This is the affirmation on which democracy rests … [W]e can all be responsible … We become what we do. So does the world we live in, if enough of us do it — whether “it” be good or detestable. This is the burden of freedom: that it is all our fault or our credit.
“Good books in bad times (for all loyalty ends)
Can turn their backs on you, like close friends
Who don’t know half the truth, and from the shelf
Cut dead the miserable anorexic self
That’s lost its appetite for words, that finds
Print inflicts snow-dazzle, and the mind’s
Capsized by logic, and one paragraph
Of the funniest man on earth can’t raise a laugh.
To stop loving, or being loved, is to stop
Reading, is to stop. Woodland becomes backdrop
And weather mere performance. Then books stare
Like stuffed predators with a blameless air
Of enmity.
Men, women, you dog-eared lovers
With wine-stained pages and much drabber covers
Than when you were brightly bought, before you secede
From the old union, reread, reread.”
It may be James Lasdun's New
Yorker opus, "My Dentist’s Murder Trial." The subhed?
"Adultery, false identities, and a lethal sedation: A baroque courtroom
drama unfolds in upstate New York."
A tangled tale of bank liquidation in Venice Bruegel
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The World Might Be Going To Hell In A Handbasket, But These Designers Are Trying To Make It Look Pretty
For instance, at the London Design Biennale, “Guatemala, which ties for sixth place in the Global Emotions Report, will show an installation
about the community action taking place in Santa Catarina Palopó. This town on the volcanic shores of Lake Atitlán is reinventing itself as a kind of conceptual art, using the paintbrush to boost civic pride and tourism. Its residents have become involved in a two-year scheme in which they are painting their houses in bold Mayan patterns, with a strict but vibrant palette of five colours sourced from local textiles.”
“Our editors pick the 50 companies that best combine innovative technology with an effective business model. Each year we identify 50 companies creating new opportunities by combining important technologies and business savvy. Some are large companies that seem to be growing ever larger, likeAmazon and Apple. Others, like IBM, or General Electric are old-guard giants betting on technology renewal. And the list is full of ambitious startups likeSpaceX, which is changing the economics of space travel with reusable rockets; Face ++, a pioneer in face recognition technology; and additive-manufacturing firms Carbon andDesktop Metal. For additional perspective on the list, which starts here, please see our essay, “It Pays to Be Smart.”
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The invective flies
"Vicious," "vindictive,"
"bullying," "pig" and "disgusting" were among the
words used on "Morning Joe" Friday as a show and a co-host that has
been the target of the president's ire fought back after his instantly notorious
tweets.
They were among the words.
In what has curdled into a
nasty soap opera, Mika
Brzezinski and Joe
Scarborough opened the formal counterattack by writing an op-ed for The Washington Post that opened,
"We are both certain that the man is not mentally equipped to continue
watching our show, 'Morning 'MEdia Dragon' Joe.'”
It cited an array of
factual inaccuracies, including confronting his most unseemly declaration.
"Putting aside Mr.
Trump’s never-ending obsession with women’s blood, Mika and her face were
perfectly intact, as pictures from that night reveal. And though it is no one’s
business, the president’s petulant personal attack against yet another woman’s
looks compels us to report that Mika has never had a face-lift."
The duo alluded very
indirectly at the end of their op-ed to their de facto about-face on Trump.
They seemed to be snuggling up to him not that very long ago and, especially
Scarborough, underscoring access to him. Now they are a daily rhetorical firing
squad, rebuking him incessantly and calling him mentally unstable.
"Perhaps that is why
we were neither shocked nor insulted by the president’s personal attack,"
they concluded. "The Donald Trump we knew before the campaign was a flawed
character but one who still seemed capable of keeping his worst instincts in
check."
The show's first hour was a
rhetorical warm-up act for the engaged co-hosts, who start a vacation today and
surfaced at the top of the second hour for comments. The show didn't take any
particularly high road initially.
There was blowhard ad man Donny Deutsch
wearing dark shades and making a bad joke about cosmetic surgery. He then made
an irrelevant point about his not being an NBC employee, so "I'm going to
go thug."
He called Trump "a
pig...physically disgusting...obviously not well. A misogynist...he's not
mentally OK...he's disgusting to look at." It wasn't C-SPAN.
