tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post167556615296808272..comments2024-03-28T17:00:31.402+01:00Comments on Interim arrangements: have a guessSabinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09015827501648296977noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-19736511301960964482018-08-15T04:57:53.602+02:002018-08-15T04:57:53.602+02:00I'll listen to the podcast tomorrow. The Overt...I'll listen to the podcast tomorrow. The Overton effect is fascinating. And hello to whomever is reading here. Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-61944010214476507592018-08-13T09:34:52.780+02:002018-08-13T09:34:52.780+02:00Even stainless steel can rust. There's one kni...Even stainless steel can rust. There's one knife I sharpen every diet-day (no, not to cut my throat). I have now taken to sucking on quarter-oranges. To do this requires me to remove the central pith stem. Orange flesh "gives" very easily (a bit like tomato) and surgical sharpness is essential to avoid unnecessary pressure. A minor irritation but out-of-proportion given it's been added to my life. Additions like these are as welcome as warts when you've left three-score-years-and-ten way behind.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-7280231508708014212018-08-12T21:06:40.467+02:002018-08-12T21:06:40.467+02:00Very interesting! I will listen to the podcast whe...Very interesting! I will listen to the podcast when I'm in a place where I can give it the proper attention -- but I do like Fintan O'Toole (following your post of his column a few weeks ago, which I reposted to Facebook). I've never heard of the Overton window but that is a very interesting idea. I think this all goes way, way back to before Trump -- back to the early days of Rush Limbaugh, who began expanding the window by encouraging people to let their inner evils out.Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-72206088175404370542018-08-09T16:51:34.469+02:002018-08-09T16:51:34.469+02:00First they came for (insert ethnic group here), th...First they came for (insert ethnic group here), then they came for (insert gender here). Finally they came for us.<br /><br />Hello to your avid reader! :-)<br /><br />Greetings from London.A Cuban In Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16423293358605007539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-23905647480513611352018-08-08T16:12:03.775+02:002018-08-08T16:12:03.775+02:00carbon steel rusts but not stainless. knives used ...carbon steel rusts but not stainless. knives used to be made of carbon steel (I still have one or two) and they are sharp! stainless knives don't rust but they don't hold an edge either. I don't think you can get carbon steel knives anymore, something about the rust and safety regulations. ellen abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00535475792150335186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-62724223280844412032018-08-07T18:45:21.087+02:002018-08-07T18:45:21.087+02:00Steel does not rust. You've been conned. It...Steel does not rust. You've been conned. It's why these blades are such neat weapons even if they are used rarely for that specific purpose. You can let them sit all stainless and shiny in your kitchen until the right moment. <br />("Useful information gained from watching TV thrillers", chapter 17)Sabinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09015827501648296977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-24211476070214327412018-08-07T16:45:50.235+02:002018-08-07T16:45:50.235+02:00Better than cooking a meal for someone you don'...Better than cooking a meal for someone you don't love. Many homicides either start or end in the kitchen. I mean, all those blades from Solingen rusting from lack of use. If you've got 'em, flaunt 'em. Me, I blot out my boring occupation by improving our kitchen blades, thereby amortising the horrendous cost of the sharpening steel. It's impregnated with diamond dust. Industrial diamonds, alas. In the final analysis I'm a cheapo.<br /><br />What's that you say? Be relevant! It isn't my day for that. Month or year.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-21835431849882275062018-08-07T03:10:48.699+02:002018-08-07T03:10:48.699+02:00The podcast is chilling.
We are safe until we’re ...The podcast is chilling. <br />We are safe until we’re not. <br />Meaning none of us is safe. <br />Thank you for not looking away. 37paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400464105403622384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-60613937282233604222018-08-06T20:08:01.592+02:002018-08-06T20:08:01.592+02:00Thank you for this, Sabine. Although I read the r...Thank you for this, Sabine. Although I read the rest of your post before listening to the podcast, I then sat down to listen to it while getting close to finishing Mandala #32 and ended up listening to it twice. Along with that podcast, the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima is on my mind as well as a movie I just watched called "Hostiles," a dark story reflecting the United States in 1892, soon after the events at Wounded Knee, in the years following the Civil War, in the years preceding World War I, with roots of violence and revenge going far back into the history of the world as well as ancient roots of awakening to the futility of violence and revenge. Interesting that the movie was described as brutal but shallow by a writer from The Atlantic and praised by a writer from Indian Country News:<br /><br />http://www.indiancountrynews.com/index.php/columnists/sandra-hale-schulman/14508-hostiles-an-unflinching-look-at-history<br /><br />It's brutal but not shallow. It's timely.amhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212213177713917828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-41728568416971717532018-08-06T17:21:14.640+02:002018-08-06T17:21:14.640+02:00I will listen to the podcast some time today. Righ...I will listen to the podcast some time today. Right now I'm wondering how really awful things are going to get. Will we see a nuclear bomb detonated (here we are on the 73rd anniversary of Hiroshima)? How far will the fascists go to keep power? I never thought it would get this bad in my lifetime. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-24558115478089992172018-08-06T15:37:50.999+02:002018-08-06T15:37:50.999+02:00perhaps when I'm working later today. the rise...perhaps when I'm working later today. the rise of fascism so soon after the world was bent on getting rid of it is depressing. all those lives lost for what? human beings are seriously fucked up greedy little bastards. years ago I read an excellent essay of conservatism vs liberalism and how both ideologies are necessary in a culture. liberalism allows a culture to grow and change, prevent stagnation while conservatism keeps change from running out of control willy nilly, providing a solid base or something like that.ellen abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00535475792150335186noreply@blogger.com