Take Five, 3: Five minutes of Supreme dissonance
Why Anthony Kennedy’s resignation matters–and why it doesn’t.
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Wednesday’s Child: Round the Mulberry
“A paradise can only ever accommodate one person,” says Andrea, a Sicilian of uncertain occupation who spends most of his time in Australia. “Imagine sharing it with someone like me.”
Take Five: Sarah Sanders and the Little Red Hen
Rex Scott and Thomas Fleming take on both Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the manager of the Red Hen
Bezos WaPo Robots Blast Record Fake News at Trump on ObamaCage Crisis
Even though the Trump Boom made him the richest man in the history of the galaxy, Jeff Bezos’ blog, a/k/a the Washington Post, screeched a record amount of Fake News Wednesday on what I’m calling the ObamaCage Crisis. The name comes from Trump inheriting the children in the ObamaCage crisis from Obama. Below I list the 23 stories on the crisis, or related to it, on WaPo’s Internet Front Page as of about 7:10 pm Pacific Time, June 20, 2018. I’ve provided the links to click for readers seeking extra amusement. The links are to the original stories, except for...
Poems of the Week: R.L. Stevenson for Children plus a wretched imitator
Some of my own childhood favorites from A Child’s Garden of Verses, plus a modernist poem possibly inspired by Stevenson.
Fleming Foundation’s Five Minutes: Separating Parents from Children
Welcome to the first installment of this new feature, available to all registered subscribers. Thomas Fleming and Rex Scott give 300 seconds on a big news story.
Beatnik Poetry Only Cherries (FREE)
“Only Cherries” Neo-Beatnik Rex Scott resuscitates the dead art of reading poetry to jazz accompaniment. Listen at your own risk
Poems of the Week: Henry Timrod
These poems of Henry Timrod, the finest poet of the War Between the States, are posted courtesy of Vince Cornell: Serenade Hide, happy damask, from the stars, What sleep enfolds behind your veil, But open to the fairy cars On which the dreams of midnight sail; And let the zephyrs rise and fall About her in the curtained gloom, And then return to tell me all The silken secrets of the room. Ah, dearest! may the elves that sway Thy fancies come from emerald plots, Where they have dozed and dreamed all day In hearts of blue forget-me-nots. And one...
Surviving the Sterility of Ideological Times by George Bagby
Solzhenitsyn endorses the agrarian, patriarchal, and authoritarian institutions of Russia’s past as good examples. These institutions, he says, “preserved moral health […] incomparably higher than that expressed today in simian radio music, pop songs and insulting advertisements: could a listener from outer space imagine that our planet had already known and left behind it Bach, Rembrandt and Dante?”
