Another
benefit of private property, not so clearly economic, is that it
diffuses power. When one entity, such as the government, owns all
property, individuals have little protection from the will of the
government.--Boaz
"The Jacobean playwright Thomas Middleton invented the concept of ‘white people’ on 29 October 1613, the date that his play The Triumphs of Truth was first performed. The phrase was first uttered by the character of an African king who looks out upon an English audience and declares: ‘I see amazement set upon the faces/Of these white people, wond’rings and strange gazes.’ As far as I, and others, have been able to tell, Middleton’s play is the earliest printed example of a European author referring to fellow Europeans as ‘white people’."
This is from an article by Ed Simon which also contains this little nugget: "English commoner John Rolfe of Jamestown in Virginia took as his bride an Algonquin princess named Matoaka, whom we call Pocahontas. The literary critic Christopher Hodgkins reports that King James I was ‘at first perturbed when he learned of the marriage’. But this was not out of fear of miscegenation: James’s reluctance, Hodgkins explained, was because ‘Rolfe, a commoner, had without his sovereign’s permission wed the daughter of a foreign prince.’ King James was not worried about the pollution of Rolfe’s line; he was worried about the pollution of Matoaka’s."
National significance abhors a vacuum.
Who is...Major John Andre?
Some things I came across about Gandhi:
During his stay in South Africa, Gandhi routinely expressed “disdain for Africans,” says S. Anand, founder of Navayana, the publisher of the book titled “The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire.”
According to the book, Gandhi described black Africans as “savage,” “raw” and living a life of “indolence and nakedness,” and he campaigned relentlessly to prove to the British rulers that the Indian community in South Africa was superior to native black Africans. The book combs through Gandhi’s own writings during the period and government archives and paints a portrait that is at variance with how the world regards him today.
In response to the White League’s agitation against Indian immigration and the proposed importation of Chinese labour, Gandhi wrote in 1903: “We believe also that the white race in South Africa should be the predominating race.”
"Gandhi before India", By Ramachandra Guha, notes the relative lack of attention paid Gandhi’s racial blind spot: the fact that this campaigner for “non-white” British subjects’ rights had nothing to say about the absolute lack of rights of native Africans in colonial southern Africa. This leader who would set an important political example for a number of African and African-origin leaders, including Martin Luther King, Kenneth Kaunda and Nelson Mandela, did not himself, while in Africa, regard Africans as deserving of the same political rights as other oppressed people.
So, should Gandhi's writings and influence be purged?
Kim's calling Trump a "dotard" was very reassuring. It implied some research and effort at precision. And it was educational; apparently it stimulated a lot of searches for definitions on the internet.
Imagine a world where Kim, Trump, Maduro, Putin and Castro are world leaders with significant influence on their own countries and the world. Indeed the very survival of the species. And imagine a world where billions of people live in nations which have, as a basic political or economic or religious philosophy, the homicidal hatred of their neighbors.
Puerto Rico had, before the storm, $123 Billion--BILLION--in debt they can not finance. What will happen now that the storm has come and gone?
In the frenzy to tear down statues, Benedict Arnold has been suggested as the prototypical traitor who has no statues while the Confederates, though bigoted and supremacist, do.
In a world that is moving away from binary choices, this is at least curious. The gender world has gone analog, why is there so little leeway elsewhere?
AAAaaaaaannnnnndddddd.....a graph:
"The Jacobean playwright Thomas Middleton invented the concept of ‘white people’ on 29 October 1613, the date that his play The Triumphs of Truth was first performed. The phrase was first uttered by the character of an African king who looks out upon an English audience and declares: ‘I see amazement set upon the faces/Of these white people, wond’rings and strange gazes.’ As far as I, and others, have been able to tell, Middleton’s play is the earliest printed example of a European author referring to fellow Europeans as ‘white people’."
