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Mar. 30th, 2012
Quote of the Day
Mar. 30th, 2012 08:00 amDid Romney actually mock John Kerry for having a big house, when Romney's new proposed one in San Diego has elevators for the cars?
-- Sully's Dish
I guess Mitt was, in actuality, envious, and had to do something about it.
I kept the quote because I had never heard of an elevator for cars, and the idea tickled me.
-- Sully's Dish
I guess Mitt was, in actuality, envious, and had to do something about it.
I kept the quote because I had never heard of an elevator for cars, and the idea tickled me.
Quote of the Day
Mar. 30th, 2012 08:00 amDid Romney actually mock John Kerry for having a big house, when Romney's new proposed one in San Diego has elevators for the cars?
-- Sully's Dish
I guess Mitt was, in actuality, envious, and had to do something about it.
I kept the quote because I had never heard of an elevator for cars, and the idea tickled me.
-- Sully's Dish
I guess Mitt was, in actuality, envious, and had to do something about it.
I kept the quote because I had never heard of an elevator for cars, and the idea tickled me.
Sylvia seems to be struggling a little over some guilty feelings about leaving Bob lonely and horny.
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I have a lot to give someone, someday. But I must not be too Christian. I can only end up with one, and I must leave many lonely by the wayside. So that is all for now. Perhaps someday someone will leave me by the wayside. And that will be poetic justice.
-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals, 1950
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Oh, she will suffer dearly in this battle between the sexes, committing to a husband who had to have more than one little lady in his bed. I believe that Sylvia should have taken her willingness not to be too Christian a little further than she did. She had enough love for more than one.
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I have a lot to give someone, someday. But I must not be too Christian. I can only end up with one, and I must leave many lonely by the wayside. So that is all for now. Perhaps someday someone will leave me by the wayside. And that will be poetic justice.
-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals, 1950
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Oh, she will suffer dearly in this battle between the sexes, committing to a husband who had to have more than one little lady in his bed. I believe that Sylvia should have taken her willingness not to be too Christian a little further than she did. She had enough love for more than one.
Sylvia seems to be struggling a little over some guilty feelings about leaving Bob lonely and horny.
_ _ _
I have a lot to give someone, someday. But I must not be too Christian. I can only end up with one, and I must leave many lonely by the wayside. So that is all for now. Perhaps someday someone will leave me by the wayside. And that will be poetic justice.
-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals, 1950
_ _ _
Oh, she will suffer dearly in this battle between the sexes, committing to a husband who had to have more than one little lady in his bed. I believe that Sylvia should have taken her willingness not to be too Christian a little further than she did. She had enough love for more than one.
_ _ _
I have a lot to give someone, someday. But I must not be too Christian. I can only end up with one, and I must leave many lonely by the wayside. So that is all for now. Perhaps someday someone will leave me by the wayside. And that will be poetic justice.
-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals, 1950
_ _ _
Oh, she will suffer dearly in this battle between the sexes, committing to a husband who had to have more than one little lady in his bed. I believe that Sylvia should have taken her willingness not to be too Christian a little further than she did. She had enough love for more than one.
Air Jordan
Mar. 30th, 2012 12:00 pm
Back in the day! The game goes on, but it just really isn't the same, is it?
Air Jordan
Mar. 30th, 2012 12:00 pmBack in the day! The game goes on, but it just really isn't the same, is it?
On the Right-Wing
Mar. 30th, 2012 02:00 pm“Satire ... has historically been the weapon of powerless people aimed at the powerful. When you use satire against powerless people ... it is like kicking a cripple.”
-- Molly Ivins
In a word, it is fascism.
Krugman, considering the abysmal prospect for universal health care, got to missing Molly and called up this vintage quote. She was referring, in particular, to Rush Limbaugh, but it is a good general observation.
-- Molly Ivins
In a word, it is fascism.
Krugman, considering the abysmal prospect for universal health care, got to missing Molly and called up this vintage quote. She was referring, in particular, to Rush Limbaugh, but it is a good general observation.
On the Right-Wing
Mar. 30th, 2012 02:00 pm“Satire ... has historically been the weapon of powerless people aimed at the powerful. When you use satire against powerless people ... it is like kicking a cripple.”
-- Molly Ivins
In a word, it is fascism.
Krugman, considering the abysmal prospect for universal health care, got to missing Molly and called up this vintage quote. She was referring, in particular, to Rush Limbaugh, but it is a good general observation.
-- Molly Ivins
In a word, it is fascism.
