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Emily Dickinson, "The heart asks pleasure first..."

Wed, 07 May 2008 22:24:43 GMT

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Clip Source: inrethinking.blogspot.com

The heart asks pleasure first...

Emily Dickinson

The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes

That deaden suffering;

And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,

The liberty to die.

Tags: poetry, dickinson

Greg Gutfeld on writing for HuffPo

Wed, 07 May 2008 21:43:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From mediabistro.com.

Clip Source: www.mediabistro.com

I also liked my abortion joke page, my Roe v. Wade joke page. They didn't get it, but it was good. I really enjoyed doing that, because you actually get to create a sputtering rage where people can't even respond and are threatening you, and I learned from that, but I kind of already knew because I went to Berkeley, that the most tolerant people on the planet are also the most intolerant. They talk about peace and love, but if you disagree with them, they'll kill you. And that was when I started to get really weird, sinister emails from people attacking me and my family, and I thought, "You know I don't need this crap," but I kept doing it anyway and I kept confronting them in blogs to watch them get angrier and angrier, and it was really fun. But then I had to stop because I had to write a book and I thought, "They're not paying me, I had my fun." Sometimes I think about going back.

Tags: gutfeld, fox news, red eye, television, magazines, entertainment

Redesigning Public Spaces

Wed, 07 May 2008 21:18:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A blogger talks about the goals of planning, past and present.

Clip Source: orderdisorder.blogspot.com

Todays ever disconnected life style may very well be a result of a disconnected environment. As we built more and larger highways, people could live further and further apart. The very impetus of public life was no longer there, proximity of important buildings and the people that used them. Suburban life segregated use of land and split up the important buildings. Also, as cities emptied out, many of the buildings and reasons that would have attracted people there were also "emptied" out to the fringes of development as they were opened up by highways and a shifting population. If the public life so sought after today is so good, why was it so readily and willingly abandoned?

Tags: planning, development, politics, urban studies, cities

On Locke's First Treatise: Paternal and Regal Power

Wed, 07 May 2008 21:15:21 GMT

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Clip Source: federalistnowandforever.wordpress.com

Having completed his introduction of Sir Robert Filmer’s work Patriarcha, Locke endeavors to explore the arguments made by Filmer. The first argument made is that of Paternal and Regal power. The argument for absolute monarchy according to Locke is far above anything man can think of, so high in fact “that Promises and Oaths, which tye the infinite Deity, cannot confine it.” This is a curious way of describing the idea behind absolute monarchy but upon further inspection one might find that even God cannot be described as an absolute Monarch in the manner in which Filmer uses the words. But if Locke is able to demonstrate that the logic used for absolute monarchy is faulty, then man can start a new with government by consent; Locke ends with “using their Reason to unite together into Society.”

Tags: locke, politics, monarchy, royalty, paternity

Love and Freedom: On the Weakerthans' "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure"

Wed, 07 May 2008 21:10:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Are freedom and love reconcilable in today's world?

Clip Source: inrethinking.blogspot.com

The trouble is that we want to be independent and loved, and at some point one or the other has to give way. In the New World, knowledge is subordinate to strength which is freedom. The strongest of us is the most mobile - not the one who rules, or worse yet, simply loves. Both of the latter stand in a sense: one stands still and expects obedience, the other stands in an orbit. Both are pathetic.

Tags: weakerthans, music, lyrics, love, freedom, relationships