Cultural Offering

"The inhabitants have a right to take their amusements in a lawful way."

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Today’s background music.

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Summer. “I came. I saw. I rented,” wrote Brahms to a friend.

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Music for July. Tchaikovsky from The Seasons - July: The Song of the Reaper.

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All the weasel words you need. . .

at Nicholas Bate.

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"It was a scene that has recurred throughout history, as establishment leaders are overtaken by the very mobs they sought to use for their own purposes"

Read on.

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“I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.”

William F. Buckley, Jr.

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The zucchini picking was productive yesterday.

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“Fall in love and stay in love. Explode. Don't intellectualize. Get passionate about ideas. Cram your head full of images... Stay off the internet and all that crap.

Read all the great books. Read all the great poetry. See all the great films. Fill your life with metaphors. And then explode."

-Ray Bradbury

Fuck! Yes! Explode!

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I hope you’re reading Michael Wade on Substack.

Books for America's 250th Anniversary

The story of America is never-ending but these books are a good start.

What are you reading?

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Don't do rocks, kids. Ask Cash, the (hopefully) recovering rock addict.

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"The Vikings used the long days to maximise their productivity by hunting, settling disputes and conducting raids."

Rob has ideas for these longer days.

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The Wall Street Journal has become drivel.

From the writer profile: "Joe was previously a staff writer at the Atlantic magazine. . ."

There are no editors anymore.

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"lifestyle treatments. . ."

Of course, "lifestyle treatments" involve counseling.

Lot's of talk around "food noise".

I remain skeptical and continue to believe that significant time outside is key for children.

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Telemann Tuesday for summer. Die Tageszeiten - The Times of the Day.

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Try sending them outside to play. Watch the pounds fall off. I've never put a child on a diet. Never had to.

This is sad.

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James Madison, by Gilbert Stuart in 1804

"Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them."

—James Madison, speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 20, 1788

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Is there no virtue among us?

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Swamped.