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Last piece for January.
This was taken in the garden. It would be interesting to take some similar shots next to Newcastle airport, where the planes are much lower in the sky. Less altitude will give me much more detail, although less negative space.
It's a simple title for a simple image; I was going to make mention of the contrail (or chemtrail, if the conspiracy theorists are to be believed) but it didn't seem necessary or appropriate.
Best of September 2013Here are some of the best pictures I found in September, 2013. They do not appear in my Square-features, that's why I do a monthly feature for all those great artists on deviantART who submitted no-square pictures.
..: Mr Bookman :.. by *Mademoiselle-PIntergalactic by *erezmarom
Colossus by ~Inebriantia
As I Watched It End by *Jordan-RobertsElixir by ~JeanFan
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the orange (extreme make up) by *TheBizarreBirdcage
Yeah, I agree; the original composition had the contrail leading left-right but it didn't have any presence compared to this. I would have shot it this way in the first place but I was already hanging dangerously out of the window to catch it.


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The case of Amanda Knox, and the murder of her English roommate, Meredith Kercher, in the Italian town of Perugia, is a real-life mystery as compelling and terrifying as any work of fiction. In fact, Knox and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, seem to have been convicted of this crime based on a work of fiction spun by a powerful prosecutor, a remarkable dearth of hard evidence, and assumptions with no basis in fact. Writers who dream up tales of terror could not have invented anything more chilling than Amanda's nightmare in Italy.
Amanda Knox is an exceptionally good student, early riser, peace-and-lovenik fan of the Beatles, who leaves Seattle to go to Perugia and study Italian. She becomes a roommate in a house in a somewhat sketchy part of town, sharing it with the English girl and two young Italian women. She meets Raffaele, son of a well-to-do family, who is studying computer science at the university. A week into their romance, Amanda and Raffaele return to her house, finding evidence of a break-in, and call the police. As the police search the house for Italian-style "evidence" of theft, they find Meredith in her room, behind a locked door, foully murdered.
Amanda might have left Italy immediately, but she felt the need to stay in Perugia and help the police with their investigations. The case is assigned to the well-known prosecutor, Giuliano Mignini, who decides that this free-spirited American girl looks like a perfect suspect. She and Raffaele are subjected to all-night questioning and verbal as well as physical battery at the station; she is confused, can't get her story straight, but of course it might be hard for anyone to remember exactly what it was they did, at what time, a few days earlier. Unfortunately, she tried to pin the blame on someone else, changed her story, and made a mess of things. Under pressure, Amanda did not fare well at the initial questioning, and was arrested along with the mild-mannered Raffaele.
Mignini concocts a tale: this profligate American and her Italian boyfriend decided to have some fun with Meredith, and try to force her into a sexual game. When she refuses, they kill her. Mignini describes them as "drug-crazed," but their drug intake consisted of a joint, which would have made them less inclined to get off the sofa, and not more likely to commit murder.
The real horror in this tale is the Italian justice system Mignini is facing charges of evidence tampering in another case, when he is put in charge of this investigation. He later loses that case and is convicted, and given an 18-month jail term for it, which is suspended. The six jurors who are assigned to hear the case are not kept from reading the lurid international press accounts, or watching the news. In court, jurors were bored, "such as the silver-haired man who had continued his habit of sleeping through the defense testimony."
Throughout Dempsey's book are terrifying details, such as the prosecutor arriving on the scene and shaking the hand of the investigator wearing a sterile latex glove (so Mignini's DNA should have been everywhere at the murder scene). A knife taken from Raffaele's kitchen drawer was assumed to have been the murder weapon, and the uncertified lab in Rome, which handled many samples of Meredith's DNA, found a speck of it on the knife, selected at random by an investigator because it was big and shiny (and the wrong size to have inflicted the wounds). Even though the test equipment warned that the reading on the knife was too low for accuracy, it was submitted as evidence anyway, and Italians claimed that their conviction of Amanda and Raffaele's guilt was based on the incontrovertible DNA evidence.
Outside the courtroom in the Hall of Frescos, where the case would be decided, a carnival atmosphere prevailed. A merry-go-round had been installed, among the holiday decorations, and people thronged to be there at the finale of the "trial of the century" – like a scene dreamed up by Fellini.
One wonders what goes on in the subconscious of the prosecutor, which would dream up so sexual a fantasy with no evidence. For that matter, it is equally bizarre that the jury could convict two people for whom there was not a single shred of actual evidence at the murder scene. Plenty of evidence was found to convict another man, Rudy Guede, as his DNA was all over the room. Nonetheless, Rudy ended up getting 15 years, while Amanda and Raffaele got 26 and 25 years.
This is a Byzantine tale that leads one to suspect that Americans are not particularly safe in the bel paese. Amanda's behavior, eccentric by Italian standards, her choice of clothing, her habit of showering "too often" or leaving the bathroom messy, convinced people in the country she loved that she was capable of murder. Amanda and Raffaele have now been in jail for two years; an appeal is pending. One can only hope that reason, and a truly fair assessment of the evidence, will finally release them from this nightmare.


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The 20-year-old movie producer was found slumped in a chair in his mother's Bahamian hospital room just three days after the birth of his half-sister. Initial autopsy reports have failed to find a cause of death.
But, after forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht declared yesterday that Daniel was taking prescription anti-depression medication when he died, the youngster's movie partner has revealed he had been very ill.
David Giancola, the director of Smith's new movie Illegal Aliens--which was produced by her son--tells In Touch magazine that Smith had been in intensive care for an elevated heart rate.
He says, "He was in the hospital for two or three days. He was really sick. He lost something like 28 pounds and had a constant stomach ache."
According to Giancola, Daniel seemed to have recovered but was still not fully fit when he flew to the Bahamas to be with his mother after she gave birth on Sept. 7.
