Oct. 9th, 2015

xiphias: (swordfish)
Okay, so, I tend to buy plain yogurt and put my own honey, jam, or whatever into it. But I bought a container of flavored yogurt.

I honestly don't remember them being as sweet as that. I had to cut it half-and-half with plain yogurt to make it not wince-worthy, and it was still on the high end of what I like for sweetness.

Have my tastebuds changed since I regularly bought flavored yogurt, say, five years ago or so, or have people started putting a LOT more sugar in?
xiphias: (swordfish)
Dungeons and Dragons distinguishes between "Intelligence" and "Wisdom." It's a very useful distinction, because "high Int low Wis" is a good thing to notice.

Ben Carson is very, very smart. And also very, very foolish.

See, "dumb" is not the same thing as "foolish." And "intelligence" is not the same thing as "wisdom."

Look -- I'm not as smart as most of you. I know that. It's not because I'm dumb -- I'm not. But I'm rarely the smartest person in the room, because I try to hang out in smart rooms. However... there are plenty of people who are smarter than me who nonetheless come to me for advice. Because I've got a decent amount of wisdom.

And I think that's one of the things that causes confusion in our Presidential campaigns. Yes, a President needs a reasonable degree of intelligence. I'd say that I'd like my President to have above-average intelligence, in general. A decent ability to understand and assimilate facts, to understand how science works, to figure things out. Those are important.

But I think wisdom is even MORE important, and THAT is in short supply in this primary season.

Dr Carson is a perfect example of the difference between intelligence and wisdom.

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