Home Burial is one of the most gut wrenching poems that Robert Frost ever wrote. Though it must be admitted that in many ways the poem is more like lines out of novel then a proper poem.
Poem of the Week: 4/6/08 – 4/12/08
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Rant of the Week: 4/6/08 – 4/12/08
If you have never heard of the Blog called “Things that White People Like” your cultural awareness is sadly lacking. In just a few short months the blog has become an overnight sensation.
Its title is misleading. It is all about what yuppies like, not white people in general. But we can forgive them this false advertising because its title is deliberately designed to poke fun at the yuppies reluctance to talk about race. (It works; the comment section always has a bunch of people complaining what a racist he is)
In support of its broader goal of telling it like it is, we thought we would make his post on white people and shorts rant of the week.
Essay of the Week: 4/6/08 – 4/12/08
Winston Churchill is one of those secular saints that everyone is taught to love. Everyone knows that Winston Churchill was one of the good guys of World War II. And almost nobody has read the speeches that made him famous.
There is absolutely no excuse for this state of affairs. The speeches of Churchill were given only 70 odd years ago and they are perfectly understandable today. When you read them, you understand something about the man and his times that you could not get from reading a dozen chapters in various history books on his time period.
Take Churchill’s speech on the Munich Agreement for example. It is one thing to read in the history books about how Churchill opposed the Munich Agreement and it is quite another to read the actual speech in which he opposed that appeasement. In the history books, Churchill comes across as a man who was on the right side of the argument. But when you read the man’s actual speech he comes off as eerily prophetic (appropriately enough, it ends with a quote from the book of Daniel). If you had infallible prophetic vision of what the future would hold, you could have hardly come up with a better speech then the one Churchill gave.
Why does this matter? Because hearing the prophetic nature of Churchill’s speech and contrasting it with the speech that Neville Chamberlain gave is receive a lesson on the human nature that is far more powerful than any text book recap. Especially when you listen to the cheers that greeted his speech.
Walking the El Caminito del Rey
Courtesy Vanderleun I came across this youtube clip…..
The guy is a nut. I don’t think he is using the proper safety gear most of the time and he is going way to fast.
Do a flicker search to get a better idea of what the place is like. This shot gives you an idea of what the entrance is like.
This is the Wikipedia article about EL Caminito del Rey
Stay out of Cities
As cities are going to have a harder and harder time raising revenue, I think you will see more of this…
Six U.S. cities have been found guilty of shortening the amber cycles below what is allowed by law on intersections equipped with cameras meant to catch red-light runners. The local governments in question have ignored the safety benefit of increasing the yellow light time and decided to install red-light cameras, shorten the yellow light duration, and collect the profits instead.
New York Times backs up Sippican Cottage
You remember this rant from Sippican Cottage on how it was hard to get a doctor now that every one had health insurance? Now even the New York Times has noticed. Now those people who only believe those things that appear in the New York Times can no longer call Sippican Cottage a liar.
Loading a truck
About a year ago P.B. instituted a policy that the truck drivers were not to load their own trucks; only Acme personnel could use the forklifts and load the trucks. I no longer remember the nominal reasons, much less whether they made sense. I think it had to do with legal liability for the truck Click Here to continue reading.
Someone we know getting up in the morning
This reminds me; I have got to read the books some day. (h/t best blog around)
Poem of the Week: 3/30/08 – 4/5/08
This week’s poem of the week is Rich Mullin’s song How to grow up big and strong. In a slightly perverse way, it fits with both this week’s rant and this week’s essay.
Rant of the Week: 3/30/08 – 4/5/08
We have put videos in the poem of the week section. But never before have we put a clip in the rant of the week section. But this week we are making the very controversial Fitna the rant of the week.
We are of mixed minds in posting this. Fitna is nothing more than propaganda. By that we mean that it is designed to shut your brain down and let your emotions take over. On the other hand though, it is interesting to see a well done piece of propaganda. More to point, you should see for yourself what all the fuss is about.