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No reward for resistance; no assistance, no applause. — Neil Peart, “Lock and Key” For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. — Paul of Tarsus, Epistle to the Romans La merde a...
View ArticleThe Odessa Steps
The early Soviet propaganda movie, The Battleship Potemkin, culminates in a prolonged and shocking sequence of local citizens – men, women and children – gunned down by remorseless Czarist soldiers on...
View ArticleAristos a la Lanterne!
When the rage of downtrodden French peasants, living-on-the-edge city dwellers and frustrated bourgeois towards the ruling nobles and royalty final exploded into a kind of civic wildfire, there was no...
View ArticleCloward Pivening
Once upon a time in the mad 60’s a pair of mad lefty (but I repeat myself) socialist sociologists refined a strategy for bringing about the blessed socialist utopia by overloading and bankrupting the...
View ArticleRapò Sitiyasyon Ayiti
Most problems were not problems long enough to be interesting. — Larry Niven, PROTECTOR Haiti has remained a problem long enough to be interesting. Viewing its situation as that of 1) a prior substrate...
View ArticleWhen Midwesterners Collide—A Challenge to Bill Quick
This is a lengthy response, and an implicit challenge to debate, prompted by Bill Quick’s “If Something Cannot Go On Forever, It Will Stop,” published on Thursday 27 April and duly Instalanched on...
View ArticleMore History Friday – The Murder of a Very Modern Major General
This post was inspired by a terse note next to a picture of the gentleman in question, on a page in one of my reference books – a note that the Confederate commander, one Major General Earl Van Dorn...
View ArticleAlton’s Farm
Wherever I sat, there I might live, and the landscape radiated from me accordingly. What is a house but a sedes, a seat?—better if a country seat. I discovered many a site for a house not likely to be...
View ArticleFahrenheit 451
This report, of a school district eliminating all books published before 2008 from the shelves of school libraries struck me as more-than-usually horrifying, when it comes to stupidities enacted by a...
View ArticleYon Tanpèt Pafè
In the wall mural of global incompetence that is our Crisis Era, Haiti has become the most lurid corner, a hallucinatory labyrinth worthy of Hieronymus Bosch; not so much the canary in the mine as a...
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