This is from an article by Ed Simon which also contains this little nugget: "English commoner John Rolfe of Jamestown in Virginia took as his bride an Algonquin princess named Matoaka, whom we call Pocahontas. The literary critic Christopher Hodgkins reports that King James I was ‘at first perturbed when he learned of the marriage’. But this was not out of fear of miscegenation: James’s reluctance, Hodgkins explained, was because ‘Rolfe, a commoner, had without his sovereign’s permission wed the daughter of a foreign prince.’ King James was not worried about the pollution of Rolfe’s line; he was worried about the pollution of Matoaka’s."
Total unfunded liabilities in state and local pensions have roughly quintupled in the last decade.
On this day in 1973, Billie
Jean King, 29, beat Bobby Riggs, 55, in a tennis match publicity stunt.
One needs to know only that the stunt is now the subject of a movie. At
this trajectory it will soon be a national holiday and, eventually, a
holy day of obligation.National significance abhors a vacuum.
Who is...Major John Andre?
Five Wheaton
College football players face felony charges after being accused of a
2016 hazing incident in which a freshman teammate was restrained with
duct tape, beaten and left half-naked with two torn shoulders on a
baseball field.
Some things I came across about Gandhi:
During his stay in South Africa, Gandhi routinely expressed “disdain for Africans,” says S. Anand, founder of Navayana, the publisher of the book titled “The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire.”
According to the book, Gandhi described black Africans as “savage,” “raw” and living a life of “indolence and nakedness,” and he campaigned relentlessly to prove to the British rulers that the Indian community in South Africa was superior to native black Africans. The book combs through Gandhi’s own writings during the period and government archives and paints a portrait that is at variance with how the world regards him today.
In response to the White League’s agitation against Indian immigration and the proposed importation of Chinese labour, Gandhi wrote in 1903: “We believe also that the white race in South Africa should be the predominating race.”
"Gandhi before India", By Ramachandra Guha, notes the relative lack of attention paid Gandhi’s racial blind spot: the fact that this campaigner for “non-white” British subjects’ rights had nothing to say about the absolute lack of rights of native Africans in colonial southern Africa. This leader who would set an important political example for a number of African and African-origin leaders, including Martin Luther King, Kenneth Kaunda and Nelson Mandela, did not himself, while in Africa, regard Africans as deserving of the same political rights as other oppressed people.
So, should Gandhi's writings and influence be purged?
De
Tocqueville, who transited the Ohio River in the 1830s, observed that
on the free bank, farms and towns appeared prosperous and well kept,
while the opposite was true on the Kentucky side of the River. He
attributed this to the fact that in a free society labor was valued and
respected, while the opposite was true in a society in which an entire
class of people was confined to labor and deprived of the right of
ownership of themselves or anything else.--J Burt
In
1780, during the American Revolution, American General Benedict Arnold
met with British Major John Andre to discuss handing over West Point to
the British, in return for the promise of a large sum of money and a
high position in the British army. In the frenzy to tear down statues,
Arnold has been suggested as the prototypical traitor who has no statues
while the Confederates have, through bigoted and supremacist thinking,
do.
In a world that is moving away from binary choices, this is at least curious.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/07/cab-thoughts-72013.html
Many people are really upset over Trump's UN speech. I am a bit uncertain why. They are unhappy about his "Rocket Man" line as unpresidential. But Trump is indeed presidential, as much so as Kennedy or Johnson or Bush who were no less mistaken or dangerous than Trump (see Cuban Crisis, Vietnam War and Iraq), only smoother and occasionally more sincere in their errors. How should we view the North Korean leader? Does he deserve the charade of respect we give guys like Putin and Assad? Look at what has happened to Venezuela, one of the richest countries in the world. All of these so-called leaders are a threat to us and a growing number of them are nuclear-ly armed. What the Trump presidency has done is reduced the role of leaders to the low level they deserve; we should think of them all as Trumps and Assads, not as Churchills and Lincolns. Churchill and Lincoln are the outliers here.
