http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psychoactive_drug&oldid=15191998
This is by far the most useful thing I've ever found on Wikipedia, courtesy of "Thoric", in article "Psychoactive drugs": 20:11, 14 June 2005 Thoric (Talk contribs) (Replaced big list of drugs with this chart which I feel gives the average joe a better overview (let me know if anything is in the wrong place))
Friday, December 12, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
I miss you, old bloggy-blogg. As this blog was created by and for myself, it will always be thus, I imagine -- unlike the Jana-inspired livejournal and rara avis are we. Not that anyone has ever read it, ever. Ever?
But I have been living about one inch away from death recently -- but that's boring to me, I don't want to write about it. So instead I'll talk about some things that I find interesting. Well, actually, let me lay my cards out there: yesterday I chanced on a book called "The Perennial Philadelphians," published 1965, that really got me interested in that city and well the "proper" or right way to go about things. Here's the gist of what I got out of the book (and I fell asleep before I could finish): there are two ways of doing things. Three, actually.
(1) -- "U"
(2) -- It's called upper middle class but as they would call it in England I think, just middle class is fine. But still since everyone claims to be middle class, there has to be some distinction between this and...
(3) -- The LMC or proletariat.
Basically, (1) has style, (2) has intentionally a lack of style (which is in its own way an anti-style, or reactionary style, like punk to hippie, for ex.), and (3) thinks they have style but do not and are therefore laughed at. Ha ha.
**
So, Philadelphia is kind of a center of this nation. Washington DC is actually in the South (below Mason-dixon0), Baltimore is too, and New York is actually a part of New England province. Philadelphia however is right dead-center. And the old Episcoapl church there, Christ Church, is the "motehr churhc" o f the entiere country. That means that many of the bishop lineages stem from there. It was built in 1720ish.
Anyway. Taking Philadelphia as a basic starting point here (and of course this is all based on the book I read last night) we have the U and the UMC.
Here's a handy chart.
U UMC
Place to live The Main Line. Chestnut Hill (or Germantown?)
Holiday at Northeast Harbor. The Poconos
Religion Episcopalian. Quaker (or Lutheran?)
Schools Private day schools, Public schools/charter schools
New England
Episcopalian
boarding schools
9-12
Colleges Princeton. Penn
Careers Church, Law, Banking, & family firms.
Military,
Politics.
(*WOW THAT's really hard to read when published. Church military professor go together, Law banking etc go tehgetr)
The LMC clutches for the top ("U") but stumbles and fails miserably. No one in America is L except illegal immigrants. Since you can't tell which Hispanics are illegal and which aren't, let's just lump them all in that bottom 25%, sorry Genevievers. (But you're only half-Hispanic.) That's pretty outrageous, so let me just take that back. I don't want to be like Lou Dobbs over here. But it is kinda weird how they all stick together, no? They are almost forcing us to see them that way. Even the college-educated, for that I need only point to Gustavo Arellano. Of course, there's also Villaigarosa who would seem as a major counter-example. But I have no idea about him, know nothing. Is he really cool as he seems or is he not? This deserves answers. Without futher ado, I want to point out that for my orig. hometown of P.S., all the schools I went to (G.A.T.E. Cielo Vista/Raymond Cree, Palm Springs High School AP/Honors track) do in fact count. The college I would elect (nod to Genevieve here) is Whittier, and also Whittier Law.
The "Inland Valley Friends meeting," which is part of the Independent scheme of things (I think of them as being kind of Calvinist-leaning) meets at Riverside's gorgeous Mission Inn at 10 am Sunday. Just a heads up.
I belong to the Evangelical Free Church, well not officially, but un-officially. It's the denomination my grandparents (dad's father was long away in NorCal, mom's parents in the Midwest -- so I'm talking about my dad's mother and stepfather here) did their best to raise me in -- incl weekly, obligatory trips to the Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton when staying at their house (for both worship and Sunday school), to Southwest Community Church in Indian Wells when they were visiting us, and summer Bible camp. It is an American style in the tradition of the Prussian Lutheran-Calvinist combos, uniting both groups for the sake of national unity. I like that, you know? I certainly didn't feel judged on the (very ripe) possibility that I was an Obama supporter. (Wow, "Obama" still comes up as a spelling eror.) I have a lot of other boring crap to write about, give me time. Oh, and I went to the young adult ministry after the service -- Christian rock is really good, by the way, and someone gave a talk on fasting -- which is very pietist and surprised me. It turns out my grandparents chose a very nice church, one that wasn't evangelical-in-the-sense-of-being-politically-correct-(on-the-Republican-side)-at-all. Believe me, there are churches like that. Megachurches. There's one here in Fort Collins, and they own everybody. They are Pentecostal-Holiness, so that should be the tip off right there. Those guys are the worst of the worst. Yecch.
