🔗 Medina Spirit dies during routine workout
You have to feel for this horse. It’s been through the ringer - public triumph, public disgrace, drug abuse - but now it’s all over.
Links — 2021
🔗 “Moral AND ethical”
When you hear someone has both moral AND ethical reasons, some smoke is being blown your way. Why can’t the reasons just be moral? Or simply ethical? Putting the both together cancels out whatever reasons we’re there in the first place.
🔗 Bob Dylan back out on the road
Wish he were coming my way on this first leg. Would very much like to see the Rough & Rowdy ways songs in a live setting.
🔗 Convincing college students
As a former campus minister, I am familiar with the sheer volume of STUFF and FREE items and things and offers that get thrown at college students. Things get lost in the shuffle.
And my alma mater, the University of Iowa, is (hilariously) offering vaccinated students a $10 gift card to shop in downtown Iowa City. Where the only thing that’s $10 is a salad or 3 cups of coffee. Which, honestly, would have been enough for me in the year of our LORD 2000. But maybe not sufficient today.
🔗 There’s plutonium under the ocean
This is just wild to me. Rekindles your wonder about the weirdness of the natural world.
🔗 Medina Spirit fails a drug test
How can I explain this to my daughter? That, on occasion, people drug horses so they can run faster. Not because the horse needs to or cares - simply for profit and glory.
🔗 Who do you know? Who do you trust?
Who keeps you sane? Who cleans off the dust?
To be sure, there is a lot of churn in human social networks even in the best of times. Several studies show we replace as much as half of our social network every five to seven years. Little wonder when research also shows only half of our friendships are mutual. That is, only half of those who we think are our friends feel the same way about us. It just normally takes us a while to figure that out.
The notion that only half of what I consider to be friendships are mutually considered as such rings true to me.
🔗 Dogs in your DNA
Many people feel it's the right and correct and proper way to live to own a dog. Many believe that cats are the one true path along the pet ownership journey.
Only one of these is backed up by history. And it isn't the Meow that echoed through humanity's early days. Unless it was stalking prey.
🔗 One less asteroid to worry about
If your brain itches when it wanders toward all the potential threats lurking out there in the universe, it’s good news when one single threat can be taken off the board.
🔗 kamakura-fm
My current favorite radio station is a Japanese community radio station that plays mostly jazz. Kamakura FM. The Internet can be a good place.