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text: 1Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany 2Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden *now at: Institute of Physics, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany **now at: Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Abstract. Record breaking loss of ozone (O3) in the Arctic stratosphere has been reported in winter–spring 2010/2011. We examine in detail the composition and transformations occurring in the Arctic polar vortex using total column and vertical profile data products for O3, bromine oxide (BrO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), chlorine dioxide (OClO), and polar stratospheric clouds (PSC) retrieved from measurements made by SCIAMACHY (Scanning Imaging Absorption SpectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartography) on-board Envisat (Environmental Satellite), as well as total column ozone amount, retrieved from the measurements of GOME-2 (Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment) on MetOp-A (Meteorological Experimental Satellite). Similarly we use the retrieved data from DOAS (Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy) measurements made in Ny-Ålesund (78.55° N, 11.55° E). A chemical transport model (CTM) has been used to relate and compare Arctic winter–spring conditions in 2011 with those in the previous year. In late winter–spring 2010/2011 the chemical ozone loss in the polar vortex derived from SCIAMACHY observations confirms findings reported elsewhere. More than 70% of O3 was depleted by halogen catalytic cycles between the 425 and 525 K isentropic surfaces, i.e. in the altitude range ~16–20 km. In contrast, during the same period in the previous winter 2009/2010, a typical warm Arctic winter, only slightly more than 20% depletion occurred below 20 km, while 40% of O3 was removed above the 575 K isentrope (~23 km). This loss above 575 K is explained by the catalytic destruction by NOx descending from the mesosphere. In both Arctic winters 2009/2010 and 2010/2011, calculated O3 losses from the CTM are in good agreement to our observations and other model studies. The mid-winter 2011 conditions, prior to the catalytic cycles being fully effective, are also investigated. Surprisingly, a significant loss of O3 around 60%, previously not discussed in detail, is observed in mid-January 2011 below 500 K (~19 km) and sustained for approximately 1 week. The low O3 region had an exceptionally large spatial extent. The situation was caused by two independently evolving tropopause elevations over the Asian continent. Induced adiabatic cooling of the stratosphere favoured the formation of PSC, increased the amount of active chlorine for a short time, and potentially contributed to higher polar ozone loss later in spring. Citation: Hommel, R., Eichmann, K.-U., Aschmann, J., Bramstedt, K., Weber, M., von Savigny, C., Richter, A., Rozanov, A., Wittrock, F., Khosrawi, F., Bauer, R., and Burrows, J. P.: Chemical ozone loss and ozone mini-hole event during the Arctic winter 2010/2011 as observed by SCIAMACHY and GOME-2, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 3247-3276, doi:10.5194/acp-14-3247-2014, 2014. |


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All you have to do to see pressed board is look at the computer desks for sale at most discount stores. That's pressed board. Sometimes it's particle board, and sometimes MDF. The more expensive desks are made from MDF.
We have a TV cart, two computer desks, a microwave cart and a tall cabinet, all made from pressed board. If you can't afford real wood, then pressed board does make sense for some types of furnishings, like desks, utility carts and the like. The nice thing is pressed board furniture is available everywhere I can think of and doesn't cost a fortune.


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Unity: 3 Rants And A Tip
Shawn rants a bit about Ubuntu's new Unity interface, and gives us a couple tips on how to adjust.
Its a good thing, really.
The 'dash' (the annoying program launcher menu replacement) is the only thing that's questionable, because you can't get to a list of applications quickly, but as long as you know what you want, which is most of the time, you just start typing the name and then hit enter and it'll launch. Its very efficient if you know the name or general concept. The sidebar is nothing to complain about, seriously. It takes up 0px of space. What?? you say? because it autohides whenever a window collides with it. And the reason the menus are at the top is because research proved to apple that users can more quickly throw their mouse to the top of the screen and access the menu than trying to pin point the menu at an arbitrary location on the screen. This is good on its own, but this also saves pixels. Lots of pixels. When you maximize a window in unity it gets integrated into the top bar saving EVEN MORE pixels. This is good stuff. And unity will be much more customizable in 11.10, they just needed to stabilize its main features for this release. Not to mention being able to do the windows 7 style drag-to-edge functionality is nice, just drag to the top to maximize, or drag to one side to split the screen.
Another gripe
I agree with everything Shawn has to say, plus I'll add one of my own. I use the workspace switcher in the panel extensively. I realize that there is one in the Unity side bar, but the fact that I have to click on it to see the spaces makes it as useless to me as the OSX workspace is.
I think I could learn to tolerate the sidebar if some of the other problems weren't so limiting. I'm all for making it easy to learn for new users, but I don't understand why so many useful features for experienced users have to be taken away.
I'm very curious to see how Linux Mint changes in the coming months. I think I might be making a switch.
On OS X at least you don't
On OS X at least you don't have to click it to see the workspaces. You can set up hot corners that will show all the workspaces, or Fn F3.
The new Ubuntu look is nearly identical to my OS X interface as I keep the dock on the left, except for that launcher window thing. I don't really know how it's an improvement over Gnome or the new Gnome shell, but I don't work for them. I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that Ubuntu artistic designers use Macs.
you all sound like battered housewives also suffering from the stockholm syndrome. why the hell adjust to something you don't want, need, or like??
there's a whole world of distros out there.
Unity & Gnome Shell both suck
I can't stand Unity or Gnome-Shell. They both suck.
I've been an avid gnome user since before 2.0. I've never liked KDE, but I just installed it last night.
Thanks GNOME & Ubuntu.
why unity is better
I don't know that it's better, but I think it'll be easier for unsophisticated computer users coming from a Mac or Windows platform. From a usability perspective, there just isn't much to learn!
I am a professional software engineer, yet when I first installed ubuntu, I struggled with it for days. Unity looks like something that a person could be up and running with in hours.
I'll never understand why Linux users rag on changes on distributions with such vehemence. If you don't like the hamburgers at McDonald's, you go to Burger King. If you don't like Unity, use something else.
And, as anonymous has noted, Unity may be easier to use for more people. Which, of course, is something we don't want in Linux.
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>> "And, as anonymous has noted, Unity may be easier to use for more people. Which, of course, is something we don't want in Linux."
LOL! Well put!
First Anonymous back now, I
First Anonymous back now, I just installed Unity and I have a good impression of it. I might keep it on my system for when I just want to log in, check a few emails and read news. However, when it's time to do some work I'm sure I'll log into my KDE based mepis install.
I think it's great to have a stepping stone for the masses, to get them into the foss world. People who have chips on their shoulders about this and that OS should just get over it. Really! If your grandma wanted to use Linux, would you set her up with Slackware?
It's great that Ubuntu is putting out an entry-level distribution. And from the looks of it, for 75% of all users it may be all they ever need. I just wish it were a little more stable - that's what caused me to move to Mepis
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Getting into a spot of bother in the Dennis Lowe Theatre Company's panto Aladdin, which opens at the Felxistowe Spa Pavilion on December 22.
By WAYNE SAVAGE, entertainment writer
Friday, December 21, 2012
Dragons, mystical genies, romance; get ready for the magic carpet ride of a lifetime with Aladdin.
Felixstowe's Spa Pavilion has been transformed into Old Peking for the the Dennis Lowe Theatre Company's 47th traditional family pantomime.
With owner Suffolk Coastal saying it can no longer afford the annual £250,000 cost of the theatre, it's appointed specialist agents Jones Lang LaSalle to re-market the seafront property to try to attract a bidder – either to run it as a theatre or a new attraction.
When Aladdin closes on January 6, so does the theatre.
"Never say never," says Aladdin's director and choreographer Suzie Lowe when I ask her about the possibility of it being the last ever show there.
