Comments on: Chinese bishops

By: fishbane

fishbane — Sun, 07 May 2006 01:52:37 +0000

I’d say that it is important that lots of us don’t, in fact, need policy. We’re too busy building things. Oddly, and for various reasons, many of us (those of us who can handle a new language) small business types are considering moving. Scandanavia is looking very interesting to us squishy individualists, as we start contemplating turning 40.
I’m portable, as is the service I provide. And I could care less about kids.

By: James Wimberley

James Wimberley — Sat, 06 May 2006 15:04:41 +0000

Francis Bacon, a much more succesful Renaissance politician than poor Macchiavelli, had this to say in his lapidary essay “Of Counsel” http://www.bartleby.com/3/1/20.html:
“Let us now speak of the inconveniences of counsel, and of the remedies… Thirdly, the danger of being unfaithfully counselled, and more for the good of them that counsel than of him that is counselled. For which inconveniences, the doctrine of Italy, and practice of France, in some kings� times, hath introduced cabinet counsels; a remedy worse than the disease.”
Read the whole thing, including an insight into the importance of the seating plan at a meeting table.

By: Prior Aelred

Prior Aelred — Sat, 06 May 2006 13:40:19 +0000

This is only one of several brilliant posts this morning — is it a Sabbath thing?
This ties closely to the post above, of course — about power & learning — it deserves to be written in letters of gold!