Category: Fleming
Link to New Publication
The Cornell Star has uncovered shocking evidence on the origin of Greek civilizaiton. Follow the link.
The Trumpery President
Virtually everything I read in the gutter press (Is there anything else?) is fabricated. Fake New is the only news, especially when it comes from the White House.
Read Along With Us
I am having to reread a lot of Victorian literature for this year’s Sumer School. If anyone wishes to join me, we can have some brief discussions. I am starting with Trollope’s rather dark novel, The Way We Live Now.
Poems: Two by Matthew Arnold
Two fine poems by Matthew Arnold who bravely spent his life upholding decency and high standards in a world that was abandoning them.
Italian III.15. Prepositions with infinitives, and taking time
Back from Italy and feeling the relief at not having to speak Italian all day long.
Grammar I: Infinitives are, as we all learned, verbal nouns.
Making War Hell
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;
Rainbow Stew
Merle Haggard was anything but a political thinker—or even a particularly good songwriter—but, with the exception of one unfortunate line—his 1981 hit song “Rainbow Stew” summed up the common wisdom of disgruntled Americans.
Podcast: Sorting Out the Latest Persian War
Tom Fleming and Jim Easton try to find some sense in the Peace President’s military adventure.
