“To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another’s profit,
And work another’s gain.”
From “The White Man’s Burden”
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Monthly Archives: January 2008
On Bush’s State of the Union Address and the subject of Iraq
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
On Heath Ledger’s death which the police speculate was suicide
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
“There is a certain darkness into which the soul of the young man sometimes descends - a horror of desolation, abandonment, and realised worthlessness, which is one of the most real hells in which we are compelled to walk. I know of what I speak. This is due to a variety of causes, the chief [...]
On the on-going war in Iraq
Monday, January 21, 2008
A Dead Statesman (1924)
“I could not dig, I dared not rob,
And so I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue,
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale will serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?”
On the impact Bill Clinton’s temper may have on his wife’s campaign
Saturday, January 19, 2008
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.”
On the “Beauty and the Blonde,” a gallery exhibit at Washington University in St. Louis
Saturday, January 19, 2008
“But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: ‘It’s clever, but is it art?’”
For Sir Edmund Hillary on the day of his death
Thursday, January 10, 2008
[T]he Himalaya is “a revelation of all might, majesty, dominion and power, henceforth, and for ever, in color, form, and substance indescribable.”
On Mike Huckabee winning In Iowa with the aid of evangelical voters
Friday, January 4, 2008
“Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem — for purely religious purposes, of course — to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.”
Advice to the candidates
Thursday, January 3, 2008
“I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.”
From “The Elephant’s Child” (1902)
On the elections and the predictions and thoughts of the candidates
Thursday, January 3, 2008
“A man’s mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.”