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Comment on QOTD (2010-10-12) by Sousou

Sousou — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:18:26 +0000

This is just the perfect awsner for all of us

Comment on New Feature: Links! by Jessy

Jessy — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:07:56 +0000

Marty,You are so right; a brekon link is one of the worst things we can send as an entrepreneur. I get so let down when I get a really anticipate link only to find it takes me nowhere! Interesting article! Also, I would like you to know that I really enjoy your newsletters and am excited about your start over. Hope you enjoy every moment of it. Have a wonderful day.

Comment on QOTD (2011-11-04) by Raj

Raj — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:04:51 +0000

Yes, he was risgened to death. As for arrogance, he was being much less arrogant than the other people in the courtroom supposing to know so much when in actuality they knew nothing.

Comment on Saving Souls; or, In Which We Tie Some Threads Together in Attempting a New Justification of the Humanities by Roni

Roni — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:12:29 +0000

. “In fact, I acerppiate the support of the community, because I was one of those troops.”Manning said his personal feelings can’t be allowed to trump his responsibility to the community. If Stacey Kelley is allowed to keep her sign, Manning said, there’s nothing to prevent other residents from putting up signs that have negative messages about the troops.”Move, Stacey. Move far, far away. Although it is your home, your anchor, it appears the gated community came first and you came second. And as a public service to you, and the rest of us, the gated communities in the suburbs’ ilk do provide a service; they actually put up a gate to tell us what sensitivities and sensibilities won’t be allowed into their lives. There is no protection from the righteously intolerant, Stacey. You sacrifice your husband, they fear sacrificing their temporary view.But if you move, then you provide a greater good, for you will create some level of chaos within the gated community. The relative degrees of soul versus condo rules in all of them will be tested. And their will be strife. And it will be their strife. But if you stay, it will be your strife. And you and your husband deserve so much, much more.Thank you, Stacey. And thanks and prayers to your husband.JPM

Comment on Why I Write: An Introduction by Emily

Emily — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:18:07 +0000

Thanks so much, Alex. I really appreciate that coming from you. And, of course, it takes all kinds of voices saying all kinds of things to make the world better. Let a thousand flowers bloom!

Comment on Why I Write: An Introduction by Alex

Alex — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:05:17 +0000

This is a wonderful essay / speech / whatever. It’s taken me until this year to finally acknowledge that my contribution to the world will be through the written word. I’ve at various times fashioned myself a leader and an activist and a protester, but in the end, I feel that, for some of us, writing will always be our most powerful tool both for impacting society and for fashioning ourselves. Thanks for sharing.

Comment on Past and Present; or, Sesame Street and Lilies: A Scene of Academic Life by A Year in Review: Lessons Learned and Things to Be Done; or, On What Matters « Worthless Drivel

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:02:23 +0000

[...] position: that not everyone needs to be a humanist, but that we do as humans need to believe that some people should be. That sublimity is something that we’re capable of as humans, and that beauty is something we [...]

Comment on Saving Souls; or, In Which We Tie Some Threads Together in Attempting a New Justification of the Humanities by A Year in Review: Lessons Learned and Things to Be Done; or, On What Matters « Worthless Drivel

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:02:19 +0000

[...] like that of political economy. To get there, I had to work through modes of apology and of hysteria. But I ended the year rather at Mary Beard’s position: that not everyone needs to be a [...]

Comment on Apologia Pro Studio Humanitatum by A Year in Review: Lessons Learned and Things to Be Done; or, On What Matters « Worthless Drivel

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:02:16 +0000

[...] of another discourse, like that of political economy. To get there, I had to work through modes of apology and of hysteria. But I ended the year rather at Mary Beard’s position: that not everyone [...]

Comment on On Responsible Drinking and Reverse Culture Shock; or, In Which Adulthood Is Again Pondered by A Year in Review: Lessons Learned and Things to Be Done; or, On What Matters « Worthless Drivel

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:02:12 +0000

[...] I noted this year that, for all its faults, Oxford is very good at doing this, and I noted that Princeton is rather less so, but that it’s worth working to make Princeton [...]