Krugman, considering the abysmal prospect for universal health care, got to missing Molly and called up this vintage quote. She was referring, in particular, to Rush Limbaugh, but it is a good general observation.
Harry Crews
Mar. 30th, 2012 04:00 pm“If you’re gonna write, for God in heaven’s sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham, all the excuses, all the lies that you’ve been told.”
-- Author and playwright Harry Crews, who died yesterday at 76
I do not recall ever hearing about him.
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Harry Crews, whose novels out-Gothic Southern Gothic by conjuring a world of hard-drinking, punch-throwing, snake-oil-selling characters whose physical, mental, social and sexual deviations render them somehow entirely normal and eminently sympathetic, died on Wednesday at his home in Gainesville, Fla. He was 76. [...]
A Georgia-born Rabelais, Mr. Crews was renowned for darkly comic, bitingly satirical, grotesquely populated and almost preternaturally violent novels.
Though his books captivated many reviewers, they were not the stuff of best-seller lists, in part because they bewildered some readers and repelled others. But they attracted a cadre of fans so fiercely devoted that the phrase “cult following” seems inadequate to describe their ardor.
-- Margalit Fox at The New York Times
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If they put out "Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader" in an affordable Kindle edition, I would be tempted to get it.
-- Author and playwright Harry Crews, who died yesterday at 76
I do not recall ever hearing about him.
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Harry Crews, whose novels out-Gothic Southern Gothic by conjuring a world of hard-drinking, punch-throwing, snake-oil-selling characters whose physical, mental, social and sexual deviations render them somehow entirely normal and eminently sympathetic, died on Wednesday at his home in Gainesville, Fla. He was 76. [...]
A Georgia-born Rabelais, Mr. Crews was renowned for darkly comic, bitingly satirical, grotesquely populated and almost preternaturally violent novels.
Though his books captivated many reviewers, they were not the stuff of best-seller lists, in part because they bewildered some readers and repelled others. But they attracted a cadre of fans so fiercely devoted that the phrase “cult following” seems inadequate to describe their ardor.
-- Margalit Fox at The New York Times
_ _ _
If they put out "Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader" in an affordable Kindle edition, I would be tempted to get it.
Harry Crews
Mar. 30th, 2012 04:00 pm“If you’re gonna write, for God in heaven’s sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham, all the excuses, all the lies that you’ve been told.”
-- Author and playwright Harry Crews, who died yesterday at 76
I do not recall ever hearing about him.
_ _ _
Harry Crews, whose novels out-Gothic Southern Gothic by conjuring a world of hard-drinking, punch-throwing, snake-oil-selling characters whose physical, mental, social and sexual deviations render them somehow entirely normal and eminently sympathetic, died on Wednesday at his home in Gainesville, Fla. He was 76. [...]
A Georgia-born Rabelais, Mr. Crews was renowned for darkly comic, bitingly satirical, grotesquely populated and almost preternaturally violent novels.
Though his books captivated many reviewers, they were not the stuff of best-seller lists, in part because they bewildered some readers and repelled others. But they attracted a cadre of fans so fiercely devoted that the phrase “cult following” seems inadequate to describe their ardor.
-- Margalit Fox at The New York Times
_ _ _
If they put out "Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader" in an affordable Kindle edition, I would be tempted to get it.
-- Author and playwright Harry Crews, who died yesterday at 76
I do not recall ever hearing about him.
_ _ _
Harry Crews, whose novels out-Gothic Southern Gothic by conjuring a world of hard-drinking, punch-throwing, snake-oil-selling characters whose physical, mental, social and sexual deviations render them somehow entirely normal and eminently sympathetic, died on Wednesday at his home in Gainesville, Fla. He was 76. [...]
A Georgia-born Rabelais, Mr. Crews was renowned for darkly comic, bitingly satirical, grotesquely populated and almost preternaturally violent novels.
Though his books captivated many reviewers, they were not the stuff of best-seller lists, in part because they bewildered some readers and repelled others. But they attracted a cadre of fans so fiercely devoted that the phrase “cult following” seems inadequate to describe their ardor.
-- Margalit Fox at The New York Times
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If they put out "Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader" in an affordable Kindle edition, I would be tempted to get it.
Part five from the preface to the Memoirs.
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. But on the score of fools it is a very different matter.
I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and so self-conceited that they challenge wit. We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised, for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
-- Casanova, The Memoirs
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Casanova also makes plain that he distinguished the fools from the stupid, as the latter only suffer from a want of education, while the former carry a serious defect of character, as he sees it.
