'A house may be large or small; as long as the surrounding houses are equally small it satisfies all social demands for a dwelling. But let a palace arise...
In Memory of John Cummins. This is a poem I never ever wanted to write and even when he was really crook I didn't even think of writing it because Like us all...
ATLAS SHRUGGED UPDATED FOR THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS. BY JEREMIAH TUCKER - - - - 1. "Damn it, Dagny! I need the government to get out of the way and let me...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/03/CM7F16R604.DTL "The paradox is that the most powerful ingredient of toughness is not muscle power,...
Friends, While we celebrate the goodness of mothers in our lives it is also a good time to remember the words of Julia Ward Howe. Written in 1870 just after...
Marco Cicala, a Leftist Italian journalist, told me about his recent weird experience: when, in an article, he once used the word "capitalism," the editor...
"the real intellectual wealth of the individual depends entirely on the wealth of his real connections. Only then [following the communist revolution] will the...
Gene - "Mayday" (lyrics) We're guilty as charged It's staring us in the face We missed our last chance Now Bevan spins round in his grave Time to charge the...
The Ph.D. Octopus William James Some years ago, we had at our Harvard Graduate School a very brilliant student of Philosophy, who, after leaving us and...
Mishal’s Luck Adam Shatz Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas by Paul McGeough  Buy this book In early...
'In African states the economy can only be developed to the detriment of the workers. For a hell of a long time to come. That's a fact. I don't care what...
"Holiday Cheer" The aisles are crowded with coughing & germs, but do stand in line You will get your fair turn to buy all our stuff we sell with some puff You...
I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality,...
"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience." *********************************************************************** http://www.iww.org.au/ Skype:...
Wrote this on 4/7/2007, but never posted it anywhere. It goes to the tune of "12 Reasons Why" by My Life Story for which there is a cheesy video available on...
"Every single day -- 365 days a year -- an attack against children occurs that is 10 times greater than the death toll from the World Trade Center...We know...
Good review. I also saw The Reader, but I found myself more thinking about the making of the movie rather than the movie itself. I was thinking that celebrity...
"I was born in Palo Alto, California, into the lap of an Iranian diaspora community awash in nostalgia and longing for an Iran many thousands of miles away. As...
Any idiot can face a crisis. It is this day-to-day living that wears you out. - *********************************************************************** Read...
"Hence academic life is a mad hazard. If the young scholar asks for my advice with regard to habilitation, the responsibility of encouraging him can hardly be...
errors of attribution: shamanism versus the prophetic mode That which shamanism does is put you in touch with what you already know, but have not had the...
It's weird that I haven't been able to articulate what I have sensed earlier. Perhaps it is because I have sensed these things, rather than having been born...
Carl Schmitt was a German Catholic authoritarian who hated liberal democracy and ended up supporting the Nazis. He was born on July 11, 1888. He was 29 years...
"It is very easy to inveigh against slavery and similar things in general terms, and to give vent to high moral indignation at such infamies. Unfortunately all...
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