We live in a kind of false paradigm of “self-reliance.” I don’t need to blame Waldo for this but perhaps he does bear a good bit of the burden for at the very least his…
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Power Agent in Repose
The previous post offers a kind of temperamental and philosophical comparison between two our most fecund writers and thinkers. The section out of Emerson is representative of both his power and his risible ambivalence. This…
The Dart’s the Thing: Melville on Emerson
“All men live enveloped in whale line.” Self-Reliance (Waldo) 1841 Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to…
When I Was a Kid We Had to Call People
This is a guest post by Sarah, originally published on Hundred Moon. Yes, when I was a kid not only was Pluto a planet (my very educated mother just served us nine pies), but we had…
Day in Photos: From Sunrise to Sunset
A Day I’ll tell you how the sun rose, A ribbon at a time Among the non-modifiable factors, on which it Is necessary, however, the surgery of the doctor and/or the cialis online (GTP) into…
Day in Photos: Both Sides of the Cape
[pictures are from Ryder Beach (Wellfleet) and Nauset Beach] “The sand-bank–the backbone of the Cape–rose directly from the beach to the height of a hundred feet or more above he ocean. It was with singular…
Beer, Bratwurst and Better Internet Privacy Policies
This morning I stumbled upon (in the un-trademarked sense of the phrase) this article on Search Engine Watch, German State Bans Facebook Pages, Like Buttons. The German Independent Center for Privacy Protection has required local (German)…
New Yorker Spins a Grimm Fairy Tale: The Monster Hunt for Osama
In the mood for a good monster story, or tired of reading good journalism? (Cue laugh track.) I highly recommend picking up this week’s New Yorker for some good, old fashioned propaganda. In the latest…