“Plato”
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”
— Plato
Picture: Plato and his famous pupil, Alexander of Macedonia.
By GROK AI
Actually, it was Aristotle I was incorrect…
“My ‘Little’ Black Truck”
It’s been in the shop for a week.
It had an ‘airbag’ leak.
There are eight ‘airbags’, each about the size of a gallon jug.
Four for the cab, and two on each axle.
It’s supposed to hold 195lbs of air pressure, and it shouldn’t ever have to be recharged. It won’t hold pressure ten minutes with the engine off.
It had a power steering leak.
It needed PM, and I had them check the brakes.
It has 165,000 miles, we put all but 2800 were driven by us.
We have a habit of crossing the continent.
Which we will do twice this year, so maintenance is especially important.
The power steering pump had to be replaced, with new hoses.
That doubled the cost.
When your ride is a ‘pachyderm’, the ‘Vet’ bills are large…
Pictures; 1. My sister in law took the first picture in their driveway, after its first transcontinental trip.
2. On top of the continental divide, in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, near Yellowstone.
"Economist and author Thomas Sowell makes his long-awaited (and oft requested) return to Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson to unveil his newest project: a website titled "Facts Against Rhetoric", a powerful resource dedicated to empirical thinking and intellectual clarity. In this interview, Sowell explores some of the most urgent issues in American life—from the collapse of educational standards to the unintended consequences of affirmative action, the impact of tariffs, and the erosion of family and cultural structures within Black communities.
Drawing on a lifetime of scholarship and lived experience, Sowell revisits the remarkable but forgotten progress made by African Americans in the century following the Civil War, dismantles myths surrounding capitalism and inequality, and challenges dominant narratives in academia and media. With clarity, wit, and intellectual honesty, Sowell calls for a return to a culture that values facts over feelings—and results over intentions."...
