Thursday, December 31, 2015
Stopping in .... almost New Year
we're going to be getting this site back under way in the coming year. 2015 was a tough one, perhaps 2016 will be better.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Word of the Day
came across a reference in an article by the always great Victor Davis Hanson
Dr. Hanson is one of those who is always able to teach me something, and gives some hope, faint perhaps but hope, that the civilization we imagined we had, is not totally lost. What one has once done, one can aspire to do again, right?
The word is "ochlocracy", a term I confess I'd not previously encountered. A pity, it captures so well the sad state of our world and our nation. Read the definition here, and then consider the mobs in Ferguson, or in a hundred other places. Places where the threadbare lie of "hands up -- don't shoot" and "Saint Trayvon" and all the rest are known to be lies, but nonetheless one points that out to his own personal peril.
Dr. Hanson is one of those who is always able to teach me something, and gives some hope, faint perhaps but hope, that the civilization we imagined we had, is not totally lost. What one has once done, one can aspire to do again, right?
The word is "ochlocracy", a term I confess I'd not previously encountered. A pity, it captures so well the sad state of our world and our nation. Read the definition here, and then consider the mobs in Ferguson, or in a hundred other places. Places where the threadbare lie of "hands up -- don't shoot" and "Saint Trayvon" and all the rest are known to be lies, but nonetheless one points that out to his own personal peril.
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