A Garden Variety Revolutionary
But no American political leader has displayed the revolutionary mania for renaming so openly as Donald Trump.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
“Poetry” by John Shelton Reed
My old friend and unedited co-conspirator, John Shelton Reed, has taken to writing what he calls poems. I’ll say this for him, he has outdone his role models, J.Gordon Coogler and the Great McGonnigle. If this first specimen fails to incite howls of protest or calls of “Someone get a rope,” I’ll post several more.
Italian August 21
Uses of the subjunctive, a compound verb or two. 10 more pages. Feedback requested before proceeding further
Shreds and Patches: A San Francisco Bay Blues Parenthesis, Part One
had by the age of 21 had enough experience of beats, Bohemians, and hippies to satisfy any cravings for the counter-culture
Wednesday’s Child: The Conspiracy Scam
Soon thereafter I received a call from my wife, informing me that Nikolai “has ADHD” and the school was proposing to “put him on Ritalin.
Republicans Still Hate the South
Is anyone else tired of “conservative” Republicans like Ted Cruz, who are forever blaming the Democratic party for the KKK?
Augustine’s Confessions, Book I: 1-28 (Expanded 08.27)
The title is ambiguous. In ordinary classical Latin, confiteor means something like to acknowledge and error and/or concede a point as true. Ecclesiastical writers used it to mean something like “profess the faith.” Augustine, always the rhetorician–no matter how he strove to distance himself from his secular profession, plays upon both senses.
Religio Philologi: Augustine on Science and Magic
The lust of our eyes leads to a lust of the mind which then seeks to make experiments and gain knowledge
Ray Olson on Film: The 1980s
You could say that the 1980s were just more of the 1970s, as far as the movies went. Hollywood got lamer, the indies kept American cinema alive and interesting, past masters were retiring or dying.
Foreign Policy by Petulance
North Korea is a nuclear power. Little Rocket Man, Trump’s buddy, in 10 minutes could kill hundreds of thousands of people in Japan or South Korea, or kill everyone on U.S. bases in South Korea.
