Saturday, October 4, 2014

Pump it Up (Live) -- Elvis Costello & The Attractions (1978)

›
There was a memoir of the Fitzgerald-Hemingway 1920s some time ago with a great title: "Everyone Was So Young" I'...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Freud's Death by Physician-Assisted Suicide

›
Dude, those cigars are going to kill you.  The Atlantic Freud informed the young internist (40 years his junior) about two elements ...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Camille Paglia echoes Freud

›
Time Colleges should stick to academics and stop their infantilizing supervision of students’ dating lives, an authoritarian intrusion t...
1 comment:
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Brothers Karamazov -- "Socialism is...the atheistic question."

›
"Though these young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices, a...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

So wait -- decreasing death rates from stroke is not all good news?

›
  The Atlantic [O]ver the past 50 years, health care hasn’t slowed the aging process so much as it has slowed the dying process. And,...
Monday, September 29, 2014

American Civics Test

›
Annenberg Center Quick Civics Quiz: 1. What are the three branches of government in the United States? 2. How much of a majority ...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

The Garden of Proserpine -- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)

›
"Even the weariest river / Winds somewhere safe to sea."     Here, where the world is quiet;          Here, where all t...