Month: November 2018
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Dems May Be Angry, But…
David Prentice suspects that ordinary Americans are also angry, and that there are more of them. [The Democrats’] rage is part scary, and part humorous. I just don’t know whether to laugh or cry on a daily basis. The left, and their media crazies, have devolved into a caricature. Part toddler, part sucker (for their…
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Guy Fawkes: Needed Now More Than Ever
Guy Fawkes arrested in the cellar of Parliament with the explosives. Remember, remember! The fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason, and plot; There is no reason Why the Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot!’ Early in the morning of November 5, Guy Fawkes crept, torch in hand, into the cellar beneath the House of Lords in…
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Not Cheap, But Awfully Cool
At Christie’s, and on-line auction November 8: In Isaac Newton’s own hand: In Latin, four full pages and three partial pages of text, on three bifolia, 203 x 155mm, the text on one page partially written in inverse orientation. Notes on the Turba Philosophorum, one of the most influential of all alchemical texts, a Latin…
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Stopped Talking to Her/Their/Zir Parents
Erika aka “Devon” Price. A lot of people on Facebook yesterday were marveling at, and laughing about, this leftie idiot‘s ideological derangement and her absolutely appalling Mount-Everest-sized shrill sense of self-entitlement. Her much-enduring and despite-all-her-bullshit loving family has evidently, for years and years, through what must have been a truly dreadful adolescence well into what-ought-to-be…
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Rembrandt Drawing
Rembrandt, Old Man Leaning on a Stick, 1632-1635, Robert Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum.
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St. Hubert’s Day
Samuel John Carter (1835-1892), Legend of St. Hubert, Private Collection (sold December 2007). Wikipedia: Saint Hubertus was born (probably in Toulouse) about the year 656. He was the eldest son of Bertrand, Duke of Aquitaine. As a youth, Hubert was sent to the Neustrian court of Theuderic III at Paris, where his charm and agreeable…
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Spoiled College-Educated Fashionistas Driving Democrat Party Left
Daniel Bonthius, actor and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supporter. Politico finds a watershed moment for the Democrat Party in New York’s widely-reported defeat of long-term incumbent congressman Joe Crowley by 28-year-old bartender Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Young, affluent, miseducated Dummer Junger representatives of the community of fashion are out-voting the older working class and minority democratic party constituencies and…
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Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center in 1933, before it was surrounded by tall buildings. ————————–