I am in here.
Something to think about as the day begins: the concept of the right to question, and when/how it can become a tool of totalitarians. When does the desire to know become the desire to expose? Belmont Club Canetti thought that the real tools of totalitarians were not simple brutality but “the right to question and … Continue reading Questioning: something to think about
I have decided that New York is the place where you eat too much food. I just had a fish-and-chips dinner wherein the piece of codfish I had was bigger than I thought codfishes were. So of course I had dessert, too — an individual Baked Alaska. So of course, I ate it all. Food … Continue reading Food in New York
Just found this, via Indepundit…. Ed Driscoll.com: The Man, In Full: [Tom] Wolfe then launched into variations on some of the quotes he gave England’s Guardian and London Times around election time earlier this month. He told our wannabe-Dieter that “the people in the south aren’t the Religious Right-they’re just religious. And these people are … Continue reading Ed Driscoll.com: The Man, In Full
Chairman Arafat is still dead, according to Debkafile. And people are beginning to notice. Read all, and especially gawk at how fat and ugly Suha Arafat is. You know the palestinians have to be awful if even the French are getting fed up with them! (found this all via Roger L. Simon) DEBKAfile – Paris … Continue reading Weekend update
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