Particularly like the last lines:
Baseball fan I am,
And lifelong Yankee Hater
Except for Yogi, Number Eight
That golden tongued orator!
CaTrumpey weekend
Estonia : E-Residency
Interesting news tidbit: Estonia Offers E-Residency.
This could be the toe-in-the-water, a tentative exploration of what is possible today and might become increasingly useful in the future.
Think of it as facilitating access to the day-to-day needs of living and doing business, as opposed to the purely government-related matters. After all, 99% of what we do – online and offline – has nothing to do with being citizens of a country and more with being residents of a country.
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Jukebox: Glen Campbell’s Farewell
Friday’s Jukebox early…
Why Are We Here?
That’s not a philosophic question – it’s the raison d’ etre for The Agonist.
 
John Adams’s answer: “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. |
More To Life Than Bacon – Sweet Potato Latkes
Since the confluence of Thansksgiving and Hanukkah is so rare, we’ll combine the two traditions.
Armistice Day
For irony, click the photo and note the banner. 🙂
Some few people have noted that November 11 was originally designated Armistice Day, and commemorated peace, not the glorification of war and warriors. It was that way when I was younger and was observed in a solemn mood; sober, thoughtful sadness. People wept – grown men, in a day when men wept seldom and never publicly. My grandmother never failed to observe every Armistice Day, crying softly, although our family lost no one in two World Wars.
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We’re Doing It….
We’re doing it wrong?
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More To Life Than Bacon – Rice Pudding Again
There were complaints my last rice pudding recipe took too long to make.
Thus rice pudding again, only quicker – from C.S.Lewis.
(and a thought for your day)
…into that good night.
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
– Dylan Thomas
The poet was talking of old men, but the American Global Capitalist Empire seems determined to follow his advice. It will not to go gently, but like old men, it will go. We pretty much know what to expect when a person dies, but what can we expect when an empire dies?
Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius – and the madness is well underway.
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