Apropos:
A sure way to tell if you’re listening to collective improvisation is if the music is so jaw-droppingly intricate and flexible that no single mind could think it all up in such detail.
Phil Lesh, Searching for the Sound, 114.
Take a good look around…
w spoke to reporters a bit about education yesterday:
“You’re asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer is ‘yes.'”
I agree 100%. Seems like the basic stuff of education; why we have courses in biology, victorian literature, economics, comparative religions, mythology, and so forth.
Apparently w wasn’t making a general statement though. It seems that he may have been talking about some kind of mixing of subjects; creating one of those hybrid multi-discline classes: something like Remedial Mysticism 100: Survey of Biology and Religious Mythology.
I wanted to rise to the bait yesterday but did not have time. There were, though, plenty of other voices…go read’m!
By the way, does anyone have a link to a transcript of w’s interaction with that small group of reporters?
The Indiana Bureau of Motor vehicles is showing strong initiative when confronted by the market failure inherent to government operations:
In what has to join the list of Most Bizarre Government Policies Ever, BMV bosses have decided that hiding clocks is a great way to make long waits seem shorter. Without clocks to watch, people standing in long lines supposedly won’t be able to complain about just how long they’ve been waiting.
I wonder if they also confiscate employee and patron watches…
As Balko says: Beyond Parody.