The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong...the truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I'm not too sure."--Mencken
Picnic at Amy and Jeff's. I ate my first ribs ever. Messy but really good. Nice, relaxing time.
Ned has moved into his new place above ground.
Sirhan Sirhan, imprisoned for more than 50 years for the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was hospitalized Friday after being stabbed by a fellow inmate at a San Diego prison.
There is a collection of essays by writers on "Peanuts" coming out. This is part of one, by Hardy: "I may have found something confirming in Schulz’s nihilism—I don’t think that’s too strong a word. I understand he took his Christian faith seriously, and I know people have argued that the suffering in Peanuts is somehow redemptive, but I’m not sure I buy it. What I took away from Schulz is that life is hard. People are difficult at best, unfathomable at worst. Justice is a foreign tongue. Happiness can vaporize in the thin gap between a third and fourth panel, and the best response to all that is to laugh and keep moving, always ready to duck."
HBO host Bill Maher said that he is “glad” billionaire David Koch, a conservative activist, is dead and added that he hoped “the end was painful.” These people are simply too awful to be of any influence.
On September 1, 1972, American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeated Russian Boris Spassky during the World Chess Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Basics at Banquets
The gospel is set at another banquet, a recurring metaphor as heaven as a banquet. It is another "first will be last" gospel with the idea of the basics versus the superfluous in life. Humility is a basic and, if present, colors all of life's achievements and failures. The rush for advancement and recognition is benighted. It has interesting political and economic implications as the primacy of economics and/or position is a distortion of the real nature of man.
The lowest common denominator is the real common denominator.
Picnic at Amy and Jeff's. I ate my first ribs ever. Messy but really good. Nice, relaxing time.
Ned has moved into his new place above ground.
Sirhan Sirhan, imprisoned for more than 50 years for the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was hospitalized Friday after being stabbed by a fellow inmate at a San Diego prison.
There is a collection of essays by writers on "Peanuts" coming out. This is part of one, by Hardy: "I may have found something confirming in Schulz’s nihilism—I don’t think that’s too strong a word. I understand he took his Christian faith seriously, and I know people have argued that the suffering in Peanuts is somehow redemptive, but I’m not sure I buy it. What I took away from Schulz is that life is hard. People are difficult at best, unfathomable at worst. Justice is a foreign tongue. Happiness can vaporize in the thin gap between a third and fourth panel, and the best response to all that is to laugh and keep moving, always ready to duck."
HBO host Bill Maher said that he is “glad” billionaire David Koch, a conservative activist, is dead and added that he hoped “the end was painful.” These people are simply too awful to be of any influence.
On September 1, 1972, American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeated Russian Boris Spassky during the World Chess Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Basics at Banquets
The gospel is set at another banquet, a recurring metaphor as heaven as a banquet. It is another "first will be last" gospel with the idea of the basics versus the superfluous in life. Humility is a basic and, if present, colors all of life's achievements and failures. The rush for advancement and recognition is benighted. It has interesting political and economic implications as the primacy of economics and/or position is a distortion of the real nature of man.
The lowest common denominator is the real common denominator.
TWO SPARROWS
Two sparrows, feeding,
Heard a thrush
Sing to the dawn,
The first said, “Tush!
In all my life
I never heard
A more affected
Singing bird.”
The second said,
“It’s you and me
Who slave to keep
The likes of he.”
“And if we cared,”
Both sparrows said,
“We’d do that singing
On our head.”
The thrush pecked sideways
And was dumb.
“And now,” they screamed,
“He’s pinched our crumb!”
(Humbert Wolfe)
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