Posts by ebrandom@zirk.us
(DIR) Post #ASqYC8oTsWpYC9MeX2 by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-02-19T19:09:42Z
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@CitizenWald "to be smitten hip & thigh" means, i want to say, something else today.
(DIR) Post #AStGNK3JDTlWXNMUl6 by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-02-21T02:33:00Z
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"Every generation...must inevitably play on the dead whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind." one of many fantastic lines from Carl Becker's classic "Everyman" essay.
(DIR) Post #AStGds22eINoYYeyEC by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-02-21T02:37:10Z
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@CitizenWald I do -- I think it's really good! There are some definite limits and problems, but maybe especially for students it's such a clear assertion of a certain point of view. Plus, as I'm reminded whenever I go back to it, his prose is excellent.
(DIR) Post #AStGsbPKjwVFLBZxmy by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-02-21T02:38:43Z
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@CitizenWald Plus I'm interested in Benedetto Croce, and the essay mentions Croce and reads to me as a sort of a translation of Croce for the US.
(DIR) Post #AStHY1INOWnZVG4fTM by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-02-21T02:47:19Z
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@CitizenWald The Croce is just a little treat for me -- there's too much backstory there for the undergrads under normal conditions. I don't know in detail about Croce's reception among US historians, but my sense is that he would surely be very well known by the early 1930s -- I wonder how the politics of that citation looked at that moment?
(DIR) Post #AT2cV4KlUIhnWCGUZE by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-02-25T14:54:28Z
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@khoji @Remittancegirl @malwaretech @erraggy because you think someone who hasn't been to school can't be trusted to vote right? I don't think this can be the answer.
(DIR) Post #ATuuxjRm5vmHC2UgxU by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-03-23T19:19:29Z
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Solve all your problems with Dr. Scott's Electric FLESH Brush! https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xu4r359p/items
(DIR) Post #ATuuxlMsx53T9SDocC by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-03-23T19:21:34Z
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The more popular item was a hair brush, of a similar design (the thunderbolt arm especially, and in rubber) -- apparently not electric, but magnetic. http://www.nolindan.com/lindancollection/ql001.html
(DIR) Post #AUIFe2tF4lV1ibmDui by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-04-04T01:45:52Z
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@CitizenWald what class is this that you're trying to teach all these things in!? I've not read Ortega, and have been meaning to for a long time.
(DIR) Post #AXSO2cnJEzAXNpO54a by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-07-07T14:32:31Z
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It's like we've spent the last decade (at least) rediscovering that the medium itself has a politics.
(DIR) Post #AYUw0TgKHhSgi6K1Lc by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-08-07T18:40:34Z
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@sophia do not respond, this is absolutely a trap, something bad will happen to you no matter what you answer.
(DIR) Post #AYaWy4gUv95chKv2iu by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-08-10T04:22:28Z
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@julieofthespirits i especially like "a coarse, foul-mouthed man, whose large bald head concealed many surprising contradictions"
(DIR) Post #AYnnTlnFWQqwpwo9Zo by ebrandom@zirk.us
2023-08-16T19:22:21Z
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Idle question: when I google "Carl Becker" one of the results I get is the Britannica article about him. The header there also says, "Yale professor, Pulitzer." Becker was never at Yale, nor did he ever win a Pulitzer. The article itself says nothing about either, neither word as far as I can see appears there. So where does this chaff come from?