"There hasn't been a year gone by where I haven't done a show at the theatre. I'm positive something will happen. The council want to see it survive, they want to see it as a theatre. I can see where they're coming from in terms of 'financially this isn't working, we need to re-think it'.
"I was with the councillors yesterday. I can't say too much but it's the most positive I've heard them speak. If they can figure out a way it's going to be financially viable they will go with it 100 per cent. Fingers crossed."
She's excited about the show which sees the evil wizard Abanazar seek out Aladdin, who lives with his brother Wishy Washy and mum Widow Twankey, so he can get his hands on a magic lamp containing the mystical genie. Things don't go quite to plan and the adventure begins.
"You've got Princess Jasmine, the Emperor of China, some funny comedy slapstick policemen. There's lots and lots of audience participation; it's just non-stop throughout the whole show. We've got some lovely effects... we've also got a brilliant dragon," says Suzie, who's actually going on as Aladdin for two shows.
"Our Aladdin had some work commitments he couldn't get out of. When I'm not doing that I'm dancing away with the others. I take it all in my stride to be honest with you," she laughs. "I love it, I just rock up and get on with it."
Audiences can also expect lots of upbeat dance numbers and smash songs from Shrek The Musical, Madness, Take That, High School Musical and much, much more from the 30-strong cast.
Suzie wants everybody to come along and show their support for the Spa.
"If it does close, at least they can say they came and saw a brilliant show, had some fun. Just come down, even for the memories and stuff. Support us because if this the last show then obviously we want to go out with a bang."
Aladdin runs at the Felixstowe Spa from December 22-January 6.
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Calories | 402 |
Total Fat | 19g |
Saturated Fat | 3g |
Cholesterol | 84mg |
Sodium | 162mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 6g |
Dietary Fiber | 2g |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 50g |
Calcium | -- |
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Prep Time: 25 min
Cook Time: 30 min
Oven Temp: 350
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- 1 whole(s) (about 2 pounds) red snapper or sea bass, cleaned and scaled, head and tail left on
- 3 tablespoon(s) extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) ground black pepper, (optional)
- 1/8 teaspoon(s) salt, (optional)
- 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt, (optional)
- 1/4 cup(s) finely chopped celery
- 1/4 cup(s) finely chopped onion
- 2 tablespoon(s) finely chopped green pepper
- 1 green onion, chopped
- 1/2 cup(s) pine nuts, toasted
- 2 tablespoon(s) whole almonds, toasted and coarsely chopped
- 2 tablespoon(s) finely chopped fresh parsley leaves
- Kitchen string for tying fish
- 1 (18-inch) square heavy-duty foil
- 3 slice(s) (thinly cut) lime
- 3 slice(s) (thinly cut) onion
- 3 slice(s) (thinly cut) tomato
- 1 tablespoon(s) fresh lime juice
- Celery leaves, green onion tops, parsley, and lime wedges, for garnish
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Rub outside of fish with 1 tablespoon oil. Sprinkle inside and outside of fish with 1/8 teaspoon black pepper and 1/8 teaspoon salt, if using.
- In 2-quart saucepan, heat remaining 2 tablespoons oil over medium heat until hot. Add celery, onion, green pepper, and green onion, and cook 3 minutes or just until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally. Remove saucepan from heat; stir in pine nuts, almonds, and parsley.
- Spoon pine nut mixture into cavity of fish. Tie fish with string to close cavity. Transfer fish to half of foil square set on large cookie sheet. Top fish with overlapping slices of lime, onion, and tomato. Sprinkle with remaining 1/8 teaspoon pepper and 1/4 teaspoon salt, if using. Drizzle lime juice over fish.
- Fold other half of foil over fish. Pinch foil edges together to seal tightly. Bake 30 minutes or until fish flakes easily. Before serving, with kitchen shears, cut opening in top of packet to let steam escape, then carefully pull back foil. Transfer fish to large platter. Garnish with celery leaves, green onion tops, parsley, and lime wedges.
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Remembering the Dead, from Selma
I confess this is the first time in my life I will break the old Hellenic rule: ton tethnvêkota mê kakologein (speak no ill of the dead). That Vidal was a cruel person is no excuse for not refraining from criticism after his recent death, but here I sin nonetheless.
I could never finish any of Gore Vidal's fiction, even his best, Julian — although I grant that he was ironic, at times shocking, and could be a valuable corrective to unmerited reputations. But Robert Graves (even at his worst with Count Belisarius) and Peter Green were probably superior historical novelists. To compare similar contrarian essayists, the late Christopher Hitchens was a better writer. He was more widely informed and more honest about the public intellectual's propensity for caricaturing the very ribbons and medals — and cash — that he so covets.
Many praised Vidal's essays. Some were insightful, but more were self-indulgent, full of pathetic aristocratic references, and tinged with anti-Semitism and passive-aggressive gossip about those with better bloodlines and more money. Among the latter, Vidal eagerly sought opportunities to play the court jester. Somehow all of that was central, rather than incidental, to his arguments.
For all his claims of erudition, Vidal suffered the wages of the public autodidact. I noticed he quoted Latin ad nauseam — and nearly always with his nouns and adjectives not just in the wrong cases (especially the confusion of the accusative and ablative in preposition phrases), but predictably in the fashion of those who like to copy down Latin phrases but cannot read a complete Latin sentence. By his sixties, Vidal had degenerated into a conspiracy theorist, and his embarrassing late-life infatuation with Timothy McVeigh caught the eye of the goddess Nemesis.
Vidal said he was nauseated by American imperialism and gloated over our decline, but his real pique was that the mannered East Coast snobbishness that he loved to shock had given way to a socially mobile, no-holds-barred popular culture that did not so much ignore his world of blue-blood repartee, but had no clue that it had ever existed. He liked being hated; he hated being irrelevant.
Otherwise, it is hard to find any commonality in Vidal's corpus of work other than a certain disdain for what he would term the "grasping": the supposedly wannabe Jewish intellectual, the upper-middle class suburbanite who sends his kids to State U, or the American can-doism that sought to "improve" itself through intellectual and artistic awareness — about which brings me to my sole Gore Vidal story.
I met him once. Or rather my family did. In the early 1960s, my father, William F. Hanson, a former teacher, farmer, and then administrator at Reedley Junior College, proposed to the local JC school board "a lecture series." The Central Valley farming community was innately conservative. But nonetheless, in the classically liberal spirit of those pre-Vietnam times, the farmers on the board not only funded my dad's proposed lecture series, but encouraged him to invite controversial, and often liberal, voices — over the objection of the careerist president of the college at that time.
There was only a small ramshackle college motel in Reedley (population around 6,000 then). Consequently, often my father asked the speakers whether they wished instead to stay at our Selma farmhouse, 16 miles away, on the night before the lecture. A lot did.
