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Monthly Archives: October 2011

The Incoherence of the Incoherence.

23-Oct-11

Conceição da Barra GOP Senator Lindsey Graham advocating infrastructure spending in Libya, and opposing it in the United States.  The similarity to ancient Rome, which broke down under the incoherence of limited government at home and unlimited empire abroad, is remarkable as usual.

Color, color, color.

02-Oct-11

Ardeşen Taken last week.  Should be even better this week.

Inspecting County Road 47.

02-Oct-11

[On my computer the photos are not coming out where they ought to, but I’m a bit too busy to fix it right now.] Several local roads have been closed since the hurricane, but word has gotten around that some are in fact passable: you drive around the roadblock and find that the road is […]

The Jewish Girl’s Song, by Hjalmar Procope.

02-Oct-11

A very nice poem, part of the play Belshazzar’s Feast, where it gets a beautiful setting from Sibelius.  An improvement on the psalm.  Original text follows the translation. I sat by the rivers of Babylon And wept with my brothers, day and night. And my sisters were moved by my tears, By my brothers’ deep […]