Best Places

• Petertupo Island, Panama
• Monterrey Peninsula, CA
• Iona, near Mull
• Stanley Basin, Idaho
• Sidelong Hill
• Coopers Rock, WV
• Beargrass Creek, Jefferson County, KY
• Gratz Park, Lexington, KY
• Mount St Helens
• Georgetown, KY
• New Zealand
• Mediterranean Cruise
• Venice
• Prague
• Israel (Elat) after 6-Day War
• Tel Aviv
• Haifa
• Lockegee, KY
• Calcutta
• Bodies of Water
• Appalachian Mountains
• Costa Rica
• Lenox, MA
• NYC Opera
• Off Broadway
• Red Rocks, CO

I've been everywhere

https://youtu.be/ov4epAJRPMw

Places Quotes

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Places

Bose

Meeting March 30

For our next meeting, we will be at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library, 9:45am-11:45am, March 30.

Our suggested topic will be chosen from among your suggestions and these 5 recommendations by me:

Best place(s), and why?
Favorite or most rewarding experience, and why?
What is truth?
What is fact?
Are self-driving cars the next big thing?

If you have suggestions, or if you want to add to the lists from prior weeks, please write me -- jimmonomoy@gmail.com.

See our web page at https://reasonockhammencken.blogspot.com/

Susan Sontag

Non-fiction List

• Best American Magazine Writing
• Rensselaer Annual Report
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
• Mountains Beyond Mountains
• The Mismeasure of Man 
• Thich Nhat Han's Works (Being Peace)
• Chet Raymo
• An Almanac for the Soul
• Bill Bryson
• John McPhee
• Krakatoa
• Longitude
• An Introduction to Modern Philosophy
• The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
• Snail Darter
• How to Sit
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (The Divine Milieu)
• Thomas Merton
• Malabar Farm
• A Sand County Almanac
• A History of the First World War
• Joseph Campbell
• The Golden Bough
• Land of the Fire Bird
• A Brief History of Time
• The Mahabharata
• Ramayana
• The Bhagahad Gita
• Clarence Darrow
• S. I. Hayakawa
• Dictionary
• Simon Winchester on Dictionary
• See You at the Top
• 1947
• Quiet: ... 
• This Idea Must Die -- ed. John Brock
• The TED Talks

Meeting March 23

For our next meeting, we will be at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library, 9:45am-11:45am, March 23.

Our suggested topic will be chosen from among your suggestions and these four recommendations by me:

• Most effective non-fiction, and why?
• Best place(s), and why?
• Favorite or most rewarding experience, and why?
• What is truth?

If you have suggestions, or if you want to add to the lists from prior weeks, please write me -- jimmonomoy@gmail.com. See our web page at https://reasonockhammencken.blogspot.com/

TV Show List

• Dragnet -- Just the facts
• All in the Family -- bigotry, generation gap
• Johnny Carson, Tonight Show
• Vietnam (Ken Burns) 
• Laurel and Hardy
• Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins
• Upstairs, Downstairs
• The Raj Quartet -- The Jewel in the Crown
• CBS Sunday Morning -- Charles Kuralt
• Gray's Anatomy -- diversity, ethics, issues
• Law and Order -- moral justice, flawed people
• LA Law
• NYPD Blue
• 60 Minutes
• Cheers
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Lonesome Dove
• Breaking Bad
• Downton Abbey
• Mad Men
• I Love Lucy
• The Wonder Years
• The Big Bang Theory
• The Carol Burnett Show
• Green Acres
• The Rockford Files
• You Are There
• Masterpiece Theatre
• Masterpiece Mystery
• Gun Smoke
• Longmire
• The Sopranos
• Grace and Frankie -- aging
• Better Call Saul
• Lost
• Justified
• 800 Words (Australian)
• Fargo

Albert Camus

Meeting March 16

For our next meeting, we will be at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library, 9:45am-11:45am, March 16.

Our suggested topic will be chosen from among your suggestions and these four recommendations by me:

Favorite TV show of all time, and why?
Most effective non-fiction, and why?
Best place, and why?
Favorite experience, and why?

If you have suggestions, or if you want to add to the lists from prior weeks, please write me -- jimmonomoy@gmail.com.

See our web page at https://reasonockhammencken.blogspot.com/

Best regards
Jim Carigan

MediaBiasChart.com

Source for information:

MediaBiasChart.com

Blog

http://everything-voluntary.com/information-that-matters

Paul Saffo

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Saffo

Confirmation Bias

March 9 Meeting

For our next meeting, we will be at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library, 9:45am-11:45am, March 9.

Our suggested topic will be chosen from among your suggestions and these four recommendations by me:

• Best source for truth in current events, and why?
• Favorite TV show of all time, and why?
• Most effective non-fiction, and why?
• Best place, and why?

I you have suggestions, or if you want to add to either of the lists from prior weeks, please write me -- jimmonomoy@gmail.com.

Movie List

• Doubt
• Notes on a Scandal
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Leviathan
• The Post
• Lady Bird
• Dunkirk
• Darkest Hour
• Gallipoli
• 84 Charing Cross Road
• The Shape of Water
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Forrest Gump
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Amadeus
• Longitude
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Religulous
• Blowup
• Fellini -- Satyricon
• Fantasia
• Margaret Rutherford -- Murder Most Foul
• Lonesome Dove
• The Ox Bow Incident
• Doctor Zhivago
• Zorba the Greek
• Fargo
• Seven Samurai
• The Producers
• Calendar Girls
• Home Alone
• Blazing Saddles
• Little Big Man
• Rabbit-Proof Fence
• Risky Business
• Abbot and Costello
• Laurel and Hardy
• Casablanca
• West Side Story
• The Sound of Music
• Carousel
• Camelot
• My Fair Lady
• What About Bob?
• Educating Rita
• Some Like It Hot
• Dr. Strangelove
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Thelma and Louise
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Cool Hand Luke
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• The English Patient
• The Dish
• The Gods Must Be Crazy
• On the Beach
• The Birds
• Psycho
• The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Jaws
• Testament
• All the King's Men
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• A Town Like Alice
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Strangers on a Train
• High Noon
• Shane
• Gone with the Wind
• The Wizard of Oz
• Alice in Wonderland
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Cinderella
• Sleepless in Seattle
• North by Northwest
• American Graffiti
• M * A * S * H
• Breaker Morant
• Good Morning Vietnam
• The Deer Hunter
• Apocalypse Now
• Run, Lola, Run
• Rain Man
• No Country for Old Men
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Stand by Me
• The Big Clock
• One-Eyed Jacks
• The Godfather 
• 12 Angry Men
• Unforgiven
• Parenthood
• Men in Black
• Gran Torino
• Being John Malkovich

March 2 Meeting

For our next meeting, we will be at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library, 9:45am-11:45am, March 2.

Our suggested topic will be chosen from among your suggestions and these four recommendations by me:

1. Best movie you have seen recently, and why
2. Best source for truth in current events, and why
3. Favorite TV show of all time, and why?
4. Most effective non-fiction, and why?