Good parrot.

A colleague in Afghanistan shared a terrifying realization with me today: “Nearly 4 years without school, learning is a thing of the past. Some girls say they feel too depressed to study. Or they are busy with housework. We may struggle to find girls ready, or able, to learn.”

Today In 1989: Cincinnati #Reds outfielder Paul O'Neill makes an all-time classic play vs. the Philadelphia #Phillies when he bobbles and then kicks the baseball back to first base! ⚾️ #MLB #Baseball #History

I really enjoyed this book by Cassirer the first time I read it now I am returning to for a second time!!!!

THANK YOU FOR your service Sir

Straight to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.

There is absolutely no difference between a hard thing and a soft thing so long as they are not brought to the test.

Suppose, then, that a diamond could be crystallized in the midst of a cushion of soft cotton, and should remain there until it was finally burned up. Would it be false to say that that diamond was soft? This seems a foolish question, and would be so, in fact, /1

except in the realm of logic. There such questions are often of the greatest utility as serving to bring logical principles into sharper relief than real discussions ever could. /2x

In studying logic we must not put them aside with hasty answers, but must consider them with attentive care, in order to make out the principles involved.

We may, in the present case, modify our question, and ask what prevents us from saying that all hard bodies remain perfectly soft until they are touched, when their hardness increases with the pressure until they are scratched. Reflection will show that the reply is this: /1

there would be no falsity in such modes of speech. They would involve a modification of our present usage of speech with regard to the words hard and soft, but not of their meanings. For they represent no fact to be different from what it is; /2

only they involve arrangements of facts which would be exceedingly maladroit. /3x

This leads us to remark that the question of what would occur under circumstances which do not actually arise is not a question of fact, but only of the most perspicuous arrangement of them.

Mr. Volpe, we don’t hurt Aaron Judge

anthony volpe's throw hitting aaron judge's face

FOUR STRAIGHT WINS FOR THE METS! 🚇

Nice diving play by Brett Baty on a 108-mph Aaron Judge grounder, to end the game and keep Judge hitless on the afternoon.

Bobby Jenks, closer for 2005 World Series champion Chicago White Sox, dies at 44 usatoday.com/story/sports/m…

The Mets' decision to hit Starling Marte leadoff paid off in their win over the Yankees on.sny.tv/XtChX9G