Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

Macaulay, Gibbon, Plato etc. must train the muscles to wield that sword to the greatest effect. This is indeed a nice subdivision of the term "education". The result of one kind of learning is valued by what you know. Of the other by what you are. The latter is far more important - but it is useless in the total absence of the former. A judicious proportion should be observed. How many people forgot this! The education of the school-boy - and of nearly all undergraduates aims only at stocking the mind with facts. I have no ambition to "stifle my spark of intelligence under the weight of literary fuel" but I appreciate the power of facts. Hence my toil. From New-Wave Conservatives and the Lesson of Churchill   courtesy of American Thinker

Test from the iPad using new blogger software.

First try from my iPhone. Usually I write from the PCs, but this new iOs app is an interesting start. So I'll post a man's fairy tale and see how it goes.

Is School Really That Important?

I have been updating some materials and moving things over to Google +, after I got a invite.  I really like the new system and will be heading over there.  If you would like an invite – The QR code on is on page – just scan with your QR code and Bob’s your uncle.  Or of course, just click on this link: https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/ngemlink?path=%2F%3Fgpinv%3DgvFnBD5h9gc%3ATX1FdPOgYhY   - which is really silly.  However, one of the new services is goog.il URL Shortener – which  will make it: goo.gl/CEY1u , so if you don’t like the long one – click there. Or even e-mail me through the site and if I have any invites left – I’ll forward them on.  If you want to add me to your circles – just use cole.cooper@gmail.com . 

I often read Ben Stein’s Diary on the American Spectator   – and they are great little pieces of nostalgia and celebration of the small things in life that should be enjoyed.  Ben is at that time of life were he has the ability to sit back and “smell the roses” as he gives thanks for each day.  A great way to live.  What I enjoyed about a recent column wasn’t the column itself, but rather the postscript.  From Far Away From the Panic . A LITTLE POSTSCRIPT. I notice that the papers and the Internet talk about the big losses on the stock markets yesterday as being based on "...waves of investor panic..." Nonsense. The selling is done by billionaire traders and immense hedge funds and high frequency traders who seek to make money by selling, then tricking others into selling even more, then covering their shorts at lower prices. This is not Ma and Pa Kettle calling their broker and selling their 1000 shares of AT&T. It is cynical, calculated m...