Eric Scheske
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From Johnson's Dictionary: Myrmidon
myrmidon. Any rude ruffian; so named from the soldiers of Achilles.
(If you're interested in the Trojan War, this word isn't new to you. But it surprised me that it was apparently in currency during the 17th-18th centuries (probably 17th; Johnson refused to use books to
My Favorite South Park Skit
Humor often involves stark juxtaposition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga38oaFfeG8&feature=youtu.be
The juxtaposition between the song's title and the song itself kills me.
Miscellany
England after 1688 and bears in the gay community
Rise of the Moneyed
I'm enjoying volume 4 of Peter Ackroyd's history of England: Revolution: The
History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo
[https://amzn.to/2GJFCCi].
I wanted to
The Ever-Elusive Economic "Third Way"
Man, great weather heading our way.
And I just got a big pile of wood chips dumped in my driveway.
Wood chips might be the magic bullet for the garden. They look nice, they
suppress grass and weeds, they help plants retain moisture and block out
freezing cold, they provide
Proto-Kerouac
D.H. Lawrence, writing in the early 1920s, about the poetry of Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
“The Open Road. The great home of the Soul is the open road. Not heaven, not paradise. Not 'above'. Not even 'within'. The soul is neither 'above' nor '