Gerald Celente talks in the clip below of lighting a candle locally made, which calls to my mind three things: 1. Can one light a nonlocal candle? 2. More seriously, Bastiat’s Candlestick makers’ petition, though itself a fun parody, and, 3. More seriously yet, that which other quarters have been talking about for quite a [...]
By that I mean…. Lincoln, Abraham, understanding? He has been so vaunted that to qualify Lincoln as understanding seems surprising to some, I’ll hazard. So, what did Lincoln understand? Simply, that people conspire. Hark! The verb confirmed. We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see [...]
Canary Billie Holiday’s burned voice had as many shadows as lights, a mournful candelabra against a sleek piano, the gardenia her signature under that ruined face. (Now you’re cooking, drummer to bass, magic spoon, magic needle. Take all day if you have to with your mirror and your bracelet of song.) Fact is, the invention [...]
In my last Goodreads micro-review, I stated that “there’s a lengthy excerpt which pertains to literature which I should type in here, but I may save that for a blog entry.” I’ll go for half here and cite the better paragraph, truncated at that: In dealing with the [classical] liberal social philosophy there is a [...]
Although I’ve come to have important doubts about Noam Chomsky’s political work, largely through articles such as Weintraub’s, I am more and more impressed by his scientific work, in particular his comments regarding the inherent creativity and constraints of language use, often humorous – John ate a sandwich. Sandwich a ate John. – and his [...]