Fred Thompson on the Economy
h/t Theo
The crowd at HuffPost is in a huff about Fred Thompson's "Sarcastic Holiday Cheer" because they got dibs on sarcasm; in perpetuity. In high school, back in the day, we had an expression for this: they can dish it out, but they can't take it.
These days, more than I have ever thought before in my six plus decades, I see the wisdom in, for example, George Santayana's aphorism, "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it." In the case of young adults especially, it seems to me that they don't so much ignore it as they are simply ignorant of it. And not just history, but also government, economics, geography, literature, classical music, logic, not to mention science, math, and simple things like spelling. I recently read a post about advertising by a young blogger in which the word "buy" appeared several times, naturally; only it was spelled "by". One misspelling — it's a typo; two — it's curious; three or more — it's ignorance.
The classic line uttered by Bette Davis as the imperious Margo Channing in All About Eve was, "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!" It could be a long one too.
h/t Theo
The crowd at HuffPost is in a huff about Fred Thompson's "Sarcastic Holiday Cheer" because they got dibs on sarcasm; in perpetuity. In high school, back in the day, we had an expression for this: they can dish it out, but they can't take it.
These days, more than I have ever thought before in my six plus decades, I see the wisdom in, for example, George Santayana's aphorism, "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it." In the case of young adults especially, it seems to me that they don't so much ignore it as they are simply ignorant of it. And not just history, but also government, economics, geography, literature, classical music, logic, not to mention science, math, and simple things like spelling. I recently read a post about advertising by a young blogger in which the word "buy" appeared several times, naturally; only it was spelled "by". One misspelling — it's a typo; two — it's curious; three or more — it's ignorance.
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” — A. EinsteinWorst of all, they haven't a clue to what they don't know. Even many graduates of our top-echelon universities are good impersonators of blithering idiots. Read I Am Charlotte Simmons, a 2004 novel by Tom Wolfe, for some possible reasons why this may be so. And in case you haven't noticed, most of these blithering idiots are of the liberal persuasion.
The classic line uttered by Bette Davis as the imperious Margo Channing in All About Eve was, "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!" It could be a long one too.
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