It's really hard to place the Lutherans, because they can go either way -- in the Catholic direction or in the Reformed direction. Mostly, they're something else, something apart, pre-split. So are the Anglicans, of course. But unlike the Anglicans, the Lutherans were religiously motivated in their split -- or at least Martin Luther was. And Henry VIII wasn't. I don't know if that makes the Lutherans more or less Protestant. I guess they basically did the samre hting -- I just checked Wiki. and the dudes practically lived the same time-span, except Luther was a wee bit younger, but not by much. (7 years, and he died a few months earlier too.)
This is borne out by the fact that the main Lutheran and Anglican groups in the U.S. are now like the sameth ing, that is sharing Holy Communion, or in Holy Communion. So, whatever, it doesn't matter. Except that the Quakers are kind of like the Lutherans, really, well no they're Anabaptists like the Mennonites and the Baptists. But I still feel that overall places them closer to the Lutherans than it does to the Calvinists (however I may be wrong about taht one). The same would go for the Methodists and Pentecostals then, I suppose, since they are also Pietist movements. But why are the Pentecostals so, so gay? Srsly. I guess it's more socioeconomic than anything else. Dare I attempt to throw the Protestants into U, UMC, LMC, and L categories? Oh, why the hell not.
U: "Liberal" (whether Unitarian or simply non-religious, regardless of liturgy, for ex. Anglo-Catholic King's parish in Boston)
UMC: Calvinist (does this make sense? I should say Evangelical. Presbyterian. Southern Baptists even.
LMC: Holiness (unforunately have to incl Quakers Methodists Lutherans in this one. Mi familia.
L: points to the Bishop of Rome, sorry you bleeding fucking Irish mongers.
This gets easier with politics. We have the example of political magazines. I remember opening up a Whole Earth catalog form the PS Lib years ago -- it had all the different viewpoints laid out:
LIBERAL (The Nation)
NEO-LIBERAL (The New Republic)
CONSERVATIVE (The National Review)
NEOCONSERVATIVE (Commentary, The Weekly Standard)
PALEOCONSERVATIVE (Chronicles)
Other liberal periodicals being like Harper's and the New York Review of Books. These guys are pretty "U."
T.N.R. OK is perfectly Neoliberal or perhaps Libertarian, we could put it in the UM category. Along with Reason Wired and the Libertarian Party. Ron Paul is not a libertarian, he is a paleoconservative.
Neoconservatives -- goodbye Bushies! -- are LMC.
Paleoconservatives -- Pat Buchanan is the exemplar and the only one who doesn't look like a freak (sorry folks). I guess Ron Paul's OK looking too. Don't know about the others. But um this is definitely a Lower Lower stuff.
Northwest = Neoliberal. Capital: San Francisco. Upper middle class.
Southwest = Neoconservative. Capital: Los Angeles. Lower middle class.
"The South" = Paleoconservative. Capital: the Beltway, Alexandria, Georgetown. Lower class.
The Northeast = Liberal. Capital: New England, Cambridge, Manhattan. Upper class duh
I guess if I'm confusedat about anthing it's what church to go to. I am definitely a Lutheran, but I don't know, is that UMC? I guess it can be; it all depends on how you do it. Also, two new publications: The American Prospect, is pan-Northern. Capital: Chicago, Ill.
The American Conservative, is pan-Southern. Capital: New Orleans, La.
But I have been living about one inch away from death recently -- but that's boring to me, I don't want to write about it. So instead I'll talk about some things that I find interesting. Well, actually, let me lay my cards out there: yesterday I chanced on a book called "The Perennial Philadelphians," published 1965, that really got me interested in that city and well the "proper" or right way to go about things. Here's the gist of what I got out of the book (and I fell asleep before I could finish): there are two ways of doing things. Three, actually.
