It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
- Anthony Trollope
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Not to be outdone by the good Doc, I have included a few quick flower porn snaps from the hot, lurid, sexually charged grounds surrounding my house. Well, to be honest, it's just plain hot, as in approaching 90F with more humidity than a swimming pool.
Inspired by Leigh Butler at tor.com, I've been re-reading Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books. This happened to coincide with my recent vicious cold, which is good, because they're great sickbed reading.
To continue the recent American Association for the Advancement of Science theme, I present the text of a recent open letter I signed to the AAAS concerning their new journal Science Advances.
What a weird phrasing! I'm going to assume that Trollope was one of these types who saw work as its own virtue, thereby anyone who was both rich enough and disinclined enough to work was in need of "rescuing," preferably by the punitive means of having more children than he could feed on his existing budget.
I'm personally of the opinion that people need to be rescued from work, particularly if they're disinclined to do it in the first place. Nobody's worse to work with (and in some cases, life-threateningly dangerous) than someone who doesn't want to be there.