July, 2018 archive
Conundrum 0
Yes, it is possible to disapprove of something and delight in it simultaneously.
The Cloning 0
Shaun Mullen has more. A snippet (emphasis in the original):
QOTD 0
Leonard Goldberg, in the voice of Joanna Blalock (the daughter of Sherlock Holmes*):
Greed has no end. It is like a bottomless well that cannot be filled. And at time the wealthiest are the worst offenders.
Goldberg, Leonard, The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes (New York: Minotaur, 2017), p. 252.
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*Purported daughter.
William S. Baring-Gould proved conclusively that Nero Wolfe was the son of Sherlock Holmes, conceived in circumstances incompatible with the story of Joanna Blalock. Nevertheless, Goldberg’s pastiche is still a ripping good yarn.
![John Fulgesang cites Alexander Hamilton: The truth unquestionable is that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. . . . When a man unprincipled in private life[,] desparate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents . . . .despotic in ordinary demeanor--known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty--when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of personality--to join in the cry of danger to liberty--to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion--to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense zealots of the day--it may justly be suspected that is object is to throw things into confusion that he man](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AkTkoVM--HM/W0lyhHnWp7I/AAAAAAABz9g/-E0AVTAFtiYxVl3oX7DGqz1jio1QBCqFwCLcBGAs/s640/y-0.png)
The New Look 0
Aside:
I intended for this post to pop Monday, but bobbled it.
I reset it to appear on Monday morning.
Birds of a Feather 0
Farron points out that the Republican Party is reaping what it sowed.
And it is endangering all of us.
It’s Deja Vu All Over Again 0
A letter to the editor of the Portland Press-Herald points out that we’ve seen this show before.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another person was fondling “cleaning” a firearm and offed yet another child.
Thus passeth another child in NRA Paradise.
Ready, Fire, What Comes Next I Forget 0
Paul Krugman considers Donald Trump’s performance at NATO and dissects the madness behind his method. A snippet:
The institutions Trump is trying to destroy were all created under U.S. leadership in the aftermath of World War II. Those were years of epic statesmanship — the years of the Berlin airlift and the Marshall Plan, in which America showed its true greatness. For having won the war, we chose not to behave like a conqueror but instead to build the foundations of lasting peace.
(snip)
And what Trump is trying to do is undermine that system, making bullying great again.
Follow the link for the rest.