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Moristotle & Co.: Sunday Review: Downfall

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JOIN OUR COMMUNITY BY COMMENTING ON OUR. Reports, stories, and provocations from around the world. Sunday, August 9, 2015. Hitler and the end of the Third Reich: A reflection on our condition. Some years ago] I decided to watch a couple of opening scenes from a rented video, Downfall. Sixty years later we still have not come to terms with the fact that those who did such horrible things were not animals (what a defamation of our fellow creatures! For me the hardest part is to realize how impossible it is...

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Moristotle & Co.: Second Tuesday on Franklin Hill Farm

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JOIN OUR COMMUNITY BY COMMENTING ON OUR. Reports, stories, and provocations from around the world. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Second Tuesday on Franklin Hill Farm. A quiet Sunday morning walk. Monarch Butterfly ( Danaus plexippus. Orange Jewelweed ( Impatiens capensis. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail ( Papilio glaucus. Allegheny Monkey Flower ( Mimulus ringens. Orange Jewelweed ( Impatiens capensis. Spearmint and Queen Anne's Lace. Black Swallowtail ( Papilio polyxenes. Deptford Pink ( Dianthus armeria. By Mori...

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Moristotle & Co.: Fish for Friday

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JOIN OUR COMMUNITY BY COMMENTING ON OUR. Reports, stories, and provocations from around the world. Friday, July 24, 2015. Edited by Morris Dean. Anonymous selections from recent correspondence. Imagination is more important than knowledge. From a Million Miles Away, a New NASA ‘Blue Marble’ View of Earth. Andrew C. Revkin, NY Times. From] Neil deGrasse Tyson’s reflection on the newest “Blue Marble” photograph of our home planet:. Regrettably, we still live in a turbulent world. But we now have at our...

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Moristotle & Co.: Fourth Saturday's Loneliest Liberal

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JOIN OUR COMMUNITY BY COMMENTING ON OUR. Reports, stories, and provocations from around the world. Saturday, July 25, 2015. Fourth Saturday's Loneliest Liberal. What’s an American car? When the American automobile industry was in trouble, I found myself thinking about what constituted an “American” car and, more importantly, did anyone still want to buy one? I’m still pondering that question. This basic architecture defined American automobiles for much of the 20th Century. The Buick Electra T-Type.

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Moristotle & Co.: Second Monday Music: Stringed humor

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JOIN OUR COMMUNITY BY COMMENTING ON OUR. Reports, stories, and provocations from around the world. Monday, August 10, 2015. Second Monday Music: Stringed humor. Edited by Morris Dean. 8220;Haven’t I seen your face before? 8221; a judge demanded, looking down at the defendant. 8220;You have, Your Honor,” the man answered hopefully. “I gave your son violin lessons last winter.”. 8220;Ah, yes,” recalled the judge. “Twenty years! About half a measure. [. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). By James Knud...

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Moristotle & Co.: Sunday Review: The Crimson Field (TV serial)

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JOIN OUR COMMUNITY BY COMMENTING ON OUR. Reports, stories, and provocations from around the world. Sunday, August 2, 2015. Sunday Review: The Crimson Field (TV serial). UNC TV's June 21 – July 26 airing of The Crimson Field. As Kitty Trevelyan, Alice St. Clair. As Flora Marshall, and Kerry Fox. As Sister Margaret Quayle. Kitty and Flora are two of three young VAD's (Voluntary Aid Detachments), enlisted to provide nursing assistance to British combatants. VADs Rosalie [played by Marianne Oldham. Kitty's w...

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Moristotle & Co.: Fourth Monday Susan Speaks

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JOIN OUR COMMUNITY BY COMMENTING ON OUR. Reports, stories, and provocations from around the world. Monday, July 27, 2015. Fourth Monday Susan Speaks. By Susan C. Price. After seeing the whole show. I am happy I managed to get selected. Much very good work. Presented by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at the historic Barnsdall Park. 8211; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Here are a few photos we took yesterday. Visitors inside the gallery. And pr...

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Moristotle & Co.: First Saturday Bimonthly: The yes tendency

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JOIN OUR COMMUNITY BY COMMENTING ON OUR. Reports, stories, and provocations from around the world. Saturday, August 1, 2015. First Saturday Bimonthly: The yes tendency. Charles Dickens's Uriah Heep. Symbolizes the internal yes-man. If you watch police procedurals. On television, the chances are excellent that you've seen several in which the police are portrayed as quickly settling on one suspect and ignoring the rest. One explanation for confirmation bias is wishful thinking. The introduction was not.

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Moristotle & Co.: Ask Wednesday: Where did "gung ho" come from?

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JOIN OUR COMMUNITY BY COMMENTING ON OUR. Reports, stories, and provocations from around the world. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Ask Wednesday: Where did "gung ho" come from? Speaking of curious phrases. Reading about the phrase. 8220; in the belly of the beast. 8220;He’s a gung ho bastard”. 8220;You don’t have to be so damn gung ho about it.”. 8220;Fuck that gung ho bullshit.”. No one ever said what it meant. We were free to apply it wherever and whenever we felt like it. Here is what I assume. The two Chi...

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Moristotle & Co.: Walter Kirn up in the air!

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JOIN OUR COMMUNITY BY COMMENTING ON OUR. Reports, stories, and provocations from around the world. Saturday, April 17, 2010. Walter Kirn up in the air! Walter Kirn's 2001 novel, Up in the Air. And enjoying it no less than I'm enjoying Ian McEwan's Solar. Up in the Air. 160;   With what dismay, then, did I read this morning, in this coming Sunday's New York Times Book Review. Kirn's front-page review of Solar. Which is about as total a dump-on of another writer's work as a reviewer writes. It opens:.