It's not the courage of teenagers which makes the most impression; it is the language of attorney's:
"The only reason the School Board wants the club banned is because the name, Gay-Straight Alliance, violates the Board's abstinence-only policy."
Confessing to dying newspapermen about writing angry letters sparked discussion in the face of multi-media mosaics at the 50th Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival.
Bolano's concurrent fleas are "chinculaes, applying to a certain class of traveler, adventurers of the mind, those who can't keep still mentally, or "a person who doesn't pretend to reconcile the irreconcilable."
Spangler's decision-making model prefers individualists who are "concerned with rights and duties implying a duty not to harm or help."
Bolano affirms: "neither believed in a hybrid form of socialism - public happiness - they believed in the possibility of self-realization."
For a situationalist drawing universalist conclusions; a Summer docent on a Georgian plantation is drawn, hopeless, to slave narratives.
Lying at the bottom of the in-box for years is "A One-Day Course by Edward Tufte, Presenting Data and Information," depicting a map by Charles Joseph Minard portraying losses by Napoleon's army in the Russian campaign of 1812 incorporating six variables: size of the army, location on a two-dimensional surface, direction of the army's movement, and temperature on various dates during the retreat."
Mysterious reappearences of such honesty assure the story at least stays neutral.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Inherent
The transformation of twelve ordinary people into marathon runners on NOVA this week implies inherent heroism.
Skiing, which takes advantage of harsh weather, otherwise disadvantageous to so many others, implies inherent selfishness.
A Marine in the local rag states, "for me, the physical excitement isn't the attraction - it's the opportunity to make a difference."
How much can a willingness to commit institutional acts of violence also contain the inherent opportunity to make a difference?
In most Friend Bob-exchanges something is left off the table lest this participant become a persistent bore. Our last dance omits that even if it's not intended, the existence of an Anglican break-away implies homophobia, just as the existence of a continuing church, implies the opposite, even if none, or only one, of its members desires full inclusion for g,l,b,t persons.
Shopsin says, "you don't do the right thing because you're a great person, you do the right thing because you don't have any f'ing choice," though Roberto Bolano warns, "virtue, once recognized in a flash, has no shine and makes its home in a dark cave amid cave dwellers, some dangerous indeed."
Along these lines, Bolano raises, "the stamp of ultraconcrete literature, a nonspeculative literature free of ideas, assertions, denials, doubts, free of any intent to serve as a guide, neither pro nor con, just an eye seeking out the tangible elements, not judging them but simply displaying them coldly, archeology of the facsimile, and, by the same token, of the photocopier."
To write any other than a Book of Lists is to affirm Bolano.
When Amer Ghada (Bold & the Brave 22) asks Toba Khedon what transformed him into this creature - this Purge - he responds, "I took philosophy to its ultimate end. To separate the spirit from the selfish desires of the flesh."
In his review of The Future of Liberalism, Thane Rosenbaum contends, Alan Wolfe contends, a "true liberal is pragmatic, sober, skeptical and emotionally detached," while, "both the political right and far left, in contrast, are romantic at heart rushing into military adventures and domestic crusades."
--underscoring a conversation between the Spotsyltuckian and a Yankee, yesterday, as to why the South scored initial victories but could not sustain in the long run.
Wolfe ascribes the Civil War "as an example of these different temperaments: the liberal North was frugal, business-like, impersonal, rational, while the conservative South was impetuous, chivalric, glory-seeking, evangelical, romantic."
It must never be forgotten the rise of the Nazi's was assured by Stalin's actions to suppress moderate German Social Democrats whom he considered the true enemy.
In 1797, George Washington wrote to Rufus King, "having taken my seat in the shade of my vine and fig tree, I shall endeavor to view things in the calm lights of mild philosophy," remembering at this same time, Washington incorporated a radical emancipation of his slaves into his will.
Do we agree with Toba Khedon that the creation of a beautiful life requires the purge of all disruptive elements?
No, redemption arrives instead, inherent, in small waves: the 92-year old self-described 'old boot' who advised the Golden Rule as she awaited in her wheel chair, helpless, past any physical capability to achieve it beyond her transcendence; a 100-year old local farmer riding his tractor one more Spring planting season; the Colonial Beach Drifters achieving state finals attributing their success to the team manager with cerebral palsy.
An editor scoffed the Spotsyltuckian pieces resemble lists of quotes.
Take these pieces, then, or leave them, since it isn't possible to write or create anything which does not carry inflated inherent ego and implied consequences though lists may come as close as possible.
Skiing, which takes advantage of harsh weather, otherwise disadvantageous to so many others, implies inherent selfishness.
A Marine in the local rag states, "for me, the physical excitement isn't the attraction - it's the opportunity to make a difference."
How much can a willingness to commit institutional acts of violence also contain the inherent opportunity to make a difference?
In most Friend Bob-exchanges something is left off the table lest this participant become a persistent bore. Our last dance omits that even if it's not intended, the existence of an Anglican break-away implies homophobia, just as the existence of a continuing church, implies the opposite, even if none, or only one, of its members desires full inclusion for g,l,b,t persons.
Shopsin says, "you don't do the right thing because you're a great person, you do the right thing because you don't have any f'ing choice," though Roberto Bolano warns, "virtue, once recognized in a flash, has no shine and makes its home in a dark cave amid cave dwellers, some dangerous indeed."
