Ex-Democrat, but not a believing Republican. Lover of the humanities and civilization.
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Do I get the feeling from Wilson's translations that I'd be better off reading an animated gif of a scolding blue-hair with a septum ring saying "Toxic Masculinity is Very Problematic"? Yes.
Finally, with the Laistrygones, he has 11 of the ships tie up in a narrow inlet, though he ties his own ship up outside. The result: 11 ships, almost 500 men, lost.
See Odysseus in America for the summary of charges against Odysseus. amazon.com/Odysseus-America-…
Shay reads the Odyssey as a catalog of how returning veterans can lost their homecoming. He also makes it plain that a hero can be larger than life and yet bad news for his friends.
This is amazing. I guess the reality in SF is finally overriding the "Trump is practically Hitler" narrative. That being said, I'd expect huge protests and antifa action.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that President Trump should deploy the National Guard to San Francisco to combat crime: “We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it.” sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m…
Read both Basic Economics and The Vision of the Annointed. – at Vallejo, CA
Like and RT this status if you would genuinely like to see President @realDonaldTrump and VP @JDVance award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dr. Thomas Sowell.
‘Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness’ Review: Ends of the Story wsj.com/arts-culture/books/j… via @WSJBooks
Austen tips her anti-romantic hand in the first chapter of Sense and Sensibility: "Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne’s romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life."
On sharing, from Fielding's Tom Jones:
‘To confess the truth,’ said he, ‘there is one degree of generosity (of charity I would have called it) which seems to have some show of merit, and that is, where, from a principle of benevolence and Christian love, we bestow on another what we really want ourselves; where, in order to lessen the distresses of another, we condescend to share some part of them, by giving what even our own necessities cannot well spare. This is, I think, meritorious; but to relieve our brethren only with our superfluities; to be charitable (I must use the word) rather at the expense of our coffers than ourselves; to save several families from misery rather than hang up an extraordinary picture in our houses, or gratify any other idle, ridiculous vanity, this seems to be only being Christians, nay, indeed, only being human creatures. Nay, I will venture to go farther, it is being in some degree epicures: for what could the greatest epicure wish rather than to eat with many mouths instead of one; which I think may be predicated of anyone who knows that the bread of many is owing to his own largesses. 1/2
He above is Allworthy, the uncle of the protagonist. As if anticipating the objection that sharing means giving food to ingrates and bums, he goes on:
‘As to the apprehension of bestowing bounty on such as may hereafter prove unworthy objects, because many have proved such; surely it can never deter a good man from generosity: I do not think a few or many examples of ingratitude can justify a man’s hardening his heart against the distresses of his fellow-creatures; nor do I believe it can ever have such effect on a truly benevolent mind. Nothing less than a persuasion of universal depravity can lock up the charity of a good man; and this persuasion must lead him, I think, either into atheism or enthusiasm;* but surely it is unfair to argue such universal depravity from a few vicious individuals; nor was this, I believe, ever done by a man who, upon searching his own mind, found one certain exception to the general rule.’ 2/2
Point taken: team R often needlessly antagonizes women. Antagonized voters, including "childless cat ladies" vote. The goal in politics is to excite your base without inciting the opposition. 1/4
On that therapy: "Let's see: my teachers have told me about toxic masculinity and that I'm a proto-rapist of the patriarchy. HR repeats that sermon. Now I should spend my own time and money on 'therapy' to hear the same sermon?" 3/4