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. But on the score of fools it is a very different matter.
I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and so self-conceited that they challenge wit. We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised, for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
-- Casanova, The Memoirs
_ _ _
Casanova also makes plain that he distinguished the fools from the stupid, as the latter only suffer from a want of education, while the former carry a serious defect of character, as he sees it.
Part five from the preface to the Memoirs.
_ _ _
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. But on the score of fools it is a very different matter.
I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and so self-conceited that they challenge wit. We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised, for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
-- Casanova, The Memoirs
_ _ _
Casanova also makes plain that he distinguished the fools from the stupid, as the latter only suffer from a want of education, while the former carry a serious defect of character, as he sees it.
_ _ _
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. But on the score of fools it is a very different matter.
I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and so self-conceited that they challenge wit. We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised, for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
-- Casanova, The Memoirs
_ _ _
Casanova also makes plain that he distinguished the fools from the stupid, as the latter only suffer from a want of education, while the former carry a serious defect of character, as he sees it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Mar. 30th, 2012 09:00 pmA little Machiavelli.
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Niccolo Machiavelli shocked his contemporaries, and can still shock us, with his easy acceptance of the role of violence and cruelty in worldly success. At one point in his best-known work, The Prince, he argues casually that Fortune should be raped: "Fortune is female and if you want to stay on top of her you have to slap and thrust … she's more likely to yield that way."
It's a horrible picture that manages to upset us in a way that the book's central theme upset its first readers: what if the Christian idea that politics must be subject to justice was wrong? What if might is actually right?
[...]
Instinctively, we want morality to show us a world where these choices don't have to be made. But the challenge of Machiavelli, for Christians and atheists alike, is that he confronts us with a terrible argument: we cannot do good without power but we cannot gain power, nor keep it, without doing evil.
-- Nick Spencer at The Guardian
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And why bother doing good at all, save for what is good for oneself?
_ _ _
Niccolo Machiavelli shocked his contemporaries, and can still shock us, with his easy acceptance of the role of violence and cruelty in worldly success. At one point in his best-known work, The Prince, he argues casually that Fortune should be raped: "Fortune is female and if you want to stay on top of her you have to slap and thrust … she's more likely to yield that way."
It's a horrible picture that manages to upset us in a way that the book's central theme upset its first readers: what if the Christian idea that politics must be subject to justice was wrong? What if might is actually right?
[...]
Instinctively, we want morality to show us a world where these choices don't have to be made. But the challenge of Machiavelli, for Christians and atheists alike, is that he confronts us with a terrible argument: we cannot do good without power but we cannot gain power, nor keep it, without doing evil.
-- Nick Spencer at The Guardian
_ _ _
And why bother doing good at all, save for what is good for oneself?
Niccolo Machiavelli
Mar. 30th, 2012 09:00 pmA little Machiavelli.
_ _ _
Niccolo Machiavelli shocked his contemporaries, and can still shock us, with his easy acceptance of the role of violence and cruelty in worldly success. At one point in his best-known work, The Prince, he argues casually that Fortune should be raped: "Fortune is female and if you want to stay on top of her you have to slap and thrust … she's more likely to yield that way."
It's a horrible picture that manages to upset us in a way that the book's central theme upset its first readers: what if the Christian idea that politics must be subject to justice was wrong? What if might is actually right?
[...]
Instinctively, we want morality to show us a world where these choices don't have to be made. But the challenge of Machiavelli, for Christians and atheists alike, is that he confronts us with a terrible argument: we cannot do good without power but we cannot gain power, nor keep it, without doing evil.
-- Nick Spencer at The Guardian
_ _ _
And why bother doing good at all, save for what is good for oneself?
_ _ _
Niccolo Machiavelli shocked his contemporaries, and can still shock us, with his easy acceptance of the role of violence and cruelty in worldly success. At one point in his best-known work, The Prince, he argues casually that Fortune should be raped: "Fortune is female and if you want to stay on top of her you have to slap and thrust … she's more likely to yield that way."
It's a horrible picture that manages to upset us in a way that the book's central theme upset its first readers: what if the Christian idea that politics must be subject to justice was wrong? What if might is actually right?
[...]
Instinctively, we want morality to show us a world where these choices don't have to be made. But the challenge of Machiavelli, for Christians and atheists alike, is that he confronts us with a terrible argument: we cannot do good without power but we cannot gain power, nor keep it, without doing evil.
-- Nick Spencer at The Guardian
_ _ _
And why bother doing good at all, save for what is good for oneself?