Why don’t we try staying home?
Why don’t we try not to roam?
What if we threw a party or two,
And asked only you and me?
I long to sit by the fireside,
My girl, with me sitting by’er side,
Wouldn’t that be nice?
We’ve tried ev’ry thing else twice,
So why don’t we try staying home?
~Cole Porter, lyric for “Why Don’t We Try Staying Home?” (cut from Fifty Million Frenchmen)
Why don’t we try staying home?Why don’t we try not to roam?
What if we threw a party or two,
And asked only you and me?
I long to sit by the fireside,
My girl, with me sitting by’er side,
Wouldn’t that be nice?
We’ve tried ev’ry thing else twice,
So why don’t we try staying home?
~Cole Porter, lyric for “Why Don’t We Try Staying Home?” (cut from Fifty Million Frenchmen)
Why You Should Read Books You Hate - The New York Times
About 24.4 inches by 33.6 inches, it’s tempera on wood panel, and the provenance line says “he perhaps bought it from Messrs Colnaghi, London.” Interestingly, the painting was “formerly attributed to Mainardi, Sebastiano” but reattributed by E. Fahy in 1998.
As the museum says online, “Domenico Ghirlandaio was the master of one of the biggest, busiest and most successful workshops in Florence at the end of the 15th century”–he taught Michelangelo, among others. There is a bit more about the painter and this work here.
Via Newsweek: “God and E.T.: Vatican Astronomer Would Baptize Aliens If They Ask.”
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Philosophers, savants, sages, and intellectuals have always been attracted to power. But what are the delusional propensities that led so many to embrace dictators? Dictators We Attract
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SILENT SPRINGSKI: The Soviet Era’s Deadliest Scientist Is Regaining Popularity in Russia.
Although it’s impossible to say for sure, Trofim Lysenko probably killed more human beings than any individual scientist in history. Other dubious scientific achievements have cut thousands upon thousands of lives short: dynamite, poison gas, atomic bombs. But Lysenko, a Soviet biologist, condemned perhaps millions of people to starvation through bogus agricultural research—and did so without hesitation. Only guns and gunpowder, the collective product of many researchers over several centuries, can match such carnage.
Why Hoover’s FBI Investigated ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ For Communist Influences…
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Author Of ‘Cat Person’ Lands $1 Million+ Book Deal
Kristen Roupenian, whose New Yorker short story about a 21st-century-style bad date has become a viral sensation this month, has been signed by Scout Press for two books, a short story collection under the title You Know You Want This and an as-yet-untitled novel.