“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours” — John Locke, 17th century English philosopher * Propublica says the EPA has a report linking fracking chemicals to an instance of groundwater contamination in Wyoming. This has huge import for the state of Michigan, where hydrofracturing, […]
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“I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about” — Oscar Wilde, British playwright and writer. * As a lover of Thanksgiving since, oh, the early 1970s, I’m confident I share culpability in this trend. For the record, I prefer a mix of breast and leg meat from the Turkey, […]
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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life” — Lord Byron, 19th century English poet. * “Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!” So, one state lawmaker gets recalled in a quarter-century and there’s a bipartisan rush to change the recall rules in Michigan? […]
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“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind’s dignity” — William Ellery Channing, an American writer. * “Michigan now consistently ranks in the bottom of states in both performance and improvement in student achievement, after a continued relative decline, according to data released today from the 2011 National Assessment […]
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“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen” — 19th century writer Oliver Wendell Holmes. * The folks over at the Mackinac Center, via their Capitol Confidential site, have a list of recommendations for reforming the state’s archaic liquor control system. Take a look and the […]
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“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man” — William Penn, founder of the colony of Pennsylvania, and the ultimate cause of many incorrect answers on grammar-school spelling exams. * More worries from local government leaders about their finances if Gov. Rick Snyder and allies in the Legislature engineer a repeal of the personal property […]
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“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice” — Anton Chekov, 19th century Russian writer. * Noted lefty Todd Gitlin — a senior figure in the SDS movement in the 1960s notes CFM President Phil Power — writes in the New York Times about the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street […]
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“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way” — Thomas Jefferson. * Will salmon fishing become a tale of bygone days in the Great Lakes?: http://www.michiganradio.org/post/more-ups-and-downs-salmon-great-lakes * Gallup finds that voters have more confidence […]
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“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it” — Samuel Johnson, 18th-century English author. * The jury’s still out on whether Gov. Rick Snyder’s approach to renewable energy will be better than his predecessor’s: http://mlui.org/landwater/fullarticle.asp?fileid=17517 * Where it is dangerous to be a […]
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“Convinced myself, I seek not to convince” — renowned optimist Edgar Allan Poe. * Matt Yglesias is a fascinating blogger — he engages a wide variety of issues with energy, intelligence and humility. When he doesn’t know much about a subject, he admits it and tries to point his readers to better sources. A recurring […]