Humans Are Crude Linguists From

When Our Culture Shifts, It Tends To Overcorrect, Throwing Out Everything Associated With An Era We've Moved Past, Rather Than Saving What Was Good And Combining It With What Is New.

There's A Deep-freeze Of Sorts For All Good Intentions - A Place That You Store Your Plans To Make Changes In Your Life When You Know You're Not Going To Make Them At All.

If We Were A Culture Of High-risk Alcoholics, And Suddenly We Had Jack Daniels Piped Into Our Houses, We Would Be Feeding That Fire. Social Networking, And The Internet As A Whole, Seems To Have Simply Landed In An Extremely Fertile Place In An Extremely Fertile Time In History, When We All Have These Narcissistic Tendencies Anyway - You Can Go Further Back Into The Self-esteem Movement, And Dr. Spock, And The 'everybody Gets A Ribbon At The Track Meet' Sort Of Thing, Which Preceded The Internet - And Then You Drop The Internet Into The Middle Of This, And We've All Gone Haywire.

Humans Are Crude Linguists From The Moment Of Birth - And Perhaps Even In The Womb - To The Extent At Least That We Can Hear Spoken Sounds And Begin To Recognize Different Combinations Of Language Sounds.

The Best Thing About Science Is That Hard, Empirical Answers Are Always There If You Look Hard Enough. The Best Thing About Religion Is That The Very Absence Of That Certainty Is What Requires - And Gives Rise To - Deep Feelings Of Faith.