I'm actually with you, Will shetterly, but the Nietzsche line was too good not to use.
And maybe the best thing about the Paris story is that it might keep the corpse of Anna Nichol and her retinue off the air for a bit.
The news papers used to talk about the summer, when 'nothing' is happening, as the silly season, where the trivial and inconsequential fill the news hole of the paper.
It's all silly season, seemingly.
I keep thinking a rigorously reality and News based operation (like CNN promised to be)the excluded the tabloid/celebrity shtick would actually be a commercial success, with the right marketing...Ted Turner, you screwed up!
I keep thinking an orthodox Marxist (or Christian) would see in the Hilton story a teaching moment, on the way great wealth can coarsen people and not ennoble them. (I went to a certain prestigious school on scholarship, and the very wealthy I knew tended to come to bad ends...I know at least 3 Republican junkies).
This woman is Scooter Libby and George W Bush, Mary Cheney and Robert Downey JR...A living object lesson in irresponsibility and vast misused power with a stunted potential, famous for nothing but wealth and fame.
But no orthodox Marxists are available in this country, or heard seemingly. And the last Christian was the one they crucified.
Mr. Bill, #4: Do you wear 'Sacred Long Underwear', Mr. Romney?"
I never see why people get so fussed about this detail of Mormon faith. It's no stranger than growing long earlocks or covering your hair.
My interest is simply an attempt to keep Mr. Romney from becoming president, and in calling attention to this bit of Mormon life, think the Fundies who are the Republican base (and my neighbors) will be less likely to vote for him. Cynical, and I'm not against Mormons generally, but there it is.
And perhaps the 'white horse' alludes to the Revelations, 6:8 "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."- KJV
If anyone reads Jon Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven", they would probably be unable to vote for Romney...
And I want someone to ask, "in the spirit of Bill Clinton's 'Boxers or Briefs' question, Do you wear 'Sacred Long Underwear', Mr. Romney?"
THanks Patrick @112 for W. H. Auden's Elegy for William Butler Yeats. Paul Claudel was, of course, the brother to Camille Claudel, Rodin's abused protege, who had Camille institutionalized for wanting to be a sculptor. Auden was right about both. I was going to add a line by T.S. Elliot:"What has the famous spiritualist to do with Sherlock Holmes?"
Most people in the book business (and I ran a bookstore once) know you meet your favorite authors at you peril...
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