1. I had not known that Kishori Amonkar passed away in April.
2. Arvind Subramanian to teach on-line course about the Indian economy.
3. The culture that is DUP. And Henry on DUP. And dictatorship, no. And on Sinn Féin abstentionism. And the strange rebirth of Scottish conservatism.
4. Extended essay on classical liberalism in China.
5. I don’t think I’ve ever read a more “mood-affiliated” movie review (Wonder Woman).
Thanks for linking our China article, I read MR daily.
3. A mock clash between Union and Confederates might be therapeutic for America.
5. Caroline correctly identifies the tension many women feel. What I expected was male aggression from the heroine and instead found fierce protectiveness. What I expected was an over-sexualized bimbo and instead found a curious/graceful woman. A female character that was luminescent within a patriarchal construct. It was a surprise.
3. Some locales are testing the therapeutic aspects of removing from the public square Confederate Generals’ statues.
I’d feel better if the ideas of this guy weren’t commemorated by statuary: http://nailheadtom.blogspot.com/2017/05/gen-phil-sheridan-memorial-in-sheridan.html
http://www.theroot.com/how-louisianas-legislature-voted-in-favor-of-white-supr-1795259941
I can not imagine Brazilians erecting monuments to racial supremacism, but Americans…
From the link:
“Yes, by definition, no advocates of the Confederacy can call themselves “American.” It’s as stupid as if the Founding Fathers who wrote the Declaration of Independence had referred to themselves as “Englishmen.””
The founding fathers did refer to themselves as “Englishmen,” remember that stuff about “the rights of Englishmen?”
“Jefferson Davis was a white supremacist. That is not an opinion. This is a fact based on quotes such as these:
“Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the forms of free government, because they have copied them. To its benefits they have not attained, because that standard of civilization is above their race.””
Certainly the past 150 years of history has proven him wrong!
Globally, one of the most sought-after assets in the world is citizenship in a majority-white country.
FYI – The statues I referenced are monuments to American valor, not to your liberal curse word du jour.
By Public Law 810 passed in 1958 by both houses of the US Congress and signed by the President of the US, Confederate veterans were made equivalent to US veterans. At the time, it was aimed at widows and orphans. The law did not pertain to the Confederate Battle Flag.
I imagine there is a comparative teaspoon full of Brazilian valor worthy of statuary.
I imagine there is a comparative teaspoon full of Brazilian valor worthy of statuary.
All expended wasting 2/3 of the male population of Paraguay. #winning.
“All expended wasting 2/3 of the male population of Paraguay.”
More like 80%. They attacked first. They murdered Brazilian soldiers in cold blood. They forced their kids to attack Brazilian soldiers at Costa Ñu. They were cowards! We had no choice but fighting for the survival of our nation.
“The statues I referenced are monuments to American valor, not to your liberal curse word du jour.”
American value seems to be an oxymoron.
“Certainly the past 150 years of history has proven him wrong!”
And the 150 years before that, too. Brazil has developed a rich culture, itliterature and music are second to none, itsscience and technology are the most developed of the Southern Hemisphere, its people is one of the most respected in the word and its economy is among the biggest thenworld has ever seen.
That’s different BECAUSE! If it weren’t for double standards they’d have no standards at all.
They don’t have a problem with Lincoln and Sherman statues, either. Both would have been thrown out of the SS for war crimes.
England is failing and falling, people must prepare for a hard landing.
5 reads like it was written by a high school student.
Likely Vox considers a good editor as a patriarchal construct.
Facts, grammar, History, literacy, mathematics, punctuality, personal responsibility, truth, etc. are patriarchal constructs.
5 – I’m thinking I’d rather hear the stream of consciousness behind what a well written and edited review would only hide and make you seem like an asshole for pointing out. This goes for most journalism as well. Let’s go to advocacy lawyering model for all journalism.
God already sent you Yglesias and Klein.
There was a point in your education where you were supposed to have learned that your first reactions to the topic are usually wrong, and that formulating your ideas and trying to back them up with arguments can actually help you get to the truth. Too bad that you somehow missed out on that …
And “advocacy lawyering” is the precise opposite of “stream of consciousness” BTW.
“There was a point in your education where you were supposed to have learned that your first reactions to the topic are usually wrong”
Yeah, I don’t remember that. Usually, one’s first, intuitive reaction is the correct one. There is however a certain attraction in counter-intuitive truths: the truth you have to be taught, but once you know, you can feel superior to others by knowing. The easiest way to discover one of those counter-intuitive truths is to simply make it up: thus people like you believing there is some value in articles like the one linked.
Contextual pro-tip: one would say “of the DUP” and “on the DUP”.
One other cultural element: Like other cases you may know in the USA in which an under-scrutinised, sub-national executive is led pretty much unchallenged by one party, they have an interesting history with taxpayers’ money.
#3. Ah, Scotland. So far from God, so close to its own stupidities.
Can you elaborate please?
It’s not an ill-treated component of the UK. You’d have called it that 250 years ago, but not any time recently (and Victoria made it a point to appeal to Scotland). They’re neither an affluent nor a poor region within the UK – absolutely average and quite similar in income levels to that portion of the south of England which lies outside the urban glob around London and the M-4 corridor. They’re better off than Wales, Ulster, the north of England, and the Midlands. Employment-to-population ratios and unemployment rates in Scotland are about the national mean.
Unlike other parts of the country, they’ve got their own regional legislature and they have ample population in the whole territory and in key cities to support just about any sort of service which is commonly on-site. Of course they’d have more autonomy if they were sovereign. However, they want sovereignty in order to place themselves under the yoke of Brussels.
One Scots particularst says on these boards that he’s ‘tired of being governed by southern English public schoolboys’. From 1964 to the present, there’s been a grand total of one (1) British prime minister who might fit that description, and that man’s walking around with the name David Cameron.
It’s all perfectly unserious. Were Quebec to depart Canada or Flanders to depart Belgium, they’d improve their local autonomy and render the political life of the residual country less cumbersome. Scotland leaving the UK accomplishes not much of anything bar to flip the bird at Westminster.
“Cameron” being a Scottish name, just to clarify.
The politics of proclaiming oneself a victim has really gotten out of hand. It is hard to imagine a less victimized country than Scotland.
“Scotland leaving the UK accomplishes not much of anything bar to flip the bird at Westminster.”
A worthy deed in itself. As my father used to tell me, “never trust Perfidious Albion!”.
#5
Just exhausting to read.
#5: She’s beautiful enough to be a 4th Charlie’s Angel, which I find really relatable about her. I’m feeling a lot of relief. She could easily have been homely – Hollywood is so unpredictable.
#3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7kAEnqe74
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