tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post5260625523000559897..comments2023-06-28T07:58:56.909-04:00Comments on PERGE MODO: Curiosity as an American valueTony Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10091330901996916966noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-25030990791012790562009-01-26T16:11:00.000-05:002009-01-26T16:11:00.000-05:00I'm with Will on this one- I'm going to have to to...I'm with Will on this one- I'm going to have to totally retrain myself as to how to watch the news and not automatically start hissing the moment an announcer says "Today the President...."Doralonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08529026755912430796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-80594549538921727542009-01-20T20:43:00.000-05:002009-01-20T20:43:00.000-05:00Full sentences, words pronounced correctly and of ...Full sentences, words pronounced correctly and of more than one syllable, thoughts coherently developed, literacy--OMG! I'd forgotten that a president could speak this way. I'm verklempt! Talk amongst yourselves . . .Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14279473113628377106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-6454817299836912992009-01-20T18:20:00.000-05:002009-01-20T18:20:00.000-05:00I am so excited to have a president who places rea...I am so excited to have a president who places reason, rationality and reality above rhetoric, religion and reactions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-12308420784227077252009-01-20T16:51:00.000-05:002009-01-20T16:51:00.000-05:00Perhaps "curiosity" was code? Code for: Don't glo...Perhaps "curiosity" was code? <BR/><BR/>Code for: Don't glorify wilful ignorance. <BR/><BR/>Code for: No more parochialism.<BR/><BR/>There is a world outside of Crawford, Wasilla and Kennebunkport. Learn from the people of that world, before you judge them as enemies, or inferiors. Or you simply dismiss them as irrelevant.<BR/><BR/>It takes a lifetime of disciplined curiosity, to equip one with wisdom. <BR/><BR/>You cannot achieve it with a "quick study". <BR/><BR/>That's how I decode "curiosity". What say you?The Honourable Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05234119524600114890noreply@blogger.com