“It is impossible to do, but it is what you must do to prove you are a minimally worthy person. It also the best/the worst thing in the world to do, but either way, it is the only way to prove you are worthy to live. “After making tenure at a place like Yale or … More Academic advice
30 hours of work and 21 hours of class, is already 51 hours. Add two commutes. Compare to what we used to do: 15 hours of class, no work and no commute. Still we did not have time for many evenings or weekend days off from studying. Axé.
The closest declaration to this section of the NDAA 2012 bill is the German Enabling Act of 1933, the Ermächtigungsgesetz or Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich and you know where that led. Axé.
These days, it’s hard to recognize that America. The wage stagnation that began in the late ’70s has since bestowed on us the kind of income inequality more typical of a third-world oligarchy. The real minimum wage is less than it was in 1968, and the richest 1 percent of Americans take home nearly 25 … More That America
“It led to a forgetting. Of self, of work, of relationship to self and work and others.” Read the whole post. Actually it is quite common to be told to do as one is told, because if one does not follow instructions precisely, one will fall off a cliff. Of course it is only sometimes … More A most interesting post from Moria. On strategy
Axé.
I stayed in the country for a while, living in León. And Bill Deshon, Shipley, Dixie, Bob Gray, Bill Stoker, and others came to see me and they told me about the second expedition and Walker’s death. How on the Mississippi one night he silently weighed anchor: They landed on the coast of Honduras late … More With Walker in Nicaragua – trozo final
Axé.
I unexpectedly saw the inauguration of the live Nativity at 4:30 PM, 23 December 2011, at the shrine of St. Francis of Assisi at Columbus and Vallejo in San Francisco. There were four angels, three shepherds, two goats, two lambs, one llama, one donkey, and one Holy Family with a live baby. Outside was an … More St. Francis of Assisi
They loved Granada like a woman. Even today tears well up in their eyes when they remember the loss of their dear Granada the town of the Chamorros … Where once there was love. At last the pure waters, the clean blue breezes of the early morning and out of Granada with its red corpses … More Granada after Walker