(1) -- "U"
(2) -- It's called upper middle class but as they would call it in England I think, just middle class is fine. But still since everyone claims to be middle class, there has to be some distinction between this and...
(3) -- The LMC or proletariat.
Basically, (1) has style, (2) has intentionally a lack of style (which is in its own way an anti-style, or reactionary style, like punk to hippie, for ex.), and (3) thinks they have style but do not and are therefore laughed at. Ha ha.
**
So, Philadelphia is kind of a center of this nation. Washington DC is actually in the South (below Mason-dixon0), Baltimore is too, and New York is actually a part of New England province. Philadelphia however is right dead-center. And the old Episcoapl church there, Christ Church, is the "motehr churhc" o f the entiere country. That means that many of the bishop lineages stem from there. It was built in 1720ish.
Anyway. Taking Philadelphia as a basic starting point here (and of course this is all based on the book I read last night) we have the U and the UMC.
Here's a handy chart.
U UMC
Place to live The Main Line. Chestnut Hill (or Germantown?)
Holiday at Northeast Harbor. The Poconos
Religion Episcopalian. Quaker (or Lutheran?)
Schools Private day schools, Public schools/charter schools
New England
Episcopalian
boarding schools
9-12
Colleges Princeton. Penn
Careers Church, Law, Banking, & family firms.
Military,
Politics.
(*WOW THAT's really hard to read when published. Church military professor go together, Law banking etc go tehgetr)
The LMC clutches for the top ("U") but stumbles and fails miserably. No one in America is L except illegal immigrants. Since you can't tell which Hispanics are illegal and which aren't, let's just lump them all in that bottom 25%, sorry Genevievers. (But you're only half-Hispanic.) That's pretty outrageous, so let me just take that back. I don't want to be like Lou Dobbs over here. But it is kinda weird how they all stick together, no? They are almost forcing us to see them that way. Even the college-educated, for that I need only point to Gustavo Arellano. Of course, there's also Villaigarosa who would seem as a major counter-example. But I have no idea about him, know nothing. Is he really cool as he seems or is he not? This deserves answers. Without futher ado, I want to point out that for my orig. hometown of P.S., all the schools I went to (G.A.T.E. Cielo Vista/Raymond Cree, Palm Springs High School AP/Honors track) do in fact count. The college I would elect (nod to Genevieve here) is Whittier, and also Whittier Law.
The "Inland Valley Friends meeting," which is part of the Independent scheme of things (I think of them as being kind of Calvinist-leaning) meets at Riverside's gorgeous Mission Inn at 10 am Sunday. Just a heads up.
I belong to the Evangelical Free Church, well not officially, but un-officially. It's the denomination my grandparents (dad's father was long away in NorCal, mom's parents in the Midwest -- so I'm talking about my dad's mother and stepfather here) did their best to raise me in -- incl weekly, obligatory trips to the Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton when staying at their house (for both worship and Sunday school), to Southwest Community Church in Indian Wells when they were visiting us, and summer Bible camp. It is an American style in the tradition of the Prussian Lutheran-Calvinist combos, uniting both groups for the sake of national unity. I like that, you know? I certainly didn't feel judged on the (very ripe) possibility that I was an Obama supporter. (Wow, "Obama" still comes up as a spelling eror.) I have a lot of other boring crap to write about, give me time. Oh, and I went to the young adult ministry after the service -- Christian rock is really good, by the way, and someone gave a talk on fasting -- which is very pietist and surprised me. It turns out my grandparents chose a very nice church, one that wasn't evangelical-in-the-sense-of-being-politically-correct-(on-the-Republican-side)-at-all. Believe me, there are churches like that. Megachurches. There's one here in Fort Collins, and they own everybody. They are Pentecostal-Holiness, so that should be the tip off right there. Those guys are the worst of the worst. Yecch.
It's really hard to place the Lutherans, because they can go either way -- in the Catholic direction or in the Reformed direction. Mostly, they're something else, something apart, pre-split. So are the Anglicans, of course. But unlike the Anglicans, the Lutherans were religiously motivated in their split -- or at least Martin Luther was. And Henry VIII wasn't. I don't know if that makes the Lutherans more or less Protestant. I guess they basically did the samre hting -- I just checked Wiki. and the dudes practically lived the same time-span, except Luther was a wee bit younger, but not by much. (7 years, and he died a few months earlier too.)
