but `What can I do for her?”‘
Kennedy, who sat through the chapel sermons as a teenager in the 1930s, used similar language when he called the nation to service in his 1961 inauguration address.
What is the Future of Judaism in a culture that strips away context?
Tyler Cowen interviews David Wolpe (YouTube, Creative Commons Attribution license)
Tyler Cowen interviews David Wolpe
George Mason University Economics Professor Tyler Cowen interviewed rabbi David Wolpe as part of his Conversations with Tyler series.
Cowen said Judaism is commentary upon commentary and social media tends to strip away context. People don’t click through on the hyperlinks.
Wolpe responded:
I think that Judaism has the same problem that any thick civilization has in a world in which, as you say, context is stripped away. And not only is context stripped away, but attention to any one thing is scanter and less than it used to be. So, for example, a lot of Jewish commentary is based on your recognizing the reference that I make. Who recognizes references anymore? Because people don’t spend years studying books.
Панин призвал не сажать Ефремова в тюрьму
“Все приносят соболезнования погибшему человеку. Но Михаил Ефремов – великий артист, его нельзя сажать в тюрьму. Это мое личное мнение, я говорю коротко”, – заявил актер.
Ford против GM. Выбираем акции автопроизводителя
Еще до начала текущего кризиса Ford сталкивался с рядом серьезных проблем. Многие годы продажи росли, чему способствовали устойчивое состояние мировой экономики и высокий спрос на автомобили, но в последнее время интерес к его седанам существенно увял. В прошлом году чистая прибыль концерна упала более чем вдвое.