Jonathan Cohen
@jkcohen
Jonathan Cohen is a literacy tutor. He's been a frequent contributor to the Santa Monica Review and Citric Acid. A Community of Writers alum (2004), he and his wife have proofread the Santa Monica Review for 22 years.
The Odyssey: With all the furor, why not revive Monteverdi's 1640 opera "Il Ritorno D'Ulisse In Patria?"
In 2017, my wife and I made a "Poetree" for our literacy program's annual picnic. It consisted of a carpet-core trunk, fake blossoms and branches from Michael's, and about 120 green Astrobrite "leaves." Each leaf had a short poem on it, and the guests could pluck one leaf apiece.
A simple Google on "Catholic Just War Doctrine" gave me this: www.catholic.com/qa/what-is-a... /1
As I remember, the Times cut loose a huge swath of copyeditors and fact-checkers to make sure that no story would ever have to be approved by more than three people. Cost savings plus speed for the Web news cycle!
It's called a fleuron - a decorative element that is either part of a font or part of a font made up of fleurons. Many of the classic fonts, like Scotch Modern, include their own fleurons as glyphs.
It's like with a dog. A dog can make a "guilty face" for their owners when they sense their owner is angry, but the dog does not feel guilt; it is simply a configuration of mouth and eye muscles that gets them through their owner's immediate anger. Image: Yoannis, Pixabay.
Protest by Iranian-Americans yesterday. They want regime change for Iran, too, since Trump is already up and about. Nobody's talked to Trump, Vance, or Hegseth to tell them that the two-war doctrine was folded during the Biden Administration. It still wouldn't stop them.
Of all the great New York institutions Donald Trump could have chosen to emulate, he had to pick Leonard's of Great Neck.
"This laughter is the laughter of those who consider themselves to be at a safe remove from all the wretched, for whom the pain of the living is not real." It's all around us now.
There wasn't always room for due process in the world back in the fifteenth century. We have had ample time to improve, but our villains are worse than Clarence's Murderers. At least the Murderers had scruples that needed to be quelled.
My old prayer book, used five days a week for five years, is in poor condition and has to go to special storage. It is on the right. The new, shiny prayer book is on the left. It's just a tool, and what matters is how you use it. I hope it will help tend me towards the good.
Several people have taken the "population drop" idea as a eugenicist rapture-like Muskism, in which non-billionaires are immiserated to the point of nonexistence. Could this instead be related to most nations falling far short of their replacement rate, which is legit demography?
Michelle, my close relative (msfledermaus.com), in response to our current straits, has embroidered a War Snail.