“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
“But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before” Two houses are going into the fields next door. From what I could find out, those fields have been open for over two hundred years. We could once walk the ridge from Warwick Furnace coming […]
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They bake cakes, pies, biscuits, patisserie, and concoctions of flour and eggs I have never encountered and cannot pronounce. They do all this in a white tent on a rented, posh UK estate in a place of bees, often rain, and a green lawn that surrounds them like something out of our dreams of paradise. A pair of judges, Paul Hollywood, a name I would not ask you to believe […]
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Let’s dispense with what this is not and with historical analogies that only obscure. We are not in an American Weimer nor in any variation of a pre-war Hitlerian Germany. The populace is not in the grip of a fear of Bolshevism brought on by a world shaking revolution in a nearby country and street fighting between Communists and members of the Republican Party in every city of the nation. […]
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Their wings in flight span 5 feet. When one of their lookouts sees a hawk, they somehow signal the great flock, today close to 100,000, and they rise, a word that does not really work. The word fails. They make a great rhooshooshing sound, like a wave coming fast over a shingled beach. The wave keeps coming for one two three minutes. The sound keeps building. They fly in enormous […]
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