This is borne out by the fact that the main Lutheran and Anglican groups in the U.S. are now like the sameth ing, that is sharing Holy Communion, or in Holy Communion. So, whatever, it doesn't matter. Except that the Quakers are kind of like the Lutherans, really, well no they're Anabaptists like the Mennonites and the Baptists. But I still feel that overall places them closer to the Lutherans than it does to the Calvinists (however I may be wrong about taht one). The same would go for the Methodists and Pentecostals then, I suppose, since they are also Pietist movements. But why are the Pentecostals so, so gay? Srsly. I guess it's more socioeconomic than anything else. Dare I attempt to throw the Protestants into U, UMC, LMC, and L categories? Oh, why the hell not.
U: "Liberal" (whether Unitarian or simply non-religious, regardless of liturgy, for ex. Anglo-Catholic King's parish in Boston)
UMC: Calvinist (does this make sense? I should say Evangelical. Presbyterian. Southern Baptists even.
LMC: Holiness (unforunately have to incl Quakers Methodists Lutherans in this one. Mi familia.
L: points to the Bishop of Rome, sorry you bleeding fucking Irish mongers.
This gets easier with politics. We have the example of political magazines. I remember opening up a Whole Earth catalog form the PS Lib years ago -- it had all the different viewpoints laid out:
LIBERAL (The Nation)
NEO-LIBERAL (The New Republic)
CONSERVATIVE (The National Review)
NEOCONSERVATIVE (Commentary, The Weekly Standard)
PALEOCONSERVATIVE (Chronicles)
Other liberal periodicals being like Harper's and the New York Review of Books. These guys are pretty "U."
T.N.R. OK is perfectly Neoliberal or perhaps Libertarian, we could put it in the UM category. Along with Reason Wired and the Libertarian Party. Ron Paul is not a libertarian, he is a paleoconservative.
Neoconservatives -- goodbye Bushies! -- are LMC.
Paleoconservatives -- Pat Buchanan is the exemplar and the only one who doesn't look like a freak (sorry folks). I guess Ron Paul's OK looking too. Don't know about the others. But um this is definitely a Lower Lower stuff.
Northwest = Neoliberal. Capital: San Francisco. Upper middle class.
Southwest = Neoconservative. Capital: Los Angeles. Lower middle class.
"The South" = Paleoconservative. Capital: the Beltway, Alexandria, Georgetown. Lower class.
The Northeast = Liberal. Capital: New England, Cambridge, Manhattan. Upper class duh
I guess if I'm confusedat about anthing it's what church to go to. I am definitely a Lutheran, but I don't know, is that UMC? I guess it can be; it all depends on how you do it. Also, two new publications: The American Prospect, is pan-Northern. Capital: Chicago, Ill.
The American Conservative, is pan-Southern. Capital: New Orleans, La.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
A cup of Chamomile from Utah w/ Colorado honey, a glass of OJ, and corn chips + Colorado salsa
...is what I have before me as I set down to type.
I'm supposedly fasting from everything but schoolwork for the moment...but that can get incredibly dry. So, to refresh myself, I simply willingly forget what it was I was supposed to be doing, and go along my merry way.
In reference to the foods above, I believe that the salt and vitamin C should help my in my weakness.
I'm finishing up Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, which I absolutely love.
I'm listening to Yawning Man (see Wikipedia), specifically their only released records, and Pot Head and Rock Formations, both downloaded as a torrent. This is desert music, incredibly popular in Europe. An article from the L.A. Weekly a while back had some revealing stuff on them. Basically, they were Kyuss before Kyuss, a stoner/desert/Palm Desert band even more epochal than that later one (and Kyuss were epochal, in the opinion of many they actually revived rock, and were the most vital thing -- perhaps the only vital thing -- going in that world until this whole nu-rave thing came about. An interesting connection, because the whole generator party '80s scene of mushrooms and pot that existed in the desert back then seems intimately connected with the later early '90s rave scene, which I do believe existed. Growing up as late as I did, I was on the shit end of all of that. By the time I was in high school (1999ish) ecstasy was well almost out of vogue (it didn't really hit the fan until 2000 or 2001), and pot and 'shrooms certainly were ... Yep. And then came crystal meth, which of course had been brewing in the L.A. rave scene since 1994 at least when trance first came in. And of course there's the whole moontribe connection. In fact I think that's the tail end (the hippy end ) of the L.A. rave scene that is actually just now coming into full flower and bloom. The whole psychedelic trance thing. It's definitely the only social scene still worth giving a fuck for -- maybe that's why it's popular with Prince William and other members of the English landed aristocracy, or so I hear... Btw, the moontribe album is highly recommended for a taste of what the hell I'm talking about. I believe it came out in 1998. So good.
