Joe Giles

Good advice and wise counsel. Most of it not mine.
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[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

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[The 7 Line @The7Line]

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[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

We should create, and re-create.

[The Alex Nowrasteh @AlexNowrasteh]

Exactly, but you can also extend this point to all forms of civil society. It’s very easy to get involved, meet your neighbors, etc. People would rather complain about missing it than creating it, which tells me that people don’t really want it.

[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

A reconsideration of medications, foods, and exercise would probably improve the health of children across the board.

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

One of the greatest evils of my 90s childhood was the sedation and casual drugging of young boys for acting like boys in a school system built for little girls.

And it’s only now that we’re finally allowed to ask questions. Decades too late.

[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

Must watch for baseball fans.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Do you think Moneyball is a good movie?

[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

Tip 1: Go outside, especially to the @NatlParkService sites.
Tip 2: If you’re going to @ArchesNPS, which is amazing, do check their info re: crowded times, restrictions, etc. It’s a popular location.

[Arches National Park @ArchesNPS]

🎂On April 12, 1929, President Herbert Hoover turned 1,920 acres in The Windows and 2,600 acres in Devils Garden into Arches National Monument. We've been here for 96 years! (The arches are much older.) We hope you help preserve Arches for years to come.
📷NPS photo/Jacob Frank

[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

If in doubt, don’t download it, don’t approve it. Rely more on active guidance of the child, and less on frameworks.

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

Parental controls depend on accurate app age ratings. When those ratings are misleading, the entire safety framework fails. The App Store Accountability Act is a common-sense fix, write @SpencerJCox and @BradWilcoxIFS
https://t.co/9iKTbx0jWb

[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

Basic tip, but easy to forget:

If you’ve got a half day of driving or more, check road closures and consult an app or two.

In Arizona, @ArizonaDOT is a must, unless you like being parked on an interstate for a few hours with no idea of what is going on.

[Arizona DOT @ArizonaDOT]

* I-10 RESTRICTIONS TONOPAH *

Starting Sunday, April 13, I-10 will be restricted in both directions in Tonopah for milling and paving. This is for the Salome Road to Tonopah pavement rehabilitation project.

More: https://t.co/3fRSg7Yvp1

[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

Read, reflect, write, revise, wrestle, reengage.

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“I believe that world literature has it in its power to help mankind, in these its troubled hours, to see itself as it really is, notwithstanding the indoctrinations of prejudiced people and parties.”

[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

TV is easy and often pleasing. Reading a book is often hard and frustrating.

Idea: track how much time you spend doing both. Compare, and reflect.

[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

Send them outside. Make sure they have a hammer and stick, and maybe a sand pile.

[M.A. Franklin @FoundationDads]

Our ancestors would be mystified watching us drug our boys for acting like boys. Boys used to be able to fill an entire day with nothing but a hammer and a stick.

[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

Roger Angell = Master Craftsman. I need to read more of his work.

[Christopher J. Scalia @cjscalia]

Roger Angell, who wrote about baseball for the New Yorker, was good at his job. I’ve been reading some of his essays from the 70s and they’re tremendous. Here, he’s unimpressed by ABC’s coverage, and especially Howard Cosell.

[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

Let us reside, not hide.

[Amy Welborn @amywelborn2]

The uncurated path of Holy Week:

Left to my own devices, and within the context of my responsibilities, I can essentially design – or, as the fashionable say these days, “curate” my own life. I can listen to what I want, turn off what disturbs me and tune out what don’t want to see or hear. I can, if I choose, live in a bubble, as clear or opaque as I want it to be.

But not this week.

This week, this Holy Week, I am thrust into the crowds. Crowds that welcome, then condemn. I must encounter the questioning, the faithful, the confused and the fearful. I lurk with the sinners and the saints. I hear the questions, the answers and the silence.

I can’t shut out the false accusations, the betrayals, and the blood. I can’t be selective, I can’t choose my own adventure, I can’t pick and choose what I think is right for me according to my own style, personality type, preferences or priorities.

This week, I am with Jesus.

https://t.co/51FFqFvzBd

[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

6 for 10.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Hollywood vs. freedom? Not always.

Here are 10 movies that (intentionally or not) deliver strong libertarian messages—about state overreach, personal freedom, and bottom-up resilience.

Save this thread for your next movie night 🧵

[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

@CFAPeachBowl @ASUFootball @TexasFootball @coachjpblack

[Museum of the American Revolution @AmRevMuseum]

"The oldest people now living in this Country do not remember so hard a Winter as the one we are now emerging from." — George Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette, March 1780

#OnThisDay in 1779, Gen. George Washington's troops began their winter encampment in Morristown, N.J.

[Mount Vernon @MountVernon]

#OnThisDay in 1782, preliminary articles of peace that recognized American independence were signed between Great Britain and the United States.

In total, there were ten articles signed by three U.S. representatives, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and John Adams, and one British representative, David Hartley.

The Treaty of Paris that formally ended the American Revolution was signed on September 3, 1783.

[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

@sage_stage Exit reflections and post-teaching reflections.

[Joe Giles @gilesjoseph]

@baseballcrank Someone surely should borrow it for awhile.