Along these lines, Bolano raises, "the stamp of ultraconcrete literature, a nonspeculative literature free of ideas, assertions, denials, doubts, free of any intent to serve as a guide, neither pro nor con, just an eye seeking out the tangible elements, not judging them but simply displaying them coldly, archeology of the facsimile, and, by the same token, of the photocopier."
To write any other than a Book of Lists is to affirm Bolano.
When Amer Ghada (Bold & the Brave 22) asks Toba Khedon what transformed him into this creature - this Purge - he responds, "I took philosophy to its ultimate end. To separate the spirit from the selfish desires of the flesh."
In his review of The Future of Liberalism, Thane Rosenbaum contends, Alan Wolfe contends, a "true liberal is pragmatic, sober, skeptical and emotionally detached," while, "both the political right and far left, in contrast, are romantic at heart rushing into military adventures and domestic crusades."
--underscoring a conversation between the Spotsyltuckian and a Yankee, yesterday, as to why the South scored initial victories but could not sustain in the long run.
Wolfe ascribes the Civil War "as an example of these different temperaments: the liberal North was frugal, business-like, impersonal, rational, while the conservative South was impetuous, chivalric, glory-seeking, evangelical, romantic."
It must never be forgotten the rise of the Nazi's was assured by Stalin's actions to suppress moderate German Social Democrats whom he considered the true enemy.
In 1797, George Washington wrote to Rufus King, "having taken my seat in the shade of my vine and fig tree, I shall endeavor to view things in the calm lights of mild philosophy," remembering at this same time, Washington incorporated a radical emancipation of his slaves into his will.
Do we agree with Toba Khedon that the creation of a beautiful life requires the purge of all disruptive elements?
No, redemption arrives instead, inherent, in small waves: the 92-year old self-described 'old boot' who advised the Golden Rule as she awaited in her wheel chair, helpless, past any physical capability to achieve it beyond her transcendence; a 100-year old local farmer riding his tractor one more Spring planting season; the Colonial Beach Drifters achieving state finals attributing their success to the team manager with cerebral palsy.
An editor scoffed the Spotsyltuckian pieces resemble lists of quotes.
Take these pieces, then, or leave them, since it isn't possible to write or create anything which does not carry inflated inherent ego and implied consequences though lists may come as close as possible.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
She Does Her Crying in Private: Part II
People keep asking what's up post-retirement.
Uncomfortable confessing to volunteerism, the standard reply is, 'working at a hospital.'
--doubling as a PTSD reaction to serving chronics in the way our Lenten guru D-Day says she was once accused of being "eaten up with pride and self-love."
You own your guests via an insider's knowledge of their tragedies.
Larger ramifications are politcal, tempered, at best, per D-Day, who "can look back on the early religious fervor which underlay my radicalism and finally saved me."
Yet another refuge is cirmudgeonism,
--or career enhancement for David Cameron, who upon his son's death, the NY Times reports, found "those insights lent a powerful humanity," to a politician, "who is Eton and Oxford educated and his wife the daughter of a viscount."
--or redemption for Big Brother racist Jade Goody, per the AP, once "the actual posterchild for British boorishness," now determined, "to spend her dying days in the spotlight; her frankness largely winning the media over."
After it becomes known BL fathered a disabled child, and DH lost one, their lunatic rants, or eccentricities, soften.
Can we attribute, then, Jerry Lewis' Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award speech, to a defensive curmudgeonism, or is he just a plain and simple a-hole?
It's possible to land, undefined, larger than yourself, dispensible.
Joseph Ellis maintains George Washington's "Mt. Vernon correspondence allowed him to retain a zone of personal control amidst an increasingly, discordant political world that seemed to defy control altogether -- the last sliver of his private personality never made the trip."
--never making the trip: this, the second lesson of Lent.
Uncomfortable confessing to volunteerism, the standard reply is, 'working at a hospital.'
--doubling as a PTSD reaction to serving chronics in the way our Lenten guru D-Day says she was once accused of being "eaten up with pride and self-love."
You own your guests via an insider's knowledge of their tragedies.
Larger ramifications are politcal, tempered, at best, per D-Day, who "can look back on the early religious fervor which underlay my radicalism and finally saved me."
Yet another refuge is cirmudgeonism,
--or career enhancement for David Cameron, who upon his son's death, the NY Times reports, found "those insights lent a powerful humanity," to a politician, "who is Eton and Oxford educated and his wife the daughter of a viscount."
--or redemption for Big Brother racist Jade Goody, per the AP, once "the actual posterchild for British boorishness," now determined, "to spend her dying days in the spotlight; her frankness largely winning the media over."
After it becomes known BL fathered a disabled child, and DH lost one, their lunatic rants, or eccentricities, soften.
Can we attribute, then, Jerry Lewis' Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award speech, to a defensive curmudgeonism, or is he just a plain and simple a-hole?
It's possible to land, undefined, larger than yourself, dispensible.
Joseph Ellis maintains George Washington's "Mt. Vernon correspondence allowed him to retain a zone of personal control amidst an increasingly, discordant political world that seemed to defy control altogether -- the last sliver of his private personality never made the trip."
--never making the trip: this, the second lesson of Lent.
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