So it followed that, from about age 9 to 15 (e.g., 1962-1968), I listened to every word, at dinner and the next morning's breakfast, from the likes of Ansel Adams (I remember a short, bearded bald man in cowboy hat who railed all evening against James Watt), Pearl Buck (two strange aides who would not let her out of their sight), Louis Leakey (suffering from terrible dental pain and around the house wearing a blue jump suit), Bernard Lovell (stared out about two feet over our heads when speaking), Rod Serling (refused to answer our constant questions about the Twilight Zone, and instead went on a nonstop invective against Richard Nixon), Mark Van Doren (gracious, polite, and a beautiful speaker of the English language), and about 30 or so others in rural Selma.
66 Comments, 38 Threads
1. Jonathan Levy
RIP John Keegan. I've got five or six of his books on my shelf – all are engaging and informative.
Thank you, Dr. Hanson, for a fine eulogy.
August 6, 2012 - 12:10 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Yes, it is a nicely done article; and, for most of the day, I've been looking up and reading things related to it, just so's I could get a whole picture. In all, the only possible fault which I might allege would be, as I think, than the word "Vidal", the article would better putting some other word in position of final emphasis, . . .
August 7, 2012 - 5:00 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
2. David W. Nicholas
I read voraciously, especially military history and historical, especially military, fiction, so I've read most of John Keegan's work (especially the later, more significant stuff) and back in the day I read Burr, 1876, and Lincoln, I think. I more or less liked Vidal, until the cynicism of 1876 overwhelmed me. When I heard he had died, I was more or less indifferent; I'd stopped reading his stuff or paying any attention to him years ago.
John Keegan was more or less my favorite historian of the last 25 years or so (no offense VDH). This weekend I had a conversation with a friend who's a more qualified historian that I am (I'm one of those autodidacts Dr. Hanson talks about in his article, while my friend Jim has a Master's in history) and we argued, mildly, about JK's influence in terms of the historical community. I quoted a now-forgotten (to me anyway) detective novelist speaking on the occasion of Robert B. Parker's death last year, that there were two sorts of detective novelists: those who would tell you that Parker had a great influence on their work, and those who would lie about it. Jim disagreed with me, noting that much of Keegan's work was regarded with skepticism by a lot of people, and some of the later stuff was burdened by errors. Those are just criticisms, but my point still stands: Keegan managed to get historians discussing issues, looking at them in new ways, thinking through things in a different vein, etc. That's always the most critical thing, whether you agree with the author or not: getting people thinking is crucial, and someone who could do it with such elegant prose deserved all the acclaim he got.
I still think Six Armies in Normandy one of the best books on the battle, and his memoir about studying American military history for 40 years is eloquent, funny, poignant, and very intelligent. His passing is a great loss.
August 6, 2012 - 12:13 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
3. David W. Nicholas
I think more or less that I used the phrase more or less too much in the above, but you get the idea…more or less…
August 6, 2012 - 12:14 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
4. Buckeye Abroad
"A far better man — in both the ethical and literary sense — died this last week, Sir. John Keegan."
I didn't know Keegan passed. Sad news.
As for Vidal, I honestly thought he was quite dead some time now.August 6, 2012 - 1:33 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
5. Exactly
"Remember, authors, what a single act of kindness can do for others…"
'nuff said.
August 6, 2012 - 2:58 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
6. Peking Dick
Why are so many autodidacts also such committed autostimulators?
August 6, 2012 - 3:02 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
7. some of my best friends
The second paragraph just about says it all. Vidal never wrote anything to compare with I, Claudius (or — more his level — Ancient Evenings), and he doesn't belong in the same company as Christopher Hitchens.
he quoted Latin ad nauseam — and nearly always with his nouns and adjectives not just in the wrong cases (especially the confusion of the accusative and ablative in preposition phrases), but predictably in the fashion of those who like to copy down Latin phrases but cannot read a complete Latin sentence.
Now, now, now. But he no doubt deserves it. Er…ahem…don't you mean dative not ablative, unless it's an ablative absolute construction? Am I bluffing? No, it's just long, long ago.
August 6, 2012 - 5:08 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Charlie Griffith
(….how do ya like that?)
Those thousands (…and counting..) of subtle (to me) Latin verb tenses with their terrible, long names containing such mysterious words will ever remain one of the deeper, darker mysteries of this student's life, …..mine….now so hoary and ancient of days. Sigh.
Oh, woe, woe….a parent's tears on the telephone with Miss Quick at Calvin Coolidge High school…..
Miss Quick, yes, that was actually her name, used to look, squinting, down her long nose at me in her tenth grade Latin Class (circa 1948) wondering how I ever made it that far, then I had to take it a second time in Summer School. Did slightly better with a less intimidating Teacher.
"Omnium Gallium(-ia?)in tres partes divisa est."
August 6, 2012 - 8:55 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
some of my best friends
Ecce homo! Eek!
A, ab, absque….
corum, de…
sine, hunc, ex and e…Two or three tries and it's a real foot-tapper if pronounced with…uhm… a Ciceronian cadence, 'buoyed along by a powerful sprung rhythm' (Think I once said that in an ancient exam about Ovid when it should have been about Gerard Manley Hopkins, which is no way to get an A, and I didn't).
Heaven help me, I do cling to the dative idea still…
August 6, 2012 - 9:49 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
"nearly always with his nouns and adjectives not just in the wrong cases (especially the confusion of the accusative and ablative in preposition phrases), but predictably in the fashion of those who like to copy down Latin phrases but cannot read a complete Latin" paragraph.
That's very irregular. Does "ablative" have something to do with heat-shielding designed to be shed from space capsules on re-entry? :B-)
I am also guilty as charged, after 2 years and a smidgeon more of struggling with Latin classes in 9th and 10th (dropped out at the U because I couldn't make the mile plus run from the science/math corner to the humanities corner or back in the time allowed after the class location was moved). I had signed up for Latin in rebellion after the mandatory year of Spanish (most of which I quickly flushed from memory).
Miss Hazard (yes, she had won the county contest as a teen in Eastern Kentucky) and Mrs. Balsley (who also kept the high school running, though she was not the official principal) were task-mistresses, criticizing our every error to the point most of us were terrorized (including the medieval Catholic – "fish-eater" – faction in the class). (The Peace Corpse returnee was more easy-giong, but would threaten us with lessons in Swahili on especially bad days, or we would try to act out portions of Caesar's wars. They had trouble keeping teachers with just the right niche combinations for our small school district, and gave up on offering Latin a year later.) At the least we quickly learned not to rely on the inter-line translations and Cliff's Notes that were widely available.
