Showing posts with label Samuel Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samuel Johnson. Show all posts
Friday, December 5, 2025

Samuel Johnson doesn't have our meaning of the word, but it does appear right after faeces in his dictionary lol

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  Gay slur having cultural renaissance...  
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Samuel Johnson: "The whole fabrick and scheme of the English language is Gothick or Teutonic; it is a dialect of that tongue, which prevails over all the northern countries of Europe"

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Monday, July 19, 2021

LOL, Ben Stein, cheerleader for "corporations are people", has decided that America has only just now become a fascist state

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Now, in the year 2021, the iron curtain has come down hard. With Big Internet Tech and the White House now admittedly colluding to identify...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

Does Carson Holloway for The Federalist even live in America 2020, torn by $2 billion in damages from rioting and looting?

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 From his essay here : Tocqueville was certainly correct that the dire legacy of slavery would not be eliminated immediately upon its abolit...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

William Voegeli doesn't know that Oliver Goldsmith's perhaps most famous axiom was written by Samuel Johnson

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Are we therefore wrong to look to an Oliver Goldsmith, and then to a Donald Trump, "to lead and inspire"? Here : Stipula...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Jim Cramer reads fellow Democrat Tim Geithner and suddenly discovers frugality: both men are only five years behind the curve

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THE MARKET IS UP 11% SINCE CRAMER SAID SELL IN SEPTEMBER 2013 Jim Cramer, quoted  here : "I think America's gone frugal. ...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Mortgaged States Their Grandsires' Wreaths Regret

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"Yet Reason frowns on war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name, And mortgaged states their grandsires' wrea...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Corporations Have Been Considered Persons Since At Least 1775

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And not only have corporations been considered persons since at least 1775, the original 13 American Colonies were considered corporations w...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Republicans Vote To Continue Spying On Americans, Trashing Fourth Amendment

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Wired.com has the story here . The so-called conservatives, Republicans on Wednesday voted once again to subvert the constitutional principl...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

David Stockman Misses An Opportunity: The Warfare State IS The Welfare State

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The New York Times is only happy enough to run an op-ed from David Stockman, here , attacking the phony conservatism of the Republican Party...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

This Idaho Billboard Doesn't Quite Capture It For Me

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Instead of "Kills Thousands With His Foreign Policy," I suggest more to the point would be: "Murders Americans Abroad With Dr...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Samuel Johnson For Our Overly Political Times

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"How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consign...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Sage Advice

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Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray, Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, Where is bliss? and which the way? Thus I...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

In Everlasting Debt

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The recent decline was almost completely the result of defaults written off by banks and credit card companies, not of consumers paying down...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Cool, as in Deceiver

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  An adjective of Dutch derivation, signifying: neither zealous, nor ardent; neither angry, nor fond; in short without passion, a deceiver. ...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

War is the Father of Everything

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                      From the very long term perspective, the spending on World War II which supposedly got us out of the Great Depression ...