so was that duck really hoping the lemonade stand had grapes or was it like Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman ordering Schlitz at that fancy restaurant

Thanks Kelly Libbey for talking with me for your well-done segment on the latest "Call to Mind" broadcast special: calltomindnow.org/promise-peri...

And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Zoom, King of Kings;
Look on my Meetings, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains.

"The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."

-Carl Von Clausewitz, "On War"

one day you're just a kid who can't wait to grow up and before you know it you're turning on the television and Frasier Crane is looking like a guy who would call you "sir."

Goodbye to someone who always got a lot of us thinking (fast and slow, of course). I particularly admired his reflections on social priming just over a decade ago and think we can still heed them more.

behavioralpolicy.princeton.edu/news/DanielK...

When my workplace starts a meal train for coworkers but I am an awful cook:

Life insurance salespeople when they finally get me on the phone and I answer three questions:

🎵Despite all my rage...🎵

"And who would have guessed that a shirtless recently-retired NFL player and a spindly neurodiverse NFL head coach would be just the right men to make me follow the NFL again?"

I greet you with a little validation for any of you who have ever felt like I have the social graces of someone who was born on another planet: