What kind of outfit lets a drunk monopolize a microphone at a public event?
"Later in his impromptu speech Mr. Sha turned to an American colleague, singling out Bob Orr, from the executive office of the secretary-general.
"I really don't like him: he's an American and I really don't like Americans," he said.
A second senior UN official who was at the dinner said: "It went on for about ten or fifteen minutes but it felt like an hour.""
Mr. Sha needs himself a cold beer in the Rose Garden. That would set him right up.
(via Instapundit)
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
School is Back in Session
Prepare and eat a light meal, refill your glass, then open your philosophy book to:
"That is, the Founding Fathers took the English constitutional principles, the institutional forms that already existed in the colonies, and set them down on paper. They were not inventing a new society. They only unified and systematized already existing principles. So this is not a revolutionary movement in any way. As a counterbalance to this, some movements which, in the Brazilian popular culture, in the Brazilian mass media, and school textbooks, are regarded as reactionary and anti-revolutionary, such as the Italian Fascism, or even Nazism, are obviously revolutionary. Why? Because they raised the proposition of a radically new society: they would destroy all existing institutions and rebuild everything from scratch. In the German case, this was an even more radically revolutionary because the foundations of the new society to be created were derived from a recent science, evolutionist biology."
You may need to break this up over a few sittings. It's worth your time.
What makes a revolutionary a revolutionary? Just where did the movement of "movements" origniate? I never really gave it much thought.
(via protein wisdom)
"That is, the Founding Fathers took the English constitutional principles, the institutional forms that already existed in the colonies, and set them down on paper. They were not inventing a new society. They only unified and systematized already existing principles. So this is not a revolutionary movement in any way. As a counterbalance to this, some movements which, in the Brazilian popular culture, in the Brazilian mass media, and school textbooks, are regarded as reactionary and anti-revolutionary, such as the Italian Fascism, or even Nazism, are obviously revolutionary. Why? Because they raised the proposition of a radically new society: they would destroy all existing institutions and rebuild everything from scratch. In the German case, this was an even more radically revolutionary because the foundations of the new society to be created were derived from a recent science, evolutionist biology."
You may need to break this up over a few sittings. It's worth your time.
What makes a revolutionary a revolutionary? Just where did the movement of "movements" origniate? I never really gave it much thought.
(via protein wisdom)
Saturday, September 04, 2010
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