Is Kim Kardashian the David Bowie of pornography?--Aleric Phlogiston
Poet laureate Colley Cibber was a well-known but second-rate writer and actor in London, most famous for his adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, in which there were such Cibberisms as "Off with his head -- so much for Buckingham!" Despite his reputation, his was the only version of the play acted in England for over 150 years, so popular that attempts to do Shakespeare's original were booed off the stage.
Poet laureate Colley Cibber was a well-known but second-rate writer and actor in London, most famous for his adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, in which there were such Cibberisms as "Off with his head -- so much for Buckingham!" Despite his reputation, his was the only version of the play acted in England for over 150 years, so popular that attempts to do Shakespeare's original were booed off the stage.
In 1740, writing as Captain Hercules Vinegar, satiric playwright and novelist (and also a lawyer) Henry Fielding summoned poet laureate Colley Cibber to court, charged with the murder of the English language.
Mohamed El-Erian, the former CEO of the Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) and current chief economic adviser to Allianz, predicts within the next three years, the global economy will hit a "T-junction." Policymakers will either watch helplessly as the world sinks into a mire of financial volatility and political collapse, or they'll find a way to unlock the piles of corporate cash sitting on the sidelines, reinvigorating growth.
Mohamed El-Erian, the former CEO of the Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) and current chief economic adviser to Allianz, predicts within the next three years, the global economy will hit a "T-junction." Policymakers will either watch helplessly as the world sinks into a mire of financial volatility and political collapse, or they'll find a way to unlock the piles of corporate cash sitting on the sidelines, reinvigorating growth.
Who is...Nikos Kazantzakis?
"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." These are the last words of Hugh Latimer (Bishop of Worcester). He, with Nicholas Ridley (Bishop of Rochester) and Cranmer were the "Oxford Martyrs," three Protestant churchmen caught up in Bloody Mary's reaction to the Reformation. He and Ridley were burned at the stake with the mercy of a bag of gunpowder around their necks. All three had been arrested by Mary, and imprisoned together at Oxford. Bradbury quotes these words in Fahrenheit 451 and has his hero, Guy Montag, resist all persuasions to recant a belief in books.
Palodar is the name for an apartment/home in which the occupants have turned into a “restaurant.” I say restaurant in quotations because only 12 seats are allowed or else the government considers it a private business/free enterprise. On top of the limited 12 seats, there is a strict menu on what can be served and how. If that is not enough limitations, the government requires only family members to operate/work in the palodar. There are restaurants throughout the country, other than Palodares. But, although they’re cheaper the food is awful. The government restaurant food gave me food poisoning along with many others.--letter from a tourist in Cuba
This O.J. Simpson replay is pretty horrifying. The assessments of this country in the future might well include it as important. Surprising that Simpson hasn't cried post-concussion syndrome.
The federal government traditionally bound the people only through acts of Congress and judgments of the courts. In other words, to constrain liberty, the executive ordinarily had to rely on the other branches of government – it had to persuade the representatives of the people to enact a rule, and it had to persuade independent judges and juries to apply the rule. Nowadays, however, the executive acts against Americans through its own legislation and adjudication. This administrative action, whether legislative or judicial, is known as “administrative law,” and the executive relies on it to constrain Americans in all aspects of their lives, political, economic, social, and personal. Administrative law thereby has transformed American government and society. Although this mode of power is unrecognized by the Constitution, it has become the government’s primary mode of controlling Americans, and it increasingly imposes profound restrictions on their liberty. It therefore is time to reconsider the lawfulness of administrative law.--Philip Hamburger
According to Japan’s Justice Ministry, the country accepted less than 1 percent of refugees in 2015. Out of 7,586 applicants, only 27 were accepted.
