Formerly known as "Vegan Vanguard": the scarf of a revolutionary wrapped around the neck of a bureaucrat.

When I'm talking about the professorial class as an aristocracy...

Shelfless Strat

The whole world's history is encompassed within the life of just one man...

The whole world's history is encompassed within the life of just one man: at some point, we stop complaining about the evils society has created in us and we commence creating our own societies —and our own evils.

On Dutch Angles.

I am standing upright.  It is the world that tilts.

BLM, Four Years Later.

At this moment, you get no google search results at all for "the American people are incapable of looking backward" —the sudden death of JFK and the long duration of the investigations (and government reports) that ensued afterward was the context in which I remember the phrase being used.

Almost apposite, but not quite:

"Different times call for different leadership," Pence said. "The American people don’t look backwards; they look forward. … I don’t think my old running mate is going to be the Republican nominee for president."

Takeaways from CNN’s town hall with Mike Pence
CNN, June 8, 2023 

 

 

Nash Park, Victoria's #1 stand up comedian, says Eisel Mazard is a really bad guy.

And here's the link to the video in question.  Title: Is Instagram ruining stand up comedy?  Subtitle: Nash Park is going to beat me up.  Probably.  https://youtu.be/IdF_RTySXXk?si=q1ne_GtnMqY0Lq9N

The excuses are harder to quit than the thing itself, part 999.

And if you were wondering... the link at the end of the first image, above, is this: 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Mqevt761s

Shakespeare, Voltaire, me: our generation is no different.

Comedy is not therapy.  Tragedy even less so.

To be the sun, rather than a shadow.

Brand new ancient problems. No context necessary.