05 September 2015

The Quality of Silence

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[I am clearing out some old files I stored intending to post here and then forgetting about them. This one came from my last stay among the ...

Toynbee the Historian and the Seeker

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Toynbee was a seeker of spiritual truth. I am not sure that all historians, the good ones anyway, aren't. We understand the small truth ...
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29 August 2015

Clemens Notebook on Language: The book of the magicians

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I am going to keep up a series of quotes from various sources on language and linguistics, just because it interests me. The first one is fr...
22 August 2015

Southern aristocartic attitudes on Education return to haunt us

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Ever wonder why the people of a state, say North Carolina, might turn against public education? We've all been taught, and poor working ...
29 July 2015

Thomas Friedman and a few facts

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I don't always agree with Friedman but this column from today is worth reading for the raw facts it presents. I have never understood w...

The Republican Crack Up

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The Republican reliance on Tea-Party types to provide the oomph to their electoral efforts while delivering essentially nothing to them has ...
27 July 2015

My personal broken record

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Since the beginning of this blog it has always been "All our elites have failed." Still true and getting truer. I think it is a ...
20 July 2015

A little history on Greece

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Why are the modern Greeks so weird, so anti-American, so hapless? Interesting question. This may be a partial explanation, or at least an ...
08 July 2015

Clemens' Book Shelf

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I have been keeping a running list of things I have read or listened to lately. I'll put them up here, month by month. March 2015 Da...

What did Jesus want

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Well, Paul of Tarsus certainly tried to tell us. Here in 2 Corinthians 8: 7-15. ...but it is a question of a fair balance between your pr...