Friday Five
Five political links to start the weekend:
- 25 Harshest Reactions to the Wallstreet Bailout
- Religion in America: Why Many Democrats and Europeans Don't Get it
- Japan's new prime minister, Taro Aso, is some kind of superhero
- The Subprime Primer
- The Onion: Point/Counterpoint
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Friday Five
Five cycling links for the week.
- Why Cyclists Hate Stop Signs
- How to Not Get Hit by Cars
- Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery
- Vintage Trek
- Tokyo Bicycle Parking Tower
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Friday Five
Five things I remembered for aikido class last night:
- How to roll.
- Gyaku hanmi.
- Ai hanmi.
- Beginners' mind. Not a big stretch, there.
- To practice in a vibrant and joyful manner.
Bonus: Five things I forgot:
- My contact lenses. Maybe I don't need them.
- My dues check.
- Not to slide on the mat. Mat burn! Ouch!
- How to remain standing. But only briefly.
- To find an excuse not to practice.
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Friday Five
Five quips; whether they're funny or not is up to you. I thought so.
- Atheism is a religion like bald is a hair color.
- The Electoral College is like Affirmative Action for rednecks.
- Any field that has
science
in the name isn't. - A husband, about his wife:
She won't let me put my foot down.
- Headline:
Americans expecting recession, survival.
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Friday Five
Words to live by.
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
- Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need.
- Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
- The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
- The superior person has dignified ease without pride; the ordinary person has pride without dignified ease.
Attributions:
- Aristotle
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Stephen Hawking
- Socrates
- Confucius
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