Each night it would take me several hours to translate, and translate back, and translate back again (round-trip plus), our 10-12 exercise sentences in an effort to catch all of my mistakes… But I never trusted myself, and second-guessed to the last second as I wrote the sentence the teacher randomly assigned, on the board… only to be humiliated again by some glitch that was obvious once she'd mentioned it. (It would help learners a great deal if the dictionaries and conjugated verb books would give up trying to abbreviate and list out all the forms of all the verbs and nouns and adjectives and adverbs clearly, but the habit disappointingly seems to be carrying over to the on-line materials.)
It helped me greatly with Italian and German, though, and, with a custom glossary for the subject-area (e.g. Ludwig von Mises _Human Action_ is certainly much easier with his grad students' specialized multi-language glossary), I can manage to get the gist of a few words of Greek and Hebrew. (French was a total loss. Was the language cobbled together by aliens from outer space? All those unpronounced letters, and subtle shades of pronunciation from strings of vowels all sounded the same to me are worse than the seemingly infinite irregular forms.) But I do still enjoy finding the occasional apt phrase from any language and put those gems that I scrounge into my quote collection, so that I can subject others to them when the occasion arises. In Hebrew, "netzach" means both persistance and victory. Dum spiro, spero.
August 6, 2012 - 10:52 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Tarquin the Meek
"Er…ahem…don't you mean dative not ablative, unless it's an ablative absolute construction?"
Quick grammar for non-Latin speakers:
Latin has "cases", which are, more or less, bolt-on endings to nouns to show if they're a subject, direct object, indirect object, whatever (we usually use word order instead, except Yoda).
Prepositions in Latin are like jigsaw pieces that can only connect to nouns in one case or another. Ante, "before", can only bond to nouns in the accusative:
CORRECT: "ante bellum" (ante + bellum, "war", in the accusative)
INCORRECT: "ante bello" (ante + bello, "war" in the dative)So what I think VDH is referring to here is that one way you can tell that someone is a poser wanting to look clever by using Latin if he uses prepositions with nouns they shouldn't "stick" to because they're in the wrong case.
Very, very, very, very common example from law: There is the old proverb "de minimis lex non curat", "the law does not care about little things". (Which means that, say, a lawsuit will not be thrown out because you got somebody's middle initial wrong somewhere in a brief.)
"Minimis" is the dative form of minimus, "little thing", because de, "concerning", won't bond to it otherwise. However, it is extremely commonly miswritten as "de minimus" by lawyers and judges, probably because Latin words are just supposed to end with "us".
August 6, 2012 - 12:03 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
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Hey, Tarquin, you done us proud. I can push the boat out a tad further, maybe:
VDH gives an example: ad nauseam is (possibly, though don't bet the ranch) a prepositional adverbial phrase 'taking' the accusative not the ablative. 'Ad' in the context means 'in the direction of'. An ablative usage would be 'by, with or from' nausea — which may be where Mr. Sassoon, I mean, Mr. Vidal stuck in the mud. The normal dative would translate as 'to or for', hence my confusion. Ditto with ad hominem (vaguely recall the word is 3rd declension but the dative/ablative forms are elusive — homini, homine? Hominy? – no, that's grits). So it goes, or as we say in at our most porcissimus, sic ita. Phew, need a drink …better… Hitchens would know, damn him.As for the judges and lawyers and the 'they all look alike to me' minimus problem….
There was a lawyer named Rex
Ill-versed in matters of sex,
When arraigned for exposure,
He said with composure
De minimis non curat lex.A real knee-slapper, eh? My, those jurisprudes.
We can safely guess WiseLatina would be a bit scratchy, don't you think?August 6, 2012 - 2:34 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Charlie Griffith
Noooooobody has mentioned "veni,vedi,vici…"
……..sigh, "You're welcome, Miss Quick!"
August 6, 2012 - 4:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
"Veni, Vader, Vinci"
"I came, I choked everyone I saw, I conquered"
Well, you kind of asked for it …
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Smock Puppet, 10th Dan Snark Master
>>>> Noooooobody has mentioned "veni,vedi,vici…"
I always presumed they just got the ordering on that wrong…
"Veni, Vici, Vedi"…You mean there's something else wrong with it?
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Dangit, I hate when I mess up a joke and can't cover it up with an edit or even just "delete" it…
>>>> Noooooobody has mentioned "veni,vedi,vici…"I always presumed they just got the ordering on that wrong…
"Vedi, Vici, Veni"…—————–
Now, it should make some sense.
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Smock Puppet, 10th Dan Snark Master
Dangit, I hate when I mess up a joke and can't cover it up with an edit or even just "delete" it…
>>>> Noooooobody has mentioned "veni,vedi,vici…"I always presumed they just got the ordering on that wrong…
"Vedi, Vici, Veni"…—————–
Now, it should make some sense.
:^DAugust 9, 2012 - 3:54 pm Link to this Comment
Can't help pointing out that "minimis" when it's following the preposition "de" is definitely ablative.
All datives and ablatives plural are identical (i.e., ending in -is or -ibus or -ebus, depending on their declension).
Hansen's point was that a preposition governs either the accusative or the ablative case form of the noun, and so if you actually understand the language, you'll know which ending belongs there. (There aren't any prepositions that take the dative, in Latin.)
What a fantastically evocative essay from VDH! How I would love to read a memoir from him! What an enviable milieu he grew up in–what he mentioned of his parents and his mother's sister indicates that they were people to learn a lot from, as he obviously did.
August 7, 2012 - 5:40 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
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So the key word is 'preposition'. Awesome, Suzanne, majestic even! You sound like you may teach it still, which is wonderful. As for myself, can't decide whether to be glad or appalled at having remembered some of it down the decades. Glad, I think.
With that thought having been thunk, may it be the last time any of us fret about ablative constructions…
August 11, 2012 - 5:17 am Link to this Comment | Reply
8. William L. Gensert
Writing came to me late in my life, and quite accidentally. I am 53-years-old, and I published my first article last year.
In August of 2008, a 48' tractor-trailer crushed me against a wall at a printing company where I worked as the General Manager. Banging my head against the brick did something to the intricacies of my brain. For one thing, my allergies went away. I also found I could remember many things long forgotten, which is truly a most precious gift.
My recovery was lengthy — for many months, my life consisted of going to work, doing as much as I could, vomiting and going home. With nothing else to do, I started to read everything available. I discovered authors like James Taranto and Mr. Hanson. I now read everything they publish, at least everything in the public domain.
Eventually, I was fired from my position — the owner of the company wasn't happy watching me suffer so. Afterward, by giving me poor references, he made sure that any job offer I received was rescinded.
Thereafter, my health deteriorated significantly, and slowly losing the battle with pain, many days I didn't leave my home.
One dark day, I read one of Mr. Hanson's articles and decided to try to write one myself. I now use writing as therapy, even though I can only do it sporadically, when I am not self-consumed. I have published a couple of dozen articles since June of 2011.
