Friday, September 20, 2024

Post 700 - Benjamin Franklin and A Republic - Editorial in Big Rapids Pioneer 20 September 2024

I considered first just making a comment about the essay, but the piece is so well written that I decided to lift it straight from the readers' page of the Big Rapids Pioneer.  That it needs to be said, in a region of Michigan where the erosion of civility and intellect is at times stunning, emphasizes the concurrent erosion of who we are as a nation -- and what it means to exist as a supportive society.  End of soapbox.  

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Saturday, September 14, 2024

Post 698 - Evolving Slide Show - Astro Boy and Diplomacy

This is evolving - time restraints squeezed out the discussion from the recent ASIFA Central retreat.  I figure if I leave it here, I'll get around to filling in the gaps sometime...someday...somewhere!



The translation of information struck me by the comparatively minimal number of characters in the Chinese translation.  5000 years with a language must certainly offer the opportunity for denser meanings to each character - something that I suspect may take longer to understand than your typical Rosetta exercises.









"Let's Rocket" - ominous in the current international climate!