SOLVING A PUZZLE -- Just a Minute Radio for Monday 10-12-0

            Hello on a due to be rainy Monday… Makes it hard to hang clothes outside, right?  I remember.

 

            Lots of things these days are easier than they *were*.  I remember Mom hanging clothes out – because I helped… I was hardly tall enough to reach the clothes line… but I could hold the clothespin bag… a very important assignment. Funny though… I don’t remember a LOT of times we had to take them in or re-hang.  I do remember the ladies saying if the clothes froze on the line… they still would dry most of the time because the humidity was a lot lower. Later I learned you call that sublimation – (I think) – to cause a solid or a gas to change state without becoming a liquid – I ran into that again when I was learning to fly IFR – getting ice off the wings.  

 

            Oh, well… lots of things we learn that are useful – and some that are useless… Or maybe it’s just trying to teach us that seems useless – at least to frustrated teachers.

 

            Today’s JUST A MINUTE deals with subject matter at Harvard in a class called JUSTICE… in which the professor deals with subjects like health care reform especially as it affects the elderly. And other moral questions like same sex marriage… or abortion… It was quite an interesting essay in this past weekend edition of the Wall St. Journal. We have neither time nor space nor patience to deal with it here.  But if you’re interested there’s likely a copy in the local library. We’ve got a lot of catching up to do.

 

            And what about that Peace Prize? Isn’t that as they say a Piece of Work?  I guess we’ll leave that to the scholars, magicians and moral theorists … it’ surely isn’t safe in the hands of politicians. They’ll never get out of that conundrum – kind of like a cornfield maze only more difficult.  

 

            Well… next time – maybe we’ll talk about building a root cellar.  That’s nice and peaceful.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack and Barbara

 

            PS – Thanks to all our friends in Spindale for inviting us to the 100^th Anniversary of the Adaville Church. It was a lot of fun seeing so many good friends.

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

SOLVING A PUZZLE 

Just A Minute – Professor Michael J. Sandel, who teaches Government at Harvard – regularly inculcates undergraduates with a course, entitled “Justice.”  It’s taught by a man presumably imparting wisdom to yet malleable minds.  But given the Harvard’s bent these days it doesn’t seem to hang together – at least to my un-malleable mind.

The professor’s class is popular filling a thousand seat auditorium each time it’s offered.  He is a well-known “communitarian” according to the Weekend Wall St. Journal writer, Charlotte Allen.  The professor challenges his students with puzzles – not unlike the popular Sudoku puzzles that many – including my wife, but not me – find challenging.  It’s supposed to bring progressive – not to say liberal – thinking to bear on questions of health-care rationing favoring younger over older patients.  According to Ms. Allen, many of the students walk out of the class as clueless as they were when they came in about solving moral problems.

For instance, as for restricting expensive Medicare treatments to those young enough to be “worth it” – the professor fails to emphasize we all grow older.

This is “higher” education?

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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