Old home movies
I recently bit the bullet and finally sent out some reels of old home movies to be converted to video files. I was worried that the films would be lost or destroyed, or the lesser but still significant worry that … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe
Dark duos: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir and her even-more-famous lover Jean-Paul Sartre, darlings of feminists and the left, were loathsome characters in their personal lives as well in their politics, despite the heroic and self-aggrandizing legends they took great pains to establish. When … Continue reading →
Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day
I’m a bit late with this, but I thought that for yesterday’s Remembrance Day I’d link to a two-part series of mine. I’ve written many posts on the subject of the Holocaust, some of which you can find by doing … Continue reading →
Nervous intensity
Speaking of the ballet “Agon” – and we were – I noticed this quote from the man cast in the original, Arthur Mitchell, about the qualities of his partner Diana Adams: Diana’s nervous intensity made the whole pas de deux … Continue reading →
The impeachment trial: sorry, but for the most part…
…I don’t plan to watch the proceedings. I will report if anything big happens. And watch a clip or read a transcript. But watch it in real time? No thanks. Some of the reason for that is my general antipathy … Continue reading →
On being late: part 2
Part one was certainly a comment-generator. No, I’m not going to write another long post on the subject of being late. At least, not today. And I’m not sure there’s anything still left to say about the subject after this … Continue reading →
On being late
First, a confession: I am habitually late. But only a little bit – usually between five and ten minutes. I have never been late for a plane. I have never been late when it really really mattered. But I am … Continue reading →
Annoying woman in a dark wood
I noticed this link at Instapundit: LATE-LIFE LAMENT OF A LEFTY WOMAN: “I don’t own a home and no one needs me; I am nobody’s mother and now I am nobody’s child, as my parents are no longer living. My … Continue reading →
Fighting back
[NOTE: It always amuses me (in a bleak sort of way) when I read liberal or left-wing sites where people are complaining that the Democrats don’t fight dirty enough. This is generally accompanied by the claim that it’s the Republicans … Continue reading →
Culture war 2.0
Peter Boghossian writes: The correspondence theory of truth basically states that objective truth exists and we can know something about it through evidence and reason… In Culture War 2.0 the correspondence theory of truth—with its commitment to the idea that … Continue reading →
What’s with this “OK Boomer” business?
It’s a thing. William Shatner got into a Twitter fight about it. Here’s an explanation of how the phrase is being used: …[T]he term ‘boomer’ doesn’t precisely mean ‘baby boomer,’ not on the internet, anyway, where Kelly adds “we’re constantly … Continue reading →
Posting is a bit late today: reflections
Posting is a bit late today. One reason is that this morning I heard of the death of an old friend I hadn’t really seen in many years. The death was expected – I already knew this person was very … Continue reading →