So where was I? Psychedelic rock turned into ecstatic rave turned into crystal meth deadzone? Sounds about right. Anyway, Yawning Man were a real proto-rave scene in the desert, with links to the Grateful Dead of course naturally but being much more in a heavy metal/Euro-ish sort of thing, sort of like Goa. I suppose that's why the whole desert rock thing is so wildly popular in Europe, especially Yawning Man and Brant Bjork. They play in Italy and Spain, and their music is released only on Spanish labels. Only emo is as popular here. Of course I guess it is metal we're talking about here. Nothing revolutionary, then, just a heartfelt and unique attention to place. So I'm really back on the whole organic/back-to-the-land/neo-Nazi thing that everybody else is so keen to get it on. Well, I never really left. It's going to take a long time to extricate myself from some of these positions ideologically, and if I'm anything like Nietzsche, it will likely all be in vain (but perhaps not in the long run -- witness the almost subdued, renewed sympathy for the man existing in some European philosophe circles today, and even Heidegger -- not because they were right; they weren't -- but they understood what they were getting into and felt it had to be done all the same, an honorable position...) (Actually, I think they were right; that's why they felt they had to do what they had to do -- however, they were dangerous and worse they were not respectable. They were even a little bourgeois. When it comes right down to it, I mean. This is why I think the way of the future lies not with old fogies such as me, Heidegger, or Nietzsche but with radical Islam. Oh yes. Evangelical Christianity and Radical Islam have so much in common, they have to hook up. I can't believe they haven't already -- unless all this fighting is just the global religious equivalent of the boy pulling the girl's hair and throwing mud at her (and to be sure, Islam is the male in this relationship!) before they start dating later on. It shall be interesting to see. There's only one God, after all. Unless you're a heathen, like me. We'll continue to exploit the divisions between the two big religions, usually falling on the side of Islam, until we are forced to walk the plank. I kind of just see it all as a neverending story.)
I'm supposedly fasting from everything but schoolwork for the moment...but that can get incredibly dry. So, to refresh myself, I simply willingly forget what it was I was supposed to be doing, and go along my merry way.
In reference to the foods above, I believe that the salt and vitamin C should help my in my weakness.
I'm finishing up Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, which I absolutely love.
I'm listening to Yawning Man (see Wikipedia), specifically their only released records, and Pot Head and Rock Formations, both downloaded as a torrent. This is desert music, incredibly popular in Europe. An article from the L.A. Weekly a while back had some revealing stuff on them. Basically, they were Kyuss before Kyuss, a stoner/desert/Palm Desert band even more epochal than that later one (and Kyuss were epochal, in the opinion of many they actually revived rock, and were the most vital thing -- perhaps the only vital thing -- going in that world until this whole nu-rave thing came about. An interesting connection, because the whole generator party '80s scene of mushrooms and pot that existed in the desert back then seems intimately connected with the later early '90s rave scene, which I do believe existed. Growing up as late as I did, I was on the shit end of all of that. By the time I was in high school (1999ish) ecstasy was well almost out of vogue (it didn't really hit the fan until 2000 or 2001), and pot and 'shrooms certainly were ... Yep. And then came crystal meth, which of course had been brewing in the L.A. rave scene since 1994 at least when trance first came in. And of course there's the whole moontribe connection. In fact I think that's the tail end (the hippy end ) of the L.A. rave scene that is actually just now coming into full flower and bloom. The whole psychedelic trance thing. It's definitely the only social scene still worth giving a fuck for -- maybe that's why it's popular with Prince William and other members of the English landed aristocracy, or so I hear... Btw, the moontribe album is highly recommended for a taste of what the hell I'm talking about. I believe it came out in 1998. So good.
