We need to start teaching kids to diagram sentences again

Certain minds definitely benefit - more math minds perhaps(?) My 7th & 8th grade teacher wrote a 'book' on diagramming sentences titled "Slot Machine English" - every word must have a place and fit in its "slot". If there is no slot, you don't have a good sentence. Loved it.

Wow! Fascinating times we live in 👍🙏 medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-k…

Party Loveless is as Kentucky as the coal or red clay mud in the ground, the tobacco hanging in the barns, or the thoroughbreds in its fields. youtu.be/1n57WBtvtC4?si…

Ugh. 🙄🤦

Loved this quote heard over the weekend: "Truth has nothing to fear from inquiry" 🤔 Why then, do so many people today recoil and become angry at a question?

Nancy Leonard: The first and only General Manager of a professional basketball team. Saved the Pacers in the 70s, thereby saving a city and community from perhaps complete decline. #StatuteThat

Random thought/theory: If a parent didn't give, or provide, a child the right things in the child's early years, it probably is not going to make a difference what the parent tries to give them in the parent's later years.

Wouldn't it be great, and more impactful for our children, if educators and university administration were treated with the same scrutiny and financial support? 🤔 Imagine pre semester shows with analysts talking about how they can improve this year, who had a great recruitment.

This is very important to do as you get older

Rand Paul: "They decided to test [a 102-year-old woman] for antibodies… because when she was six months old, her mother… d*ed from the Spanish Flu. She got it, survived… She still had antibodies… So [natural] immunity lasts a long damn time."

Tanning Salon Don Most of us think that authority and respect comes from forceful leadership. At worse, we never learn better and fail to ever effectively lead. At best, we learn from good role models that true leadership never comes through force.

Ted Sosin?

3am musings: the one thought, the one philosophy, the one truth that I hold the closest is this - that I know so little ( but desperately want to know more). I am then left to wonder - how can others be so certain? The answer(s) seem to lie in two extreme opposite explanations

Human nature for the default - undefeated

🎓✨ 63 freshman students at Tech proudly celebrated their commitment to earning the Indiana College Core Early College Signing Day Celebration! This milestone marks the beginning of We are incredibly proud of these young scholars! #EarlyCollege #CollegeBound

“Don’t be a slave to stupid rules.” — Jordan Peterson

For all my Character & Fitness interviewees for the Indiana State Bar exam 🤷🏻

“Make it a habit to respect people without knowing their qualifications, title or position.”