Fred Little
@doclittle
Global Affairs, American Literature, East Asian Studies. Active practitioner of Koryū Budō, Bukkyō, Shintō. Lapsed poet. Struggling Hammond Organist. Former Academic Administrator @ Columbia University & NJIT.
The mediocre alterkocher lame duck senior senator from Queens is as much of a mendacious religionist anti-secular whack job as the meretricious alterkocher lame duck President from Queens.
The thing that drove me craziest about the Iliad and the Odyssey was Athena's epithet: "ox-browed." Clearly meant as a compliment, but I just didn't get it. Until I was helping set up a panel discussion that included NPR's Nina Totenberg. Powerful. Awesome. "Beautiful" would fall short.
So I was doing a martial arts demo at the Missouri Botanical Garden a few years back. My host had special access, was giving me an inside tour of things usually off-limits, and we're getting along wonderfully. Til our golf cart passes Frank Stella's sculpture, "Stubbs' Supper." Host went wild. 1/x
This particular print has been vexing me almost every day since mid-1984. Bothered me. Made me look. Still will. Which piece took you under its tutelage?
For a good look at where the Western and Eastern transmissions of medical practice that may be "reunited" by this new verification of "interstitium" parted company, & what was gained and lost in the process (with a fantastic Sino-Japanese/English glossary), you can't do much better than Kuriyama.
I would add that even if there is an escape from human Justice, there is no escape from one's own mind. Inasmuch as even "legal wars" cause soldiers profound psychological damage & moral injury, there is a certainty that "war crimes & crimes against humanity" will do an order of magnitude worse.
Republicans are really going to entirely lose it when they come face to face with the joy of a majority of Americans on the occasion of Donald Trump being declared dead, the destruction of every monument to him, the complete expropriation of his family fortune, and the consequences for his progeny.
A view from one of the civilian leads on the terminated program, who is also generally a v. good source of factual information and thoughtful analysis on a wide range of nat-sec issues.
Civil Rights Attorney Conrad Lynn called. I heard him say "I knew Thurgood Marshall. Thurgood Marshall was a friend of mine! James Clyburn is no Thurgood Marshall ...." and then there was just static
This appeared in the feed as a rare and welcome moment of clarity and genuine commitment from embattled center-right NY17 Dem hopeful Cait Conley. Then, as I clicked to read the entire thread, I discovered that it had been deleted less than 20 minutes after posting. Extremely weird.
Impressive presence & presentation by Effie Phillips Staley 2night in Nyack. Grounded in real life experience and clear-eyed, as fully aware of the scale of the issues we face as their day-to-day impact on working people, all the skills you want in a representative & still natural and humane? Rare!
On a happier note, the new WILD MAGNOLIAS release from Tipitina's Record Club is a revelation! Side 1, unreleased studio outtakes. Side 2, BITCHES BREW Goes to Mardi Gras LIVE. Essential document. Willie Tee, Bo Dollis, & Monk Boudreaux @ the birth of New Orleans Funk! tipitinasrecordclub.com
This is why Orangetown Town Supervisor Theresa Kenny MUST RESIGN. There's no "it was a poorly considered off-the-cuff joke" out for hoping a US Navy veteran gets swept up by ICE & thrown into a Concentration Camp while they sort it out. That's Klan-Nazi talk. #UnfitToServe #DepravedIndifference
In #NY17, Mike Lawler is on the pad of the for-profit Concentration Camp operators at GEO.