One of the problems in analyzing Trump is how self-conflicting he appears. Sort of his own oxymoron. Here is something on the "homeopathic(!)" Trump: Donald Trump is the face of that insalubrious relationship, a lifelong crony capitalist who brags about buying political favors. But his enthusiasts, devoid as they are of a literate politics capable of thinking about all three sides of a triangle at the same time, take a kind of homeopathic view of Trump, believing that they can dispatch a crony capitalist to undo crony capitalism in the same way that New Age healers believe that a little bit of diluted poison chases away similar toxins.--Williamson. The complete article which is unkind to Trump and modern conservatives is here: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430227/donald-trump-supporters-establishment-books
The Central Intelligence Agency three-year “Diversity and Inclusion Strategy” includes a dedicated program to recruit transgender individuals and agency-wide “unconscious bias” training. The plan, released by the CIA’s Diversity and Inclusion Office last week, lays out several goals for “weaving diversity and inclusion throughout the talent cycle.” This is a remarkable barometer as this population historically was the most vulnerable to compromise. The ultimate double agent?
Before the bureaucracy can rule, ownership must lose its significance. (Jasay) One way to strip ownership of its significance is to perpetuate the fallacy that property and law are creations of the state, and that each of us holds our property only by the grace of the state – as if we merely lease it from our kindly and provisioning overlords, in exchange for our obedience and regular tax payments. And to help ensure that we serfs do not start fancying that our property is really ours – fancying that we created it and, therefore, have original title to it – our overlords scold us regularly with a non sequitur, telling each of us, as individual owners of property, that “you didn’t build” individually and from scratch any of the social, legal, or physical institutions that make the creation and security of property possible.
In short, and from another work by Jasay, it’s as if your dog owns your house. (Bordeaux)
Nikos Kazantzakis was born, in Heraklion, Crete. Kazantzakis was a philosopher, a doctor of laws, a politician, a translator of Dante, and a prolific writer in all genres (including a 33,333 line sequel to the Odyssey) but his greatest fame comes from Zorba the Greek, a novel which rejects intellectualism for the simple life.
Tutankhamun died aged 19 in 1324 BC after just nine years on the throne. His final resting place was discovered by another British Egyptologist, Howard Carter, in 1922. Radar scans of the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun in the ancient necropolis of Luxor showed a "90 percent" chance of two hidden chambers, possibly containing organic material, Egypt's antiquities minister said Thursday. Experts had scanned the tomb to find what a British archaeologist believes could be the resting place of Queen Nefertiti, the legendary beauty and wife of Tutankhamun's father whose mummy has never been found.
From the WashPo: "What worries the smartest people on the left is that McConnell will shepherd Garland’s confirmation through during the lame-duck session if Clinton wins, depriving the first woman president of her ability to pick a more progressive alternative. While Garland is 63, which means he has a relatively shorter shelf life on the bench, Hillary could pick someone who is still in her 40s."
So Obama's nominee is not a sincere one, it is politically calculated to embarrass the Rube-publicans and influence the national vote? They have no intention of having this guy chosen? And all the preemptive outrage is just manipulated nonsense? Don't throw me into the briar patch?
Monger: The word monger means "a dealer in or trader of a commodity" or "a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way" and it is frequently used in combination, as in the terms fishmonger, wordmonger and gossipmonger.
Monger: The word monger means "a dealer in or trader of a commodity" or "a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way" and it is frequently used in combination, as in the terms fishmonger, wordmonger and gossipmonger.
Trade is never a zero sum game. If trade were a zero sum game, it would never happen. Two people trade because each expects to gain from the exchange. If I shine your shoes for $5, it’s because you value shiny shoes more than you value $5 and I value $5 more than the time, materials, and effort I expended.--Ikenson
Half of the 800,000 missing-juvenile cases reported each year are runaways. One quarter of missing-children cases are abductions committed by family members, often as a result of custody disputes. Approximately 100 are kidnappings by strangers. Of these, most of the victims are between 12 and 17, 80% are white, and 90% of the kidnappers are men. In more than half the cases, the victims are sexually assaulted.
Every member of President Teddy Roosevelt’s family owned a pair of stilts, including the first lady.
"As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races." That was written by Charles Darwin in Descent of Man. It is a provocative line. I assume that “artificial barrier” is nationalism, or a religious variation thereof. But why does the agent of competition have to be solely individual?
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