Friday, January 02, 2004

Self Preservation Quote

Once again a borrowed quote from Russell Whitaker who runs the blog Survival Arts. From the Dalai Lama no less.

"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."

The Dalai Lama
May 15, 2001

Might make a good mantra.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/02 at 06:23 AM
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Globalization, Welfare, Wealth Re-distribution and Spiritual Poverty

Curt, posting over at Shonk’s Selling Waves, has been reading Theodore Dalrymple’s "Life at the Bottom" and shares a few comments of interest on the issues which make up the title of this post.  Curt’s post is entitled “Chapter 2. In which various polemical causes are advanced," is worth a read just to get you thinking.  At least if you prefer to think rather than sleep walk through life.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/02 at 06:10 AM
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It's Art and You'll Like it Dammit

In the it’s art and you’ll like it, dammit, even if you won’t pay to see it, we’ll make you pay for it anyway category, we learn that the inestimable NEA will excrete 35K on the La Jolla Playhouse so said playhouse, and how apt is that term, can produce a play about a two-bit, serial killing, gay man.  But it must be art because the main character in the play killed Versace and the subject matter is gay men.  As “Bill the Cat” used to say “Ack.”

Via Drudge.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/02 at 05:03 AM
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Thursday, January 01, 2004

On Emerson

Emerson contributed many excellent essays and opinion pieces to American literature.  The Atlantic, which Emerson was instrumental in founding, has an article, with links to a few of Emerson’s essays, and others written about Emerson, which are worth reading.  The piece is entitled “The Sage and the Magazine."

Via J. Orlin Grabbe.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/01 at 08:21 AM
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It's Time

Brian Greene, author of "The Elegant Universe," a book which focuses its gaze on String Theory, writes a op-ed piece for the New York Times on time.  The piece is entitled “The Time We Thought We Knew" and makes for an interesting read on the first day of 2004.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/01 at 05:40 AM
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