I recycle my animosity toward old people and my fascination with news items involving apes or monsters. Which is sad. Though not as sad as Thomas Friedman.
Has Teddy D. ever explained why he chose to work in a prison, instead of say the suburbs, or chooses to go on vacation to hellholes like North Korea or Zimbabwe even though he has the means to vacation anywhere he wants? He's a glutton for misery.
A Mustiphino has been spotted wandering the halls of Congress. The deranged babblings of an SPLC apparatchik inspired me to coin the word hatefact . Hatefacts are unquestionable facts about immigrants , blacks , women , homosexualists , et al., that the SPLC and those sharing its ideological inclinations deem “hate” or “hateful” to mention. UPDATE: It seems I unwittingly stole the idea for the word hatefact from Peter Brimelow, who used the term “hate facts” in a speech last November .
The Illustrious House of Ramires , by Eça de Queirós. A novel about an ineffectual nobleman writing an historical novel about his heroic ancestors. Queirós has been called the Portuguese Flaubert. Large Fees and How to Get Them : a book for the private use of physicians , by Albert V. Harmon, M.D. If you practice early 20th medicine and want large fees, this book is essential reading. If you don’t, there are still lessons in its amusing and unsentimental discussion of various topics, like in the chapter “The Bugbear of Ethics”, where Harmon advises “ethics in its place is a good thing...But there is such a thing as overdoing the ethical proposition”. Histrionics: Three Plays and Over All the Mountain Tops , by Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard once said “I despise actors, indeed I hate them, for they ally themselves at the least sign of danger with the audience and betray the author and completely identify with stupidity and feeble-mindedness. Actors are the destroyers and exte...
That is very, very true. Hello Theodore Dalrymple! (currently recycling his views of tattooed youth for the millionth time).
ReplyDeleteI recycle my animosity toward old people and my fascination with news items involving apes or monsters. Which is sad. Though not as sad as Thomas Friedman.
ReplyDeleteHas Teddy D. ever explained why he chose to work in a prison, instead of say the suburbs, or chooses to go on vacation to hellholes like North Korea or Zimbabwe even though he has the means to vacation anywhere he wants? He's a glutton for misery.