I have never met or spoken to Mr. Hanson. Yet, he has done me and "act of kindness" by being there to read. I credit him with whatever I write — his stories about his life, as well as his sanity about politics and America today, gave me the focus I needed to redirect the path of my life.
I had acquired a desire to say something — and I think I do, uniquely, if not always well.
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You write well.
It occurred to me that VDH has the talent and the insight to write the quintessential Grapes of Wrath on the changes to and decline of California's Central Valley.
He paints vivid pictures in the reader's mind which, I would assume, partly stems from his humanity. And his humility.
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I was thinking the same thing. He does paint vivid pictures, but for some reason I was imagining his depictions of the Volvo, the farmhouse and his cast of famous lodgers-and even more interesting family members- in black and white, not color. There is the skeleton of several books in this brief essay-a memoir, a novel, perhaps several short stories. VDH writes with passion-and compassion.
August 7, 2012 - 7:59 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Esteban Cafe
I think that many of us owe Dr. Hanson gratitude for his (print) examples of triumph of reason of fashion; his skewering of Leftist causes by showing the same foibles through history…and their ugly demise. I found his writings about ten years ago and have avidly followed him since.
I'm struck by his humility and genuine curiosity. I recall lamenting to my wife that we should go attend his lecture-cruise to Greece–but we could never afford it. And though the cost has likely declined, the danger has gone up.
You sir, are a good writer and, if you publish in the same venues as Dr. Hanson, I've likely read your work. I'm sure that one day you'll prove as encouraging to a new writer as Dr. Hanson was to you. And so on…
August 7, 2012 - 10:28 am Link to this Comment | Reply
9. Bart
The many times I witnessed Buckley dismantle Vidol with, as the old adage goes, both hands tied behind his back, I realized the vast difference between intelligence used wisely and intelligence wasted. Both were prima donas but at least with Buckley you were given the opportunity to witness an honest intellecual discuss an issue with facts and accuracy vs. a dishonest intellectual who found delight in denigrating everyone around him so he could justify his self-indulging sense of superiority.
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Charlie Griffith
Couldn't stand the uber-smug "attitude", that acquired stuffy English accent, and those ever-arched eyebrows…soooo archly…. of that Buckley-self-icon.
He and that social climbing, acerbic Gore Vidal deserved each other.
Both with good, very sharp minds…sharpness personified, that's not a compliment….but it's a shame their brains couldn't have been channeled into something actually worthwhile, as opposed to merely playing with words, and name dropping.
August 6, 2012 - 8:19 am Link to this Comment | Reply
10. jjkrn
Thank you.
Watching Buckley on PBS in Pittsburgh as a young kid, Vidal would make that face, as if a very sour prune had been eaten, when Mr Buckley skewered him. At that young age I could determine who the facile twit was in that conversation.August 6, 2012 - 7:07 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
11. tanstaafl
I couldn't read Gore Vidal either, the few times I tried
After Lily Tomlin's pretend conversation with him (snorting into her headset on Laugh-In), I could never hear his name again without thinking of what Ernestine called him, Gorey Veetle.
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12. Pecos
Mr. Davis, What a wonderful childhood you had.
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Joe Toboni
I see now why the Hansons were so smart, what company they had! I would love to read the story of Rod Serling, whom I think is America's finest creator of television.
August 17, 2012 - 7:26 am Link to this Comment | Reply
13. Skook
There is nothing more insufferable than an effete phony intellectual snob; however, the gifted people of Stanford and the Silicon Valley are trying desperately to take the lead. If you by chance work in the area or spend time there and you are not caught up in the endemic admiration of self, you will recognize the attitude.
How fortunate Dr Hanson was to grow up in a family of accomplished and honorable people with rural values; herein is the primary reason his family and later Dr. Hanson clashed with Vidal, and why, years later, Dr Hanson appreciated the humility and wit of Mr. Keegan.
This essay was a heart-warming story with deeper messages for all those who choose to look for them.
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14. Dwight
Yes, it does sound like a wonderful childhood, but where has that family gone that might hold out against the barbarian hordes? We all have our personal ups and downs, but right now, VDH seems to be fighting a one-man battle.
Back in the day, I was much more of a Mailer fan (Armies of the Night" and "On the Steps of the Pentagon,") than Buckley or Vidal, but Mailer turned out to be a disappointment, both literarily and personally. Vidal hung in there somewhat better. I enjoyed "Lincoln,""Burr," and "Palimpsest," but have yet to tackle "1876." A relatively recent Keegan on WWI sits on a shelf somewhere. So many books, so little time.
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Mr. Lucky
"Vidal hung in there somewhat better."
Really now D-White. What's next, more Wasilla remembrances with "Flesh For Fantasy", and a Romney vote?
Hope and Change.
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Well, if you really need to go down that road, read Mailer's "A Prisoner of Sex."
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Mr. Lucky
What, that "prison" Hope and Change?
How about some of that really nasty Rand stuff?
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15. Richard in Chicago
Professor Hanson, thanks for lightening up this Monday morning.
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16. Chas Clifton
How could Ansell Adams have "railed all evening" against James Watt in the 1960s? He was working for the US Chamber of Commerce then — would Adams have even known who he was? He did not become Secretary of the Interior until 1980.
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Perhaps the James Watt who Ansel Adams deplored was the one who invented the steam engine in the middle of the 18th century? Although why that James Watt should be deplored by a photographer is not obvious to me…..
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Tarquin the Meek
Ansel Adams, nature photographer, might have had an obvious bone to pick with James Watt, father of the Industrial Revolution.
August 6, 2012 - 12:24 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
19. Doug1943
Wonderful essay and obituaries. (Should it not be "foreword" in "Would you like me to write the forward? ")
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20. GP Hanner
The story of forming a connection with Keegan makes me think of another struggling author with an unpublished story about war. His name is Wolfgang Samuel and his first story was his own childhood experiences in the final months of WWII and the subsequent occupation of Germany. He likes to tell how Stephen Ambrose read his manuscript and get it published by the University of Mississippi Press.
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21. Allen Stearnes
"16. Chas Clifton
How could Ansell Adams have "railed all evening" against James Watt in the 1960s? He was working for the US Chamber of Commerce then — would Adams have even known who he was? He did not become Secretary of the Interior until 1980."
It was probably the 18th century Scottish James Watt (q.v.).
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22. absinthe48
Both Vidal and Buckley were polemicists. I believe that Vidal was the better writer and that both his essays and his novels will outlast Buckley's. They were both television entertainers with similarly bitchy manners, but Vidal was less circumscribed by the week's ephemeral journalism and he had a more consistent world-view than Buckley. John Keegan, on the other hand, was a historian, which is a totally different beast from a journalist. His works will be used and relied on for as long as people have an interest in war, especially in the wars of the 20th century.
