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Crying racism is the first refuge of the moron. Libertarianism is applied autism. If, as immigrationists often claim, the economy benefits so much from low skill workers, why continue to spend money educating native born Americans? Think of the economic boom to result if we stopped funding high schools and colleges in order to increase the homegrown pool of unskilled labor. I dream that someday in the far future the lost art of minstrelsy will be revived. Last time I was in a Las Vegas casino I noticed the hookers were dressed less whorish than the female tourists. Horse betting isn't gambling, it's pari-mutuel wagering. Successful betting requires knowledge, intellect, and the ability to evaluate and take risks. One learns that reality is too complex to be reduced to a mechanical system. It's a gentleman’s sport, of great tradition. When wagering you compete with other bettors, as opposed to passively sitting in the stands unthinkingly adulating various egomaniacal million...
Why do people in 16th-17th century woodcuts and engravings always look like villains and rogues. I'm assuming that this pair are actually perfectly respectable patients.
ReplyDeleteNo one looks good under that sort of treatment. I would like to imagine that as soon as it was done, they went right back to dancing in their Pointy Boots. Ole'!
ReplyDeleteInteresting observation. The ones that don't really stand out. Disease burden, and maybe people were in general uglier back then (see also this).
ReplyDeleteAmong other things, I think the guy on the left has scrofula.
Have to disagree with Anonymous. A Vermeer portrait of a young woman being trepanned would merely look like Scarlett Johansson with a slight eye strain. The same girl in a woodcut, however, would resemble a deranged street hag willing to sell her body for a few dirty Gilders. But I do agree with his or her point about the rehabilitation potential of pointy boots
ReplyDeleteFez, his pointy boot reference was to a video I linked to in a comment on another site.
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