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By Carl Weetabix, on September 17th, 2009 What’s old is new again (and again, and again, and…):
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict [...]
By Carl Weetabix, on September 13th, 2009 While I’m on the subject of morality, what really is the answer to all the immorality in the world?
No I’m not talking watching “Real Sex” on HBO, nor for that matter mass murder, single murder, rape, or any of really horrible crimes that happen. Clearly the people who do those (excluding “Real Sex” watchers [...]
By Carl Weetabix, on September 13th, 2009 A long, long time ago, but not so far away, I went to a “Howard Dean” rally when he was running for President. At the time, and unfortunately I don’t remember the exacts (so paraphrasing), he said:
Corporations are not good or evil, they’re “amoral”.
It was the first time I had heard it put [...]
By Carl Weetabix, on September 13th, 2009 Take this and shove it up your “Tea Party”:
The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. I see, in some Resolutions of Town Meetings, a Remonstrance against giving Congress a Power to take, as they call it, the People’s Money out of [...]
By Carl Weetabix, on September 10th, 2009 Is nothing sacred anymore?:
NYC’s Tavern on the Green files for Chapter 11
Actually I have fond memories of visiting this with my “big sister” (14 years my senior) when I was a little tike. We didn’t eat there, but somehow I understood I was privileged enough to be walking on the holy ground [...]
By Carl Weetabix, on September 10th, 2009 Hmmm… I’m wondering. I thought Brad Delong always called it just “ShrillBlog” and then sometime after I posted a comment here about how Greenwald should be inducted in the “Order of The Shrill”, this and this appeared with “Order of The Shrill” in them.
So, was it my idea? I should be so lucky – [...]
By Carl Weetabix, on September 10th, 2009 A recent post by Brad Delong got me thinking about “Centrism”. He states:
I am a member of the sensible, technocratic bipartisan center interested in Policies That Work and Make America BetterTM and uninterested in Postures of Ideological PurityTM
First of all, he may be “center”, but he sure reads “to the left” in my [...]
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