Comments on: Open thread 8/8/23

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 04:21:33 +0000

@ huxley > “Why we can’t create plays like Shakespeare anymore?”

He used up all the new words.

https://nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/words-shakespeare-invented/
“It is Shakespeare who is credited with creating the below list of words that we still use in our daily speech – some of them frequently. … And it wasn’t just words that Shakespeare created, documented, or brought into common usage – he also put words together and created a host of new phrases.”

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:10:42 +0000

meanwhile

https://twitter.com/US_OGA/status/1688932313055531009

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:01:10 +0000

shakespeare was popular entertainment crafted from danish sagas, or the pamphlets of popular tudor propagandists like merton, but he could craft them
into forms that touched on the fundamental emotions that drive the world even today, love and hate, anger jealousy, grasping for power,

By: David Foster

David Foster — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 12:52:19 +0000

re Vaccine’s, here’s an extensive analysis of the effect of vaccines and behavior on US Covid death rates:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/08/the-impact-of-vaccines-and-behavior-on-u-s-cumulative-deaths-from-covid-19.html

HOWEVER, in a quick read-thru of the paper (the full PDF is available), I don’t see any consideration of adverse side effects and the degree to which they may have offset the vaccine benefits, especially for certain age groups.

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:42:49 +0000

huxley, Thanks.

THIS is the SRV studio version I was trying to link to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An4uDegHB8s

Though you can’t go wrong with Hendrix. My erroneous link.

By: huxley

huxley — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:27:20 +0000

Re: Little Wing

TommyJay:

An amazing song. For electric guitarists it is a crucible test. No flashy shredding, but such delicacy and intriguing little runs.

One might assume it’s written for a woman, but Hendrix was personifying the Monterey Pop Festival as a lover.

It’s on the “Axis Bold as Love” album, which is my favorite Hendrix.

By: huxley

huxley — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:14:24 +0000

I was hoping for an answer to the question, “Why we can’t create plays like Shakespeare anymore?”

Whatever made Shakespeare Shakespeare, I doubt it had much to do with the doughnut shape of the theater, the conversations between audience members nor the beer being hawked directly in the aisles.

By: T J

T J — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 03:09:45 +0000

Geoffrey, Snow On The Pine and interested readers. Xi Van Fleet’s forthcoming book is entitled “Maoist America”.

She says she was around age 6 when Mao’s Great Leap Forward began.

He new title amplifies the “Maoism with American characteristics” definition made by James Lindsey, as well as by Victor Davis Hanson. I don’t think that even Chris Ruffo differs, either.

We seem to have reached a critical consensus about Woke and SWJs.

Xi Van Fleet emphasizes that you cannot know where you are, or your culture and civilization without accurate history. I expect her to weave that history around an account of her lived experiences.

I would like to see these thinkers collaborate and discuss Wikipedia’s definition of The Great Cultural Revolution
and then refine it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

By: VV

VV — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 02:45:12 +0000

Neo, she sounds like another of the rare(?) “left-to-right-changers”:

“Essays on politics and culture from Sasha Stone’s Substack. A former Democrat and Leftist who escaped the bubble to get to know the other side of the country and to take a more critical look at the left. Sashastone.substack.com”

I searched her name on your site and it was not found. Thought you should know. Quote:

Yes, David Brooks, You Are the “Bad Guys”
But it’s not entirely your fault…

https://sashastone.substack.com/p/yes-david-brooks-you-are-the-bad#details

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 02:32:30 +0000

I say let PETA have a go at ’em.
“Newsom Funded Chinese COVID Lab Known To Biden’s FDA”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/newsom-funded-chinese-covid-lab-known-bidens-fda
Opening grafs:
‘ The discovery last month of a Chinese COVID biolab in California shocked the nation, but likely came as no surprise to the state’s Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom.
‘ He helped fund it.
‘ The now-notorious secret facility, which contained a massive stockpile of “infectious agents,” including coronavirus, and nearly a thousand dead lab mice and vials of unidentified biological fluids, also likely came as no surprise to the Biden administration.
‘ The FDA last year issued a recall warning for nearly 54,000 COVID rapid tests manufactured by the company that owned the lab.
‘ Fresno County officials discovered the “unlicensed laboratory” in a warehouse owned by Prestige Biotech, which has ties to multiple Chinese pharmaceutical firms and a president who lives in China and can only be reached by email.
‘ The company’s CCP links extend to Barry Zhang …reportedly a [former] leader
of the Chinese-American Society of CPAs and its work with China’s United Front espionage and propaganda network….’

Oh no, not ANOTHER Barry…
Yep, it’s the lawless leading the lawless down the road to perdition. (Hmm, sounds like the name of a town in Californie-yay…)

Hypocrisy by any other name would smell as sweet.
(Like the “Prestige” part, though!)

File under: Zhang Gang.