The Great Debate at the End of the Universe
Before going to bed, I made the mistake of checking the news and found clips of “the debate.” I exhausted my vocbbulary of Americanisms drawn from Captain Billy’s Whizz Bang. Gee Whillikers. Holey Moley.
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Biden Abusing Overstretched U.S. Military for Foreign Policy Incompetence
One of the topics that ought to come up at the Thursday Biden-Trump debate, but won’t, is the fate of the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, CVN-69.
Wednesday’s Child: The Living City
A venerable old derelict who washed parked cars up and down the little street where I first lived in London had been born in a house next door to Winston Churchill’s. His only character flaw was drinking sixteen pints of bitter every evening, and as I never owned a car he felt he could talk to me with a frankness that rose above mercantile niceties.
Learn Italian, Lesson 3
This may be the last time I list all the vocabulary of the LL. If your set has not arrived, be sure to concentrate on the vocabulary and grammar I have presented in 1-3, because then you will only need to breeze through these lessons in LL.
The Stoic Revolution….
I keep my FB account for a few reasons. I do occasionally get news of distant friends. Sometimes I can also share something from the Fleming Foundation, in the hope–usually vain–that it will attract a new subscriber–who feels our work is worth the quarter or fifty cents a day we charge.
Learn Italian 2
Italian has two genders, masculine and feminine. While words pertaining to male (uomo, ragazzo, fratello, dottore) are usually masculine and words pertaining to female (donna, moglie, ragazza, dottoressa) are feminine, these are the only cases where grammatical gender has anything to do with sexuality.
The 6 Crises, “The U-2”
President Eisenhower’s response to the downing of the U-2 spy plane in 1960 exposed the dishonesty and incompetence of the government agency that never never never operates on American soil.
Learning Italian: Lesson One Audio
This is a crude first attempt. In future I hope to insert the audio into the lesson text If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments section.
Wednesday’s Child: Motive and Opportunity
One aspect of the present invasion of Ukraine, and of the causes that precipitated it, has gone virtually unremarked. Yet recent revelations consequent to the ongoing mass arrests in the highest echelons of the Russian military – an echo of Stalin’s purge of the Red Army on the eve of World War II – are shedding light on a murky chapter in the annals of this century’s history.
Machiavelli’s The Prince, IX-XIII
Although most of what Machiavelli says applies more to despotic regimes, he does indicate his support for what he calls in Latin a Principatus Civilis, a civil principality, that is one that respects the rights and traditions of citizens.