And, on the adventure front, a former head teacher who went missing while trying to kayak the length of the Amazon River on her own has been confirmed dead. A teenager and two men have been arrested in connection with her murder and four other suspects are being sought. Emma Kelty, 43, from Taunton, Somerset, disappeared last week along a lawless stretch of river known for drug smuggling and pirate attacks, after ignoring advice not to attempt the journey without an armed escort. Her body has not been found.
In a world that is moving away from binary choices, this is at least curious.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/07/cab-thoughts-72013.html
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Many people are really upset over Trump's UN speech. I am a bit uncertain why. They are unhappy about his "Rocket Man" line as unpresidential. But Trump is indeed presidential, as much so as Kennedy or Johnson or Bush who were no less mistaken or dangerous than Trump (see Cuban Crisis, Vietnam War and Iraq), only smoother and occasionally more sincere in their errors. How should we view the North Korean leader? Does he deserve the charade of respect we give guys like Putin and Assad? Look at what has happened to Venezuela, one of the richest countries in the world. All of these so-called leaders are a threat to us and a growing number of them are nuclear-ly armed. What the Trump presidency has done is reduced the role of leaders to the low level they deserve; we should think of them all as Trumps and Assads, not as Churchills and Lincolns. Churchill and Lincoln are the outliers here.
And, on the adventure front, a former head teacher who went missing while trying to kayak the length of the Amazon River on her own has been confirmed dead. A teenager and two men have been arrested in connection with her murder and four other suspects are being sought. Emma Kelty, 43, from Taunton, Somerset, disappeared last week along a lawless stretch of river known for drug smuggling and pirate attacks, after ignoring advice not to attempt the journey without an armed escort. Her body has not been found.
According
to Newsweek (9/20, Firger), “a report published...by the World Health
Organization (WHO) suggests the world may soon run out of effective
antibiotics.” Newsweek, “According to the researchers, most new drug
compounds scientists are busy developing are based on antibiotics that
already exist on the market.” This is problematic, as “many of these
drugs are less effective because the bacteria is slowly becoming
resistant to them.”
Less
than 24 hours after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake pummeled Mexico City,
another tremor has occurred off the east coast of Japan.
The
6.1-magnitude quake struck roughly 175 miles east of the shuttered
Fukushima nuclear plant at roughly 2:30 a.m. local time, according to
the US Geological Survey. Its hypocenter — the underwater locus of the
quake — happened at a depth of about 6 miles.
Depending
on how they are measured or defined, there are 1.5 million entities
that qualify as tax-exempt organizations in the United States.
According
to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than ten percent of
the U.S. workforce is employed by nonprofit organizations of one sort or
another. Twenty five percent of the adult population volunteers for
those organizations. Then there's the money: in 2016, charitable giving
in the United States continued to grow, inching closer to $400 billion.
Of
the 1.5 million nonprofit entities in the United State, only about
seven percent are private foundations. Those seven percent, however,
accounted for about fifteen percent (or nearly $60 billion) of
charitable giving in 2016, and, if one believes that the philanthropic
distribution of funds is an exercise of power, this means private
foundations are the most powerful institutions in terms of charitable
giving. (Note that individual giving still dwarfs all other kinds of
giving combined.)
Kim's calling Trump a "dotard" was very reassuring. It implied some research and effort at precision. And it was educational; apparently it stimulated a lot of searches for definitions on the internet.
Imagine a world where Kim, Trump, Maduro, Putin and Castro are world leaders with significant influence on their own countries and the world. Indeed the very survival of the species. And imagine a world where billions of people live in nations which have, as a basic political or economic or religious philosophy, the homicidal hatred of their neighbors.
Puerto Rico had, before the storm, $123 Billion--BILLION--in debt they can not finance. What will happen now that the storm has come and gone?
In the frenzy to tear down statues, Benedict Arnold has been suggested as the prototypical traitor who has no statues while the Confederates, though bigoted and supremacist, do.
In a world that is moving away from binary choices, this is at least curious. The gender world has gone analog, why is there so little leeway elsewhere?
AAAaaaaaannnnnndddddd.....a graph:
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