It's good to see that VDH was awarded one of these.
A classic Vermonter asks a classic Vermont question: "Have I created a monster which I'm begging to help me preserve or am I just a nuisance to people?" Webster said. "It's a big question." I say that it's too bad more people don't ask themselves the same question. Ya gotta love this codger.
Women sexually abused as kids make more money.
Al Gore gets seriously serious green. TigerHawk. Sounds like a filthy Capitalist to me.
Thomas Sowell on "making a difference," quoted in a No Pasaran piece on how the UN defines poverty:
I would be scared to death to "make a difference" in the way pilots fly airliners or brain surgeons operate. Any difference I might make could be fatal to many people.
Making a difference makes sense only if you are convinced that you have mastered the subject at hand to the point where any difference you might make would be for the better.
Very few people have mastered anything that well beyond their own limited circle of knowledge. Even fewer seem to think far enough ahead to consider that question. Yet hardly a day goes by without news of some uninformed busybodies on one crusade or another.
Darfur for Dummies. Cinnamon
Cultural deterioration in a mediocracy, a quote:
If cultural deterioration is acknowledged in a mediocracy, it is blamed on marketisation. The implication is that cultural products are somehow traded more than they used to be, which is specious. Culture has always been bought and sold, and would not get produced at all without someone to pay for it.
What is different about a mediocratic market for culture is that purchasing power is in the hands of the mass consumer and the state, rather than those of a small elite. The characteristics of the prevailing culture will therefore reflect the tastes of the mass, and the ideological preferences of the political class, rather than the tastes of the bourgeoisie.
Whole thing here. h/t, David Thompson.
Speech recognition comes of age.
Photo: Infidel, from Theo