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23. J.E. Dyer
Thank you for commemorating John Keegan, professor. I have all of his popular books, like so many of the readers here. I agree that his style was majestic (rather than magisterial). He will be greatly missed. I'm also in accord with you regarding not missing any more of Vidal. I admit to finding his writing precious and self-conscious, and I don't recall ever finding anything he wrote illuminating. Elaborate snark is still snark (what an ugly but necessary word). With Vidal, you never glimpsed poignant truths about the human condition, as you do with novelists of enduring power or great plkaywrights. You saw only Vidal.
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24. J.E. Dyer
Incidentally, I did like Count Belisarius. Sorry about that.
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25. SunsetDistrict,Inc.
Vidal was a mean tinker.
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26. Alarmed Pig Farmer
He liked being hated; he hated being irrelevant.
Well, sign me up for hating Vidal. While hate is understandably discouraged, it should be reserved for the deserving. I remember him raising funds, writing essays and making personal appearances on behalf of NAMBLA – the North American Man-Boy Love Association. So, he not only loved being hated, he richly deserved it. The unfortunate part is that he was also irrelevant. Well, maybe not so much now, with the forthcoming arrival of homosexual marriage as a new national norm. What a guy.
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27. don
Sorry to read that, I have read Keegan's works, Face of Battle and The History of Warfare, and some of your works, The Western Way…and Culture and Carnage, and learned much. Read Vidal's Burr a long time ago, can't say I remember anything about the experience, but thanks for putting him, Vidal, in his social context.
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28. Banjo
Vidal was truly an odious fellow. I spent a day with him when he ran for the Senate in California, a flight into delusion remarkable even for him. After losing to Jerry Brown, he went off to live in Italy with a man that he always denied was his lover. He seems to have felt shame about being homosexual despite all the bluster. He claimed to be bisexual, like everyone else, he insisted, if they were only honest about it. He assumed a majesterial silence on his way to and from campaign events, speaking only to answer questions. The picture of lofty conceit and arch arrogance lacked only the monocle on a string to be complete. His only spontaneous moment was when the driver turned the wrong way down a one-way street in San Jose. "As Queen Victoria said," he cried, "close your eyes and think of England." He was briefly exhilarated, the only time he seemed honest. He thought of himself as a modern Oscar Wilde and some of his work compares favorably. I read one or two of his historical novels and thought them good until thinking about them later. They were clever rather than good. He was right about Pearl Harbor and FDR, however. "The world," as someone put it, "is a grayer place without his sneer."
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David W. Nicholas
I will give Vidal one thing: during his primary campaign against Jerry Brown (the incumbent) Vidal called Jerry a very clever thing. Brown at the time was beset with a scandal involving fruit flies. Brown and his allies couldn't bring themselves to spray, so they instead imported millions of infertile flies from some supplier in Asia someplace (if memory serves correctly) and released them, with the intent of rendering the flies that were already here extinct, because the existing flies would mate with the infertile ones, of course, and then all the flies would die out.
Except of course the infertile flies turned out to be fertile, and so they had many more flies than they otherwise would have had. The agricultural community (normally Democrats but way to conservative to be very friendly with Jerry anyway) erupted in anger and vituperation towards Brown, and he had to institute helicopter-mounted spraying pretty much everywhere in the state that things could grow, just to stop the flies and the protests. I still remember the helicopters buzzing my house at 3 am.
Vidal's nickname for Brown, in the aftermath of this? "The Lord of the Flies"
I think the voters weren't sophisticated enough to get it. Brown won the primary, then lost the Senate Race to Pete Wilson.
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29. Coast Ranger
VDH describes a family whose members were being trained to be free, virtuous Americans fit for our republican form of government. They worked very hard, supported themselves, were moral, and had a strong sense of the common good.
How many of us are raising children fit for freedom today?
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Those of us, like Prof. Hanson and myself, who admire John Keegan and dislike Gore Vidal, should nevertheless acknowledge that Vidal went to war in the US Navy for three years in the Pacific, and Keegan never served (he was
very ill as a child and was unfit for service). It doesn't change much but I do salute everyone who served in WWII.August 6, 2012 - 1:25 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
I also honor everyone who served in WWII, and every other war, but as you point out, Keegan was too sick to serve in the military. And not to take anything away from Vidal or anyone else who was in harm's way , but WWII was the last war that EVERYONE from all classes served. Few dodged that conflict, far fewer publicly. Movie stars and Major League baseball players signed up and encouraged others to as well. Howard Zinn served, so did George McGovern. Gore Vidal went, and should be honored along with all the others. But he was a still a terrible person and an over-rated writer.
August 7, 2012 - 8:19 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
31. greeneyeshade
In a joint tribute to Vidal and Buckley, Sam Tanenhaus observed in the New York Times that they both came out of the Taft Republican isolationist tradition, which is not without precedent. (In "The Colonel," his life of the Chicago Tribune's Robert McCormick, Richard Norton Smith reprinted an attack on NATO and the Marshall Plan that could have been made by George McGovern.)
But Tanenhaus left out something important.
Say what you like about the rest of Buckley's politics (asked by R. Emmett Tyrell Jr. why, if he called himself a conservative now, he didn't back in the 60s or 70s, Joseph Epstein said to look at National Review for those years. Works for me). But Buckley evidently did a lot to marginalize anti-Semitism on the mainstream American right, and Vidal did his little bit to legitimize it on the left.August 6, 2012 - 4:00 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
32. Rosa E.
What a fascinating portrait of two very different individuals. Thank you for your insights, Dr. Hanson–though I have to say I'm sitting here somewhat green with envy over your opportunity to meet so many famous (or infamous) personalities.
I was never able to read Vidal, I'm afraid. He could be witty, I think, but he wasn't nearly as witty as he thought he was, and he always seemed off-puttingly smug. Rest in peace, Mr. Vidal, but I'm afraid my mourning will be perfunctory at best . . .
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I agree about his smugness, but "Lincoln" and "Burr" are good historical novels, and probably easier to get through than "A Team of Rivals." It surprised me, given his superciliousness, how relatively straightforward the books were as history, both real and imagined.
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33. Xennady
Wow. Fascinating anecdotes from Dr. Hanson.
I thought that Gore Vidal died a long time ago. Whatevs.
John Keegan- I confess I wasn't a fan but since Dr. Hanson says nice things about him I feel I should reconsider. Peter Green- nice to see reference of him if only for his fiction which I have not read.
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34. T Renecky
VDH says: "A far better man — in both the ethical and literary sense — died this last week, Sir. John Keegan."
Historian David Irving sued historian Deborah Lipstadt for calling him a Holocaust denier. A trial ensued in which Keegan, under protest, was called. Keegan testified that he admired Irving's work, except for the issue of whether Hitler knew about the Holocaust. A small thing like that.
