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Slight hangover after office party, but for some reason, this is keeping up my
spirits:
Topic
Miscellaneous
A collection of 3800 issues
Friday
Kingsley Amis shares a little banal insight into the artistic life: "[L]et me
just observe in passing that the reason why so many professional artists drink a
lot is not necessarily very much to do with the artistic temperament, etc. It is
simply that they can afford to,
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I've gotten some email about yesterday's post. Let me clarify: Based on
information from the MSM (which is scanty and undoubtedly incorrect and
misleading), I have no sympathies for the position of the Ferguson protesters
(to the extent they're protesting the Michael Brown shooting)
Thursday
I tried Mike Duncan's new podcast, "Revolutions
[http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/]," but I had a hard time "getting into"
them. I think he was simply jamming too many facts and names into them, but he's
doing a great job with the current
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The dude was, what, selling loose cigarettes? For that, he was confronted by a
team of cops, put in a chokehold, and killed even after pleading "I can't
breathe"?
I had little tolerance for the Michael Brown protesters, but my sympathies are
with the black man
GKC Wednesday
Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine
[http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible
for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a
sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson
sent me a file full
Monday
Miscellaneous Rambling
Another long Thanksgiving weekend goes in the record books. This one might go
down as one of my heaviest-drinking campaigns. On Wednesday, I drank about a
dozen vodka-tonics, though I never felt very drunk and I woke up with a
short-lived hangover. A testament to the pureness of
Sunday
A Random Passage
"Society desperately needs enclaves like monasteries and universities wherein
men and women have . . . leisure. But we should never forget that the primary
place of leisure and of the knowledge of the higher order of things begins and
ends almost always in our homes." James Schall,
Kontent from the Kindle
Kontent from the Kindle
I knew Hollywood had a heavy Jewish influence, but I didn't realize it was
pretty much entirely Jewish, albeit of the type who assimilated. A few passages
from Thaddeus Russell's Renegade History:
Emanuel Goldenberg became Edward G. Robinson, Betty Perske became Lauren
Stoic Week 2014
Going on now.
Link [https://philosophynow.org/issues/105/News_November_December_2014]