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May 31, 2021
I remember.
I’m tired of hearing from The Marginalized and The Oppressed. Screw them. Most just take up space. Today let’s venerate and remember people who have fought for us to keep us strong and purposeful. Just for today. Ok?
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May 29, 2021
We Remember Heroes
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May 28, 2021
Two Fascist Platforms in America
Most Americans cherish speech and expression. But they don’t like being told how and how fast to morally evolve. The more genuinely fascist and anti-democracy platforms like Twitter and Facebook—yes, not unlike Antifa itself Twitter and FB are fascist-leaning and aggressively so—suppress long-suffering alternative (Republican, conservative, libertarian and non-woke) citizen views, the more severe the backlash will be. Twitter and Facebook don’t get Speech, Democracy and most Americans. They never have. They only believe in prissy, morally correct lockstep. They believe in “good tryany.” Tyranny with manners. Twitter and Facebook are making things worse. They don’t get it. Moral Pretension is the real public health crisis.
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May 23, 2021
Trees
Trees
BY JOYCE KILMER (1913)
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
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May 14, 2021
Good morning!
Good morning fellow running dog lackeys of the American WASP-fueled northern European Patriarchy. Everyone else kiss my Anglo-Irish-German-French Viking ass. Have a nice day.
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May 05, 2021
Heroes: Karl Llewellyn.
Karl Nickerson Llewellyn
You expect me to tell you that you should be earnest about your work, and get your back into it for dear old Siwash, and that he who lets work slide will stumble by the way.
The above of course is from the opening chapter of the The Bramble Bush: On Our Law and Its Study (1931), which sprung from a series of introductory lectures Karl Llewellyn (1893–1962) gave to first-year law students during the 1929-30 academic year, when he was appointed the first Betts Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia. The book's title is from a poem "The Bramble Bush" by Robert Penn Warren, excerpted here:
There was a man in our town
and he was wondrous wise:
he jumped into a bramble bush
and scratched out both his eyes--and when he found that he was blind,
with all his might and maine,
He jumped into another one,
and scratched them in again.
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Mexico as Hero: Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862.
Today, other nations in the Americas honor Mexico. In the Battle of Puebla, on May 5, 1862, 4,000 Mexican soldiers defeated a much better-equipped invading French army of 8,000. Since the Battle of Puebla, no nation in the Americas has been invaded by any other European military force.
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May 01, 2021
Pagan May Day: Man’s Eternal Spring Blowout.
May Day is a bit unique among the many old pagan holidays. For 2,200 years, at least in Europe, it's had a long and colorful run on its own, albeit in different forms. But unlike other pagan celebrations, May Day in Europe was never Christianized or abandoned as Christianity spread throughout Europe. It somehow managed to survive and flourish on its own. The first May Day holiday we know much about began in republican Rome about 250 BC. It was a one-day spring festival in honor of the goddess Flora, a fertility deity. Eventually the holiday grew to six days of special events and serious reveling, on April 28-May 3. Known as the Floralia in Roman religion for nearly 600 years, Rome's May Day was a "peoples" or plebeian holiday that took place at the Temple of Flora. (If you've been to Rome even once, you likely looked over the ground where the temple once stood. It's on the edge of the Aventine, a few hundred yards southwest of the Circus Maximus and Palatine Hill.) The Floralia featured drinking, mock gladiator games, animal sacrifices, "the pelting of the crowd" with vegetables (the first food fights?), dancing, nakedness, prostitutes (sex workers were specifically included and often featured), dancing naked prostitutes, theatre, colorful costumes and drinking. Below, one of the the greatest painters of the 1700s gives us a baroque take on the festival and its raw, fun and feral spirit.
"The Empire of Flora", 1744, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770). The scene is supposedly based on Ovid's description of The Floralia.
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