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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Published Letters: 78
Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist? Please! He was the original robber-baron, whose workers lived in the most miserable conditions imaginable while making him rich beyond belief. His 'philanthropy' apparently did not extend to the people he so willingly exploited - which makes sense, given that the whole enterprise was his method of simultaneously assuaging his guilt and ensuring his immortality. And btw, I am Scottish born and bred, and grew up 12 miles from his birthplace - he was always held up in school as some kind of role-model, something which even a twelve year-old could see through.
There are Scots we can and should be proud of - Watt, Bell, Logie-Baird, Fleming, Burns - even Adam Smith. Carnegie is not one of them.
I've always thought that this summarizes beautifully what you're talking about.....
Men at Forty
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.
At rest on a stair landing,
They feel it moving
Beneath them now like the deck of a ship,
Though the swell is gentle.
And deep in mirrors
They rediscover
The face of the boy as he practises tying
His father's tie there in secret
And the face of the father,
Still warm with the mystery of lather.
They are more fathers than sons themselves now.
Something is filling them, something
That is like the twilight sound
Of the crickets, immense,
Filling the woods at the foot of the slope
Behind their mortgaged houses.
-- Donald Justice
Twenty(not fifty)-three. This article/poem/discussion aren't about age - they're about recognizing mortality - forget the when and who.
"I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
"And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid."
All human, all the time.
I predict an ending along the lines of "The Usual Suspects" - a revelation so unimagined it will blow the top of our collective heads off - but it will all make sense in hindsight.
You heard it here first.
and the key word is "unimagined."
The. Usual. Suspects.
Reveille.
not wacky....
That's the Little Feat song that's playing at the beginning of the final scene. I'm just sayin'....
Firstly -
love and hope for an eventual happy outcome for your son and for you.
Secondly - a very informative, moving and beautifully-written account - you're a gifted writer.
Ecky-thump. Lost in translation from the old English...
or you'll suffer for ever.
"Emotional Affair"? - you've got to be kidding me - Wake Up!
"Take out" the prostitutes? For a movie, or a meal, maybe? Oh, you mean murder....this has to be the most obscene euphemism ever to pass into common speech.
Yecch...
My god, I agree with Camille Paglia - something's wrong here. Buh-bye, Hill!
"Young Girl Blues", though, last time I looked, was on "Sunshine Superman" - a truly great album.
I love this guy - but this was a gaffe, and he's going to take his lumps for it.
She's a professional reporter - not his wife, or daughter, or a nine-year old girl. It's just not an appropriate or respectful way to address a professional woman. (I'm a guy, btw).
That's all.
It's yours, too. People like you throw around the word "avatar" with gay(no pun intended) abandon, and you have no idea wtf these things mean - just like you have no idea about life in general.
"The incarnation of a Hindu deity, especially Vishnu, in human or animal form." Usually depicted by a Japanimation character, incidentally.
Now whether or not you subscribe to this world-view, to the best of my knowledge, Vishnu wasn't partial to being @$$-frigged by a strap-on. But I could be wrong. Second life? He needs to get a first one.
F.A.K.E. - or worthless - does it really matter?
wasn't actually invented by the Founding Fathers - it's been going on much longer than that. As the Roman poet Horace said:
"Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori" (it is a sweet and fitting thing to die for one's country).
It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now.
Peace.
You really are a twat. Does the WM stand for "White Man"?
You're done, Troll. You and all your kind.
Buh-bye!
I'm white. And a man - so racism and misogyny are moot. Nor am I an Obama voter. And I'm not Russian, either. That's so seventies, dude.
And you're still a twat. And a troll.
with an unarmed man.
And you're still a troll.
And a twat.
Do you get paid by the word, or the idea? Hopefully it's the former.
is that you, ShawnWM? Man, you need some therapy - though I don't know if it would help, in your case.
Try Googling "apostrophe", btw.
Peace.
Don't you tragic arses have anything else to do, apart from sniffing around the dying corpse of the right-wing experiment?
You know who I'm talking to, you paid emissaries of shit-eating.
You're still all twats, by the way.
Don't you Salon people EVER give up? If there's no illegality, why the transparent attempt to imply guilt by association?
I never thought the day would come when Yellow Journalism became the Salon standard.
btw - are you still beating your wife?
Great title, btw.
Lolcait is ShawnWM, the well-known Salon troll.
Mazel Tov, Shawnie - and buh-bye.....
No fans apart from Lakers and Celtics give a crap about this series. They are almost 100% excitement and charisma-free.
Dull as dishwater.
People keep citing her as if she's some kind of role-model. I lived through her governments and believe me, it was living hell for anyone not on their side - she and her odious cronies made GWB and his crew look like saints. The woman was pure evil.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
