mail order Misoprostol Was mildly depressed buying vegetables again at the supermarket this past week, after a good five months of growing all my greens. I still have some lettuce leaves left in the field, because some self-sown seedlings came up this fall, but in general the season is done.
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Back to the supermarket.
19-Nov-11Yet another remarkable story from Plutarch. The similarities to the sacrifice of Isaac are remarkable, and in general, whether or not religious precepts should be exposed to this kind of treatment, as opposed to taken at face value, is one of the perennially relevant theological questions; and whether or not the virtue of actions may […]
Responsibility to Prosecute.
14-Nov-11Sullivan confesses that “Greenwald has a point” – that one of the reasons why so many Republican presidential candidates support waterboarding is because there are no repercussions for it. It is just another tactic in a game to them. I’m sure that waterboarding a dog would land any of them in jail, a la Michael […]
Maintaining a Republic.
14-Nov-11A republic by definition depends on the existence of res publica, public property. The existence of publicly held institutions, open to all, is the key to equality of opportunity. As public programs will continue to face pressure from so-called Republicans, it is wise to call to mind how access to them has shaped lives. I […]
Garden 2011.
11-Nov-11The long nights have kept me indoors more than usual, and I spent a little time reviewing photos from the course of this year. Normally, like most overeducated people (I suppose), I presume that I am a failure who gets absolutely nothing done whatsoever; which is generally true; but looking at some of the photos […]
Reading a fair amount of Plutarch recently, the lives of Timoleon, Aemilius Paulus, Pelopidas, and Marcellus. What a superb man. Below is very nearly a summa of the highest, deeds-oriented (as opposed to eloquence-oriented) Classicism. You can hear how much he shaped the writerly outlook on Montaigne fifteen centuries later – what a thought, that […]
Andrew Sullivan on the New Atheists.
11-Nov-11I utterly agree with him: I have written about Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins before, as well as their spiritual progenitor Bertrand Russell.
An ass for a lion.
08-Nov-11Ah, the way Tom Paine writes. To the evil of monarchy we have added that of hereditary succession; and as the first is a degradation and lessening of ourselves, so the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and an imposition on posterity. For all men being originally equals, no one by […]
Election Day.
08-Nov-11Just got back from the polls. Voter number 65 in the town of Denning.
The more time passes…
19-Nov-11Fandriana … the more astonishingly inappropriate it seems that this is the place I went to school: The conflagration began after Princeton student Whitney Blodgett started to yell at the marchers as they passed by the bar. “We’re the 1 percent!” Blodgett yelled at them, laughing and making a thumbs up sign. “Get a job!” his […]