Letters to the Editor
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Edwards' surge
It's interesting that Edwards' surge corresponds with his adopting a more populist stance -- at least a more outspoken one. Had he not been afraid to be a Democrat for a year, he'd be on top of heap now. As it is, it's likely too little too late for the reasons you outline here.
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Dirigo
You heard about:
The 450 pound stenographer who was fearful someone will nickname him lard-bucket Falstaff. Nothing against jolly Friars and plumb nuns. 'Tis a sin to be Not merry.
Who doesn't like chubby cherubs? It's best to shun those who are mean, full of greed, voracious, pro-war, and Truth killer gluttons. 'um inner ugly.
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@bop
Yeah, Falstaff is The role model.
Had the fat quaffer and skirt-chaser - and yes, coward - any Latin in him, he would have said, "Dirigo"!!!
"Follow me."
And I would ...
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ondellete
I love this koan?
If the jug is not clean, all you pour into it turns sour. Horace.
Accept the mean spirited neoconservative? noy unconditionally.
There is no need to exaggerate their emptiness? I like that the blogosphere is putting a solar light upon the 'scum''' Coma. Period... People are dropping dead from the neocon's death policy.
Glenn and others' show what is manifest. Empty RWA's Nothings!
You'd think it was sufficiently known but it isn't. So focus.
No manner how minor, the silly fecale/fickle childishness is mighty dangerous.
I call it depravity. Lost! Yes.
It's a old word for 'looseness'
I'm happy for the kind mockery.
The false neoconservative ought to be thankful for the exposure. Another old word with a lot of meaning? Perdition.
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Dirigo?
Lard dripped from the two-behind buckets.
Watch out! The path was very-very slippery.
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The Downside of the sixties...
But it appears that there are whole generations who, conservative or liberal, or anything else, look at the sixties in horror as something that should never come again. I would appreciate hearing why, since I can't fathom it.
November 22, 1963. April 4, 1968. June 5, 1968. Not to mention October 14, 1962. And September 15, 1963. And August 11, 1965. And August 21, 1968.
I'm sure BeBop-O can add his own list of dates, as could WT and many other folks around here. And I'm sure they could explain it all much better than I.
But speaking only for myself, while I'm proud of much of what was accomplished in the 1960s (and I'm glad I was there to see it all), I wish it hadn't come at so high a cost.
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@ Ondelette
This is extremely broad, but one could argue that the United States has never had a Renaissance in the Elizabethan sense. We've borrowed a great deal from, and still owe so much to, the English tradition, both culturally and in terms of our legal practices.
What irks is the longstanding, "prideful" itch by "real" Americans, whoever they are, to demonstrate the everything we have done or will do, has been or will be superior to anything ever done in "old Europe," "old Greece," or "old Rome."
"Pride goeth ... "
Well, there is still no American Shakespeare, and I would have expected one to appear by now.
What you refer to as, in essence, a glimmer of real energy in the arts and sciences, whether or not it was pushed along by the upheaval of that time, was soon snuffed out and made to seem terribly decadent and subversive.
And, here we are ...
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Quick! Quick! Play pick up sticks...
Reform morals.
Learn as a child how to dance. Play some grease spoons on a knee.
Be careful not to be wooed by the filthy lucre money people.
'Um dead possums.
They escort to death.
And who wants to never have lived?
No desire vanity. Why be vain? Why be 'dead' while in the 'flesh'...That's to be walking prematurely to a grave.
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@bop
That's me !
I seem to have misplaced by banana peel.
May I borrow yours?
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Ondolette - You answered your own question.
I know that conservatives hate the sixties with a passion.
As Ames!!! pointed out, it came at a very high cost. That was in lives. All that is left is to kill the memory of it as anything positive and good.
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Look.
Look sanely upon the good as you would the evil.
Pain, in its tender beginnings, has potential qualities,
which we cannot avoid if we are to grow and mature.
Pain and pleasure actually go together.
There is some truth that we need to muster some fortitude to fight against pain and the seductive fascinations of immoderate pleasures. Balance.
They (pain and pleasure) form two springs.
Blessed are they who draw the proverbial water.
Whether we live in the city, country, man or beast,
but do draw, and we all should drink liberally? Caution.
From the first Spring we should drink sparingly,
as in good medicine, and as necessary, from the
second water spring and never be slacked for thirst.
Though not to the point of non-alcoholic drunkenness.
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ondelette & Dirigo...
re: bethincary's critique of the 60's; ondelette's question, and Dirigo's wondering about "our" Shakespeare...
It's important to remember that we were founded by Puritans, who were not known for encouraging either experimentation or the arts.
(Of course, there were the Shakers, but that celibacy thing worked against them.)
And I honestly think that there is still a very strong Puritan strain in our work ethic that prohibits that kind of creativity from flourishing. So, when it does, as it did in the 60's, it's quite an achievement. And yet it must be stopped.
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Dirigo.
I gave my spiel-peel to art monkey?
art guerrilla smokes a bannana skin?
I miss art monkey. He/she turns bannana tree wood for bowls so we have corn flakes and messy sliced bananas with barley at
Pedinska's home in suburban Ohio?
Hell no. Hello Pedinska's husband.
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Anonymust
I once worked with a Shaker vet furniture maker. I am not bragging but, I love making the Shaker Oval boxes that stack. The hammering of the copper tacks and soaking thin wood to bend in water is so much therapy and a fun avocation. Simple gifts. I love the Shaker song too...
I wish I had time to make you a oval hat box. I would if I could.
You can take a hat-pin and prick William Timberman.
Where is he? He thinks his wife, according to Oliver Sacks, is a straw hat? Fun.