Thanks to @PloughBooks and @cnkeiper for letting me write about a few things I like a whole lot:

@davidpdeavel @JLLiedl You can actually find information on this money and how it used through the Government Accountability Office Instead of tweets from a meme page.

@davidpdeavel @JLLiedl What's the cost of human lives, after all?

The skilled workmen needs good materials

@iowahawkblog Also, Dakotans love da packers

@jeff_bilbro Makes sense--read not the Times, as he said!

@jeff_bilbro who attributed the quality of oratory and writing in that period to a widespread and deep familiarity with the KJV (and maybe you could add the classics). Perhaps there's a further distinction too between the pamphlet and the daily rag as media and the book.

RT @JapanTraCul: Calm Wind, by Yoshida Hiroshi, 1936

@AnnaKateShelt I discovered this talk last year, which, interestingly, he gave on the occasion of Pope JP II's visit to Colorado: Which I have thought a lot about in assessing new technologies.

@jeff_bilbro I trust your take on this!

@jeff_bilbro And certainly there was no golden age of perfection, but we do observe periods of better and worse public discourse, I think, over time.

Which we can also apply, in some respects, as readers toward a text and its author.

@_Herveus @hmkherman It is well known he knows nothing about dogs! (kidding)