Wednesday, January 26, 2022

End "Sports" that cause Brain Injury--

But I can't bring myself to disallow Australian-rules football, which is fun and exciting to watch, and must be fun as hell to play.

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

The Whitewashing Of Martin Luther King - SOME MORE NEWS

Marxist, I'd say, more than just communist. And in fact, in my maybe idiotic view, surprisingly righteous. Which is how surfer-dudes, those sun-gilt paragons of linguistic purity, say good/just/noble.

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Lady Geniuses,

or as might in these latter days be said, Genius Ladies, like--Sappho, Sei Shonagon, Sor Juana de la Cruz, Emily Dickinson, Marie de France, Colette, (and, my personal predilection) Françoise Sagan--as well as three or four of my favorite painters, are all identifiably female, and that has something ineffably to do with their being blazing geniuses, but you can't say exactly what. And I left out Mesdames de Sévigné et de Lafayette, George Sand, Germaine Greer, Virginia Wolfe, Carson McCullers, and Christine de Pisan, but the same irrelevant stereotype applies.