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Scrooge fell upon his knees, and clasped his hands before his face. “Mercy!” he said. “Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?” Subscribe now I was scrolling the Journal last night and came across journalist Rebecca Smith's obit. Way, way deep in the back of my brain some
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It's an interesting, nonetheless contemptible fact we refuse to acknowledge the politics of technology. It is especially curious after two-centuries industrial technologies altered daily human existence to a far greater degree than any political dogma of the time. Across the 20th century, industrialization was, which the exceptions of
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Some people try to pick up girls and get called asshole This never happened to Pablo Picasso He could walk down your street and girls could not resist his stare And so Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole The Art Institute has a wonderful exhibition of Pablo Picasso'
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“There are times when liberty alone can replace the love of personal comfort with higher and more active enthusiasms, can provide ambition and loftier aims than the acquisition of wealth and can shed enough light to lead people both to see and to judge the vices and virtues of men.
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Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please consider become a paid subscriber. From our beginnings, Homo sapiens have been a migratory species. Only in the last ten thousand years, with the dawn of agriculture, has humanity become relatively sedentary. However, even across these ten thousand years, migration
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Subscribe now For years I haven't read the Post much. I no longer have the stomach. I never read it at all except for research, but then came the internet. When 9/11 befell, the Post raged for war, any war. I quit reading. A few years ago,
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I want to be haunted by the ghosts Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. The LATimes has two stories on American car culture. One is about continuing the idiocy, the other is about the road forward. The first concerns the opening of
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Long time ago saw Shane McGowan at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Cold, rainy night, took me a half-hour to track down a ticket outside. Walked in, the place was packed. The atmosphere was like a fifth inning in the leftfield bleachers at Wrigley Field. I quickly walked to the
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“It would be easy to forget and forgive Henry Kissinger of his crimes, just as he forgave Nixon. Yes, we could do that -- but it would be wrong. Kissinger is a slippery little devil, a world-class hustler with a thick German accent and a very keen eye for weak
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“He says that in all of us there are two men—the clever man and the hero—and when the clever man comes on top, it is just as though we had killed our children. Each of us is both a blind man and a fool, and if the hero
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File under underappreciated guitarists: Marco Pirroni played on this song above, well on the whole “Kings of the Wild Frontier” album. Unbeknownst to me, he also played on the first two Sinead O’Connor albums. Here they are live making wonderful sounds together. Talk about underappreciated, she’s playing a