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.”
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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.
Greek I.44 AUDIO
Vowel stem nouns of third or consonant declension, prepositions as adverbss, and Partitive
Wednesday’s Child: Just a Couple of Quotes
“The Bolshevik mentality is as old as history. Cain, in the Old Testament, had the mind of a Bolshevik.”
Ignorant Bliss,
Revolutionary leftists are forever praising European social policies to the skies and condemning the rednecks who despise foreigners and the Americans who respect them without knowing one significant fact about any country, tradition, or person in any European country.
Augustine, Book II. 1-7
The second book of The Confessions is perhaps the best known, because it has given us the mythical story of a terribly dissolute young man who eventually overcame his carnal temptations.
Italian August 31 VOCABULARY
Let us prioritize our learning. The most important part of the lesson is the grammar, the least important is the reading. This week we can cut back the reading to about five pages. In addition, instead of trying to learn all the vocabulary, I’ll select the most important.
