Italian September 25 More Words AND VERBS
This week, I shall start out slow and try to post additions every day. Please tell me where you are in the Delitto
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Xi visits Trump and brings Sun Tzu – as China overtakes the U.S. to rule the world
President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington, D.C. this week for his first state visit since 2015 with President Barack Obama. This time Xi comes as a conqueror. China is No. 1, the U.S. has become No. 2
Wednesday’s Child: Taken at the Flood
I am reminded of a passage in A. J. P. Taylor’s English History.
Scamming Language Programs
Every day, I get a text or email or run across a “reel” on Facebook that says something like, “Quit saying ‘Sto bene,’ (or any one of dozens of everyday phrases, and then offers what real Italians say.”
WHY CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT SUPPORT “ISRAEL”
I, too, grew up believing that we must “support Israel” because God said so. I believed it because I was told that by influential people in my life. But it’s not in the Bible.
The Greek Conservative Mind
For over ten years I am have been working, intermittently, on a course of lectures and/or written chapters on aspects of Ancient Greek morality, social and political institutions, civilization, literature, and philosophy, that would present the ancient Greeks from a rather different perspective than either the current Marxist-feminist attack on ancient racist patriarchs or the old Liberal defense of the founders of democracy, secular reason, and progress.
Augustine’s Confessions, Book III EXPANDED 09/15! Natural Law
Augustine sees the most earthly desires as a feeble and dissolute shadow of the only reality, the Creator and His love for man who resists the love
Wednesday’s Child: An Ancestor Come to Light
I reason, however, that I’m but a step away from my seventieth year in this vale of tears and an old bore can always produce the plain and honest excuse that he is old.
Don’t vote, it only encourages them
My headline is an old libertarian quip: “Don’t vote, it only encourages them.” A more recent one is: “No matter whom we vote for, we get John McCain.”
San Francisco Bay Blues, Part 2: Chinese Guy, Ron Ronson, and The Armenians
These days, dishwashers are usually wearing headphones, which are a kind of progressive lobotomy, but in those days, they just minded their own business and could think their own thoughts, while as a waiter, I had to deal not just with cranky and befuddled old people, burnt out shells of what had once been human beings but with my fellow-waiters, most of whom were even less appealing.
