"If two people have the same goal, you know nothing about the similarity of their results. But if two people have the same daily habits, you can infer quite a bit about the similarity of their results. Your results are largely a byproduct of your habits." – James Clear

I have yet to hear of a school that went truly phone free and did NOT find rapid improvement of school culture. Students talk to each other directly, bonds strengthen, cruelty drops.

A startup called Telly has begun shipping free smart TVs that come with attached second screens for ads and other content in a novel strategy to help marketers target viewers on.wsj.com/44DB4ni

Great idea. . . except that they would have to pay ME to put one in my home. What is the economic value of getting me to view your ads?

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A lot of you idiots cheering on first degree murder because you think the victim was a bad person need to go watch A Man For All Seasons immediately

The key to criticizing to best effect is to remember the gift/weapon rule: If I am criticizing to help, I am doing it right; if I am doing it to harm, I am doing it wrong. To keep critical feedback in the first category, the research tells us that it should have five elements:

I hate everything about this bill and everyone who votes for it.

Charlie Brown—naive, earnest, and a bit insecure—begins the show wondering what the whole point of Christmas is. He is essentially sad because he feels undervalued and underutilized. He doesn’t say this because he doesn’t know it. He goes to Lucy—diva, privileged, and never

Incredibly well said

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it, from my family to yours. No matter where you are today, I hope your life is full of love, and that you bring that love to those who need it.

BETHLEHEM — According to sources, the eternal Word of God has become flesh in the form of a newborn baby. Some claim that this child is the human incarnation of the God of the Universe, who has come to reconcile a broken creation with its holy Creator, saving a wayward human

The political left has a lack of interest in poor people.

"If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don't congratulate yourself on your compassion." — Thomas Sowell

Do you agree?

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter. Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Isaiah 59: 14-15

"Here are so many wants, so many affections and passions engaged, so varying in their interests and objects, that no one can be conciliated without revolting others". —THOMAS JEFFERSON, on the political culture of Washington, D.C. Not much has changed. . .

"There is a worldwide epidemic of mental illness in children." At ARC 2025, Erica Komisar, LCSW shared a difficult truth that cuts deep: the mental health epidemic in our children is rooted in emotional and physical neglect in early childhood. Her keynote breaks down insights from

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia explains the U.S. Constitution. 🇺🇸 🦅 ⚖️

I wish more people understood how important this is and why we should ALL be grateful for our system of governance. Scalia nails it!