Richard Savage, whose birthday falls in January, was a close friend of Johnson who celebrated his unfortunate life and death in prison from liver failure. This passage is from a longer satire “The Authors.” Note how brutally relevant are down to the last detail, e.g., the stupid press’s attack on inoculation and their cruelty toward the unfortunate.
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I recalled the episode, and the man, while perusing the British papers overflowing with the Royal Family scandal of the moment. Briefly, this centers on the person of the American mulatta C-list actress who has married the younger son of Prince Charles and is now blackmailing the Queen into releasing her and her husband from Royal duties
In deciding whether it would be just to retaliate against an act of aggression, we should also consider the nature of the intended target. Is it an old an honorable ally, whose current leadership has made a mistake or is it an inveterate enemy that has consistently transgressed the laws of nations? It makes a difference…
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Mike Bloomberg is pushing a campaign slogan, “Mike Can Do It,” which ripped off Jeb! Bush’s “Jeb Can Fix It” from four years ago. And Bloomberg is pushing “I Like Mike,” which rips off “I Like Ike” from Eisenhower’s 1952 and 1956 campaigns.
Greenies would like to terrify us into totalitarian measures designed to eliminate human civilization—if not humanity itself—from the planet. Manmade Global Climate Change (finally) is the latest proof that our way of life, especially our bourgeois individualism and weird attachment to private property, is evil.
As it is now Russian Christmas, let us be jolly. Besides, I have so fatigued the gentle reader of late with my special brand of gloom and doom, even a single ray of sunshine may restore him to the belief that Wednesday’s Child is not congenitally insensible to the lighter side of life.
The consequences of war are one of the elements in Christian theories of just war. Now, few Americans are sufficiently Christian as to take Christian arguments seriously. They may justly claim to have “joy joy joy” down in their hearts, but that joy will not prevent them from divorcing their wives, cheating on their taxes, or watching Hollywood movies
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