Category Archives: humanities

QotD

Daniel Webster: It is hardly too strong to say that the [US] Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.

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German-style adjectival phrases using Latin and English elements

I wonder why on-the-job training, at-will employment, ex-parte application, in-vitro fertilization are more usual than the better English training on the job, employment at will, application ex parte, fertilization in vitro. I also wonder why children say me and him … Continue reading

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my shining city

Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will [America’s] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the … Continue reading

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keep on saunterin’

Heard on the radio: June 19 is World Sauntering Day.

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the promised what?

Why Jews Don’t Farm. Link from Matthew Yglesias, whose commentors don’t think much of the essay.

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why is it always Leftists?

Act for Love — “because activists need love too . . . ‘take action, get action.’”

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a grand tradition

Idea for Ron Paul: attach a rider to Patriot II, to change the flag, because it has become customary to do so when instituting a new tyranny.

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