Willie Geist, subbing as host, asked whether such a response "doesn't
lower political discourse?" Deutsch didn't care.
Journalist-historian Jon Meacham offered
a more contemplative precis devoid of the inflammatory. Trump "punches
when he feels cornered...He punches and lashes out." He spoke of the
public implications of such behavior, the violation of norms and questions
about whether such a person was fit to deal with truly important matters, like
nuclear arms.
He also noted the
potentially depressing reality that none of this rhetorical fusillade would
impact Trump's political base. "No. They will see this broadcast and this
network as part of the problem."
The duo surfaced on their
New York set. She said, "It's unbelievably alarming that this president is
so easily played by a cable news host. What is this saying to our allies,
saying to our enemies?"
By being played, she
referred to jokes she made Thursday about a Washington Post story that Trump
had put up phony Time magazine covers of himself at various Trump properties.
Scarborough said he'd
received emails, calls and texts from around the world "expressing
shock." And he asserted, once again, that his White House sources claim
that they are anxious about Trump's mental state.
He said it "would be
better if he (Trump) turned his 80-inch television set on 'Fox & Friends'
and stayed there." He claimed that the Trump he knew "for 10 or 12
years" was a different person and "in on the joke."
The couple also asserted
that the National Enquirer sought to "blackmail" them, as Scarborough
put it, unless they made up with Trump. They did not, and what they deemed an
innocuous story then ran. The supermarket tabloid and Trump are well known to
have a cozy relationship.
So once again, we assume
that Trump has gone a bridge too far, crossed a line of decency or political
viability. Remember the other times? Arab-Americans allegedly cheering 9/11, John McCain not
being a hero, nastiness toward Megyn
Kelly or running his sexist mouth on "Access
Hollywood."
And the press calls him to
account, whether it's fact-checkers working overtime or an army of columnists,
pundits or TV hosts venting. But Trump proceeds apace, appealing to his base
and not heeding the traditional players.
He is, he seems to forget,
the president. He could just not say a word. But he is so needy and vain, he
fights back.
A caller on Wisconsin Public
Radio asked me Thursday why the press doesn't focus on "important
things" like the economy. He's right, even if Friday morning again seemed
like a Trump-inspired, rush-hour gapers block one just can avoid. So you slow
down and stare.
What Tim Cook really
made
"Don’t be fooled
by Tim Cook’s
2016 reported pay of $8.75 million, which ranked the Apple Inc. chief executive
officer in the bottom third of all CEOs in the S&P 500. Cook, 56, actually
took home $145 million, almost all of it from awards granted back in
2011." (Bloomberg)
May you grow like a carrot- with your head in the ground!
- Variety is the spice of life. William Cowper, English poet (1731–1800)[26]
- Walk softly but carry a big stick. Theodore Roosevelt 1900 in letter relating an old African proverb[27]
- Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs[1]
- Waste not, want not[1]
- What cannot be cured must be endured[1]
- What goes around, comes around
- What goes up must come down[1]
- What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts[1]
- What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander[1]
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do. St. Ambrose 347AD[28]
- When it rains it pours.
- When the cat is away, the mice will play[1]
- When the going gets tough, the tough get going[1]
- When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak[1]
- When three women gather, it becomes noisy.
- What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over[1]
- Where there is a will there is a way[1]
- Where there is muck there is brass[1]
- Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.[1]
- While there is life there is hope[1]
- Whom the Gods love die young[1]
- Why keep a dog and bark yourself?[1]
- With a responsibility comes great power
- Woman is the root of both good and evil[1]
- Wonders will never cease[1]
- Work expands so as to fill the time available[1]
- Worrying never did anyone any good[1]
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- You ain't seen nothing yet[1]
- You are never too old to learn[1]
- You are what you eat[1]
- You can have too much of a good thing[1]
- You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink[1]
- You cannot have your cake and eat it too[1]
- VYou cannot get blood out of a stone[1]
- You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear[1]
- You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs[1]
- You cannot make bricks without straw[1]
- You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds[1]
- You cannot teach an old dog new tricks[1]
- You cannot judge a book by its cover[1]
- You cannot win them all[1]
- You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar[1]
- You pay your money and you take your choice[1]
- Youth is wasted on the young[1]
- You must have rocks in your head[1]
- You've got to separate the wheat from the chaff[1]