Keegan wrote of his Irving infatuation in the Daily Telegraph (Daily Telegraph (UK) ISSUE 1783 Wednesday 12 April 2000):
He is a large, strong, handsome man, excellently dressed, with the appearance of a leading QC. He performs as well as a QC also, asking, in a firm but courteous voice, precise questions which demonstrate his detailed knowledge of an enormous body of material.
Keegan compared the two:
Prof Lipstadt, by contrast, seems as dull as only the self-righteously politically correct can be. Few other historians had ever heard of her before this case. Most will not want to hear from her again. Mr Irving, if he will only learn from this case, still has much that is interesting to tell us.
Keegan was a snob, a moral midget, and a fool. Too bad VDH doesn't know, in this case, his history.
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35. Ron Robinson
Many, many works of both Keegan and Hanson proudly grace my shelves. Not a single work of Vidal is here although I vaguely recall discarding 1 or 2 of his paperbacks years ago. Closest to my heart are Hanson's books on the agricultural world and the moral education that comes from being a son of the soil. When a youngster, I helped with our 40 head of registered angus back in Oklahoma. Pigs and chickens rounded out the 'ranch' that was operated for purposes of my father's taxes. It's wasn't 'real agriculture' but I submit that the moral education for a youngster was identical – especially as Dad subcontracted much work to real local farmers and I saw the respect that he gave these men whose clothes were stained with transmission fluid and so forth. I am proud of that education. Sorry I missed your hike last Sat, Victor – I was going to be there but had to teach a seminar for a political party. Next year, I am hoping!
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36. Anson E. Long
"I confess this is the first time in my life I will break the old Hellenic rule: ton tethnvêkota mê kakologein (speak no ill of the dead). That Vidal was a cruel person is no excuse for not refraining from criticism after his recent death, but here I sin nonetheless."
This evokes something I ran across recently, possibly on this site, from "JPL17," who posted:
"Sorry, but when it comes to Gore Vidal, my mother taught me only to speak good of the dead. He's dead. Good."
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37. bill
I was unaware of John Keegan's passing until reading this column. Wonderful commentary. His books are of a few that remain on my shelf. An engaging speaker as well. Might have been a Brian Lamb interview with him about his book "Intelligence In War" that served as my introduction to him. Never really paid much attention to anyone named Gore.
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Quoted from cajun Paul,After reading through the latest posts I am curious. Is it possible to develop "adult" ADD? I was always a good student , loved learning, and received good grades.I don't think I was hyperactive but was always "tapping" my feet/fingers or jiggling my foot/leg as I sat. As I grew older:If I got excited about a subject I would sometimes stutter just a bit. When I am involved in conversation my thoughts stray as I try to describe details of my story...I basically get distracted and lose my place.When I try to multitask I seem to lose focus and then get frustrated.Is there such a thing or am I way off base?
Quoted from Joy Paul,I wanted to digest and assimilate your responses. Learning disabilities do tend to get "lumped together" in alot of people's minds when they hear the words. I feel that they assume its dyselxia or ADD with our without hyperactivity. Unless they have or know someone well who is dealing with any of these conditions is another thing. I do this myself with conditions I don't understand. Categorize it in your mind and that's that.Forgive me for misleading you with the phrase "surefire diagnosis". There are definite signs and ways in which a professional can tell if someone has a learning disability. My journey started with a book called "Driven to Distraction" back in 1996 (?). It was written by two psychologists who both had ADD and learned coping skills.I agree and like the turn of phrase "the human spirit cannot be uniformly contained". I will post more on this but I must do something now.JoyI am glad to hear that the method you chose by Dr. Tomatis worked. Of course, Dr. D'Adamo gives us the nutritional help for our brains and bodies to help us cope. Thank God for that I say.
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Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez Leave American Idol; Ten Musical Celebs Fit to Fill Their Seats
Part of the Idol family since 2011, Tyler said in a news release that he was returning to his first love: Aerosmith. Back with the band, he'll be releasing a new album, Music From Another Dimension, in November. "Idol was over the top fun, and I loved every minute of it," Tyler admitted in the release, adding, "Now it's time to bring Rock Back. ERMAHGERD." OMG indeed, Stevie.
Tyler's Idol counterpart, Jennifer Lopez, also decided to part ways with the show. In an on-air broadcast with tiny Ryan Seacrest -- which you can listen to here -- Lopez told her "dear friend" that "something has to give, and I think that's where I am right now." Yeah, Jen, those people at Fiat sure have you by the cheeks.
Amid speculation of who will fill the giant seats (and egos) of these dearly departed, we present our own list of ten guys and gals we'd love to see grace the Idol panel.
10. Mariah Carey
If there's one ass that can fill the seat Lopez left empty, it'd be Mariah's. Though Nick Cannon said Idol can't afford the new mom, we still have hope that the '90s bombshell will become a judge. It'd be a sweet, sweet fantasy come true.
If there were a former contestant fit to return to the Idol stage, Carrie Underwood'd be it. This lil country mama started by charming Simon but has since conquered the world of pop music with pure American talent.
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If there's one persistent problem with the iPhone, it's its desirability as a device. That shiny black and glass fascia, and user intuitive software really does appeal to us. Unfortunately, most of the time it also appeals to a different group of people. A group of people with the sole intention to steal. With the introduction of Mobile Me, we saw Apple try to combat this age-old situation, introducing for every one of it's users the ability to track their devices, directly from their online account from anywhere on the globe.
Before Apple showed it's hand though, there was one prolific company who were set on making tracking stolen devices – specifically iPhone's and Macintosh computers – their sole business. That company was of course Belgium-based software developers, Obicule. When their security software, Undercover, came to the iPhone, it hit the mainstream. But there were also the usual critics. See, the problem was that the software would only work as intended if the actual application was open on the stolen device. Today, Obicule are announcing what they deem to be a major update to Undercover for iPhone, version 1.5, and sees this exact launch-to-function issue, resolved. In a stark move, this update now adds adding the ability to remotely open the app on the stolen device.
So, How does it work? Well, Obicule have revealed that harnessing a clever use of push notifications, the user can remotely send the stolen device a push notification alert, (rather similar to 'Find My iPhone' on Mobile Me), therefore been able to ensure that the owner of the device can remotely open the application, allowing the tracking of the device. Upon registration at the Undercover Center, you'll be able to access your 'Undercover' account online, from anywhere, and once the app is activated, this account will store the devices location and IP information, allowing you to track it under the radar.
To me, this update from the company really proves the true potential of and how powerful Apple's Push Notification Service can be; and that if more developers put their mind to it, the service could in fact be used for more than just status updates and alerts. It seems the update is already live on the App Store, so if you are an Undercover user, I say go and grab it!
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