From Laura at The BabyNameWizzard Blog, she has an analysis of Red vs. Blue names for boys and girls:... Moral Intelligence is knowing right from wrong. Moral Competence is doing what's right. Unfortunately, because of the fallibility of human nature, it is highly likely most of us have been both morally intelligent and morally incompetent at the same time. What's vital for sustainable organizational and personal success, however, is a directional commitment to our moral principles, what we call our moral compass.
The strength of tradition seems to be biggest theme dividing red and blue names. Red staters are more prone to neologize--to create new names from surnames (Tanner), place names (Brooklyn), or simply appealing sounds (Kaden). Blue staters are more likely to stick to traditional naming stock. Even when they seek fresh territory, it's among traditional first names: antiques (Ava) or foreign imports (Gianna). In other words, the political conservatives turn out to be the naming activists, and the political progressives are the naming conservatives.
From Evelyn Rodriguez at Crossroads Dispatches comes her analysis of DIO:
But doing it yourself is only scratching the surface. My dependence of others after my near-bankruptcy and after the tsunami reinforced how interdependent we truly are, and that was an unexpected blessing. In the midst of chaos, compassion reigned. One of the lessons that stuck for me in the tsunami was this amazing idea of we're in this together, and we're working together.
So I'm just as interested in DIO - doing it ourselves. Not going it entirely solo.
From Dave Pollard at How to Save the World
While I was reading the magazine (in the airport terminal) I was drinking a Starbucks chai latte. I noticed it had these curious words on the side of a cup (good reading material in airports is hard to find):
The Way I See It #23
chances are you
are scared of fictions --
chances are you
are only fleetingly happy --
chances are you
know much less than you think you do --
chances are you
feel a little guilty --
chances are you
want people to lie to you --
perhaps the answer lies on the side of a coffee cup:
you are lost
(by writer-comedian David Cross)
Enough catching up for tonight. Enjoy!
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