Happy Belated Day, Walt Whitman (Tuesday was his birthday)!
I accept reality and dare not question it. Walt Whitman, The Bard of Democracy
An Historian’s Thoughts on The Founders and The Second Amendment
The sentence is weak. The weakness is deliberate. Madison couldn’t afford, on the one hand, to let the amendment seem to contradict the hard-won federal military power in the Constitution’s main body. He couldn’t afford, on the other hand, to underscore too strongly for the states’ comfort the overwhelming nature of that federal power. The […]
Summer: Do These Chucks Go with Seersucker?
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. F. Scott Fitzgerld If I could try cases in my Chucks, I would.
Happy Logic Day! #BertrandRussell
Put a man on the edge of the abyss and – in the unlikely event that he doesn’t fall into it – he will become either a mystic or a madman… Which is probably the same thing… Bertrand Russell
That’s pretty ‘berk’, as the Brits say
Sentencing Mitchell, Recorder of Leeds, Judge Guy Kearl QC, said: “I don’t doubt you didn’t intend to undermine the course of justice but that is the effect of what you were doing.” As a solicitor, he added, Mitchell knew “the importance of court orders and the consequences of breaching them”. “I have formed the view […]
If You Can, Always Stay On Library Way
As a lifelong and committed nerd with five decades under my belt, I don’t know how I avoided staying on Library Way all this time. The sidewalks speak to you with messages left on pages of your favorite books. In one direction, the New York Public library is filled with American treasures. In the other, […]
Happy Day Christopher Hitchens (wherever you are)!
Civics and manners are in decline, as is our ability to agree on facts (things that are empirically and scientifically true). I don’t know what to do about that. But it makes debate much more difficult. Toronto Star Article on the legacy of Christopher Hitchens
Quote of the Day.
To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave. Elvis Presley