… was when he went through the mouth of Hell.”
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… was when he went through the mouth of Hell.”
Recent discussion in some comments brought up the nature/nurture question and Steven Pinker’s book The Blank Slate.
Racial segregation has probably done more to shape American cities than any other factor. The Guardian [guard] has a thoughtful and very deep article about the structural effects of inequality on some cities – including Baltimore, Maryland, where I grew up.
The Iraqi army got US-made M-1 Abrams tanks (older generation) from the Americans. [stderr] It’s the world’s premier main battle tank; the gold standard of tankness.
Now, when there is a mass shooting incident, a new strategy has begun to appear; it’s a form of “what about-ism” – delaying having to do anything by throwing up a barrage of problems with every possibility that anyone offers.
On my trip to Munich, I re-read The Wizards of Armageddon by Fred Kaplan. [amazn] It’s a depressing read, but interesting, which I undertook to renew my understanding of what Daniel Ellsberg did for a living before he became a heroic whistle-blower.
Warning: I get a bit ranty.
A surrealist is walking down the street, and sees a banana peel in his path; he says, “Mon Dieu! I am going to fall down again!” and keeps walking.
Hallmark denies or downplays whether it had any involvement in the invention of Valentine’s day, though it is often tagged as a “Hallmark Holiday.”
A couple of sheets of 304 stainless steel, perforated, dropped into my mail box this morning. I’m hoping to eventually experiment with bonding it to high carbon steel, but that’s another story. When I unwrapped them, I noticed something weird – I thought maybe I had slipped something in my water without thinking about it, because what I saw reminded me of things I’ve seen while on painkillers or psychoactives.
The New Zealand Police are trying to convince me that they have a sense of humor, are compassionate, (fairly) sensible, and well-trained.