Thursday, February 29, 2024

References

 Confucius

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone. Morals and art will deteriorate. Justice goes astray. The people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness is what is said. This matters above everything.

Voltaire

Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Mark Twain

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter -- it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Cultural reappropriation

 1) Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan (pop. 300,000) has had a rapid influx of Russians avoiding the draft. 

2) Despite its pop-py sound, The Monkees' 1966 mega-smash "Last Train To Clarksville"  was about a U.S. draftee headed to Vietnam.

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Wunniful, wunniful


Thursday, November 16, 2017

Notes


Thursday, November 2, 2017

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