Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been thinking that the Bush presidency is a partial presidency. That is, we normally expect a president to have wide ranging views on the nature of government, the needs of the country, and a long list of things that need to be of concern to a “President”. Bush never had such a list. He [...]
Posted in politics on August 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Padilla case makes us all very nervous. Scott Horton has a great summary of the issues.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 19, 2007 | No Comments »
As of today I’ve created a new blog for
Doug’s raw posts. Raw Posts and my own reflections were too mixed up and hard to follow, and the reflections will stay here.
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2007 | No Comments »
august 17 2007
A modern crematorium: absence in Buddhist India | openDemocracy
The detour took us into a very traditional India. Villages of mud-brick, daub and whattle, the acridity of dung-fires, string-beds on the stoop, tooth-sticks, washed-out road-beds. There are no unpopulated horizons and no concealing the poverty in this, the poorest state in India. Villagers, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 14, 2007 | No Comments »
August 14 2007
Starting by ending
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David Frum very seriously explains that The Problem With Karl is that he answered the wrong question:
The question he answered so successfully was a political one: How could Republicans win elections after Bill Clinton steered the Democrats to the center?
The question he unfortunately ignored [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 13, 2007 | No Comments »
aug 13 2007
Scott Horton
is bringing to us the best of German humanism. Here is a part of one of many resources he is laying out for us.
“What Is, and To What End Do We Study History?” by Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
And finally we come to Wallenstein. This trilogy of plays [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 13, 2007 | No Comments »
aug 9 2007
LUCRETIUS - BOOK V COSMOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY about 50B.C.
The next stage in the argument is this. I must first demonstrate that the world also was born and is composed of a mortal body. Then I must deal with the concourse of matter that laid the foundation of land, sea and [...]
Posted in daily notes, history on August 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Lots of comparative history this time. My comments shift to indented.
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GERMANY, THE RE-ENGINEERED ALLY
PART 1: Readiness for endless warNot long ago, expectations that Europe might step up as a counterweight to US imperial policies focused on Germany, as a known moderating, [...]
Posted in daily notes on August 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Lots of comparative history this time.
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GERMANY, THE RE-ENGINEERED ALLY
PART 1: Readiness for endless warNot long ago, expectations that Europe might step up as a counterweight to US [...]
Posted in daily notes on August 6, 2007 | No Comments »
I am wondering, how much the world is falling apart, taking on new qualities becoming something older, and newer, feudalism and cyberspace.
globeandmail.com: Staying gold for 40 years
With 13.4 million copies sold, teen novel The Outsiders is even more relevant today than when it was first published, writes Micah Toub
The amazing thing [...]