So where was I? Psychedelic rock turned into ecstatic rave turned into crystal meth deadzone? Sounds about right. Anyway, Yawning Man were a real proto-rave scene in the desert, with links to the Grateful Dead of course naturally but being much more in a heavy metal/Euro-ish sort of thing, sort of like Goa. I suppose that's why the whole desert rock thing is so wildly popular in Europe, especially Yawning Man and Brant Bjork. They play in Italy and Spain, and their music is released only on Spanish labels. Only emo is as popular here. Of course I guess it is metal we're talking about here. Nothing revolutionary, then, just a heartfelt and unique attention to place. So I'm really back on the whole organic/back-to-the-land/neo-Nazi thing that everybody else is so keen to get it on. Well, I never really left. It's going to take a long time to extricate myself from some of these positions ideologically, and if I'm anything like Nietzsche, it will likely all be in vain (but perhaps not in the long run -- witness the almost subdued, renewed sympathy for the man existing in some European philosophe circles today, and even Heidegger -- not because they were right; they weren't -- but they understood what they were getting into and felt it had to be done all the same, an honorable position...) (Actually, I think they were right; that's why they felt they had to do what they had to do -- however, they were dangerous and worse they were not respectable. They were even a little bourgeois. When it comes right down to it, I mean. This is why I think the way of the future lies not with old fogies such as me, Heidegger, or Nietzsche but with radical Islam. Oh yes. Evangelical Christianity and Radical Islam have so much in common, they have to hook up. I can't believe they haven't already -- unless all this fighting is just the global religious equivalent of the boy pulling the girl's hair and throwing mud at her (and to be sure, Islam is the male in this relationship!) before they start dating later on. It shall be interesting to see. There's only one God, after all. Unless you're a heathen, like me. We'll continue to exploit the divisions between the two big religions, usually falling on the side of Islam, until we are forced to walk the plank. I kind of just see it all as a neverending story.)
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Red = 'Piscop. Passion, strength, energy, fire, love, sex, excitement, speed, heat, arrogance, ambition, leadership, masculinity, power, danger, gaudiness, blood, war, anger, revolution, radicalism, socialism, communism, aggression, summer, autumn, stop, Mars, respect, Aries, December, the Roman Catholic Church, martyrs, the Holy Spirit.
Bob Dole (Republican '96), George Wallace (American Independent '68), Barry Goldwater (Republican '64), Byrd (Independent '60), Adlai Stevenson (Democratic '52, '56), Strom Thurmond (States' Rights Democratic '48), Al Smith (Democratic '28), Davis (Democratic '24), Cox (Democratic '20), Parker (Democratic 1904), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic 1896, 1900, 1908), Hancock (Democratic 1880), Breckinridge (Southern Democratic 1860), James Buchanan (Democratic 1856), James K. Polk (Democratic 1844), Andrew Jackson (1824).
Orange = Baptist. Hinduism, Buddhism, happiness energy, balance, heat, fire, enthusiasm, flamboyance, playfulness, aggression, arrogance, gaudiness, overemotion, warning, danger, autumn, desire, Sagittarius, September.
W, Jimmy Carter (Democratic '76), FDR (Democratic '32), Woodrow Wilson (Democratic '16), Cass (Democratic 1848), Andrew Jackson (Democratic 1828, 1832), James Monroe (Democratic-Republican 1816), James Madison (Democratic-Republican 1808, 1812), Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican 1796, 1800, 1804).
Yellow = Baptodysterian. Sunlight, joy, happiness, earth, optimism, intelligence, idealism, wealth (gold), summer, hope, air, liberalism, cowardice, illness (quarantine), hazards, dishonesty, avarice, weakness, greed, femininity, gladness, sociability, friendship, GEmini, Taurus, Leo, April, September, deceit, hazard signs, God (gold). The devil. Courage.
Richard M. Nixon (Republican '60, '68), Harry S Truman (Democratic, '48), Dewey (Republican, '44), Benjamin Harrison (Republican 1888, 1892), Blaine (Republican 1884), Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican 1876), William Henry Harrison (Whig 1836), Henry Clay (1824).
Green = Methodist. Great intelligence, life, nature, bad spirits, spring, fertility, youth, environment, wealth, money, good luck, vigor, generosity, go, grass, agression, inexperience, envy, misfortune, coldness, jealousy, illness, greed, disgrace, life eternal, air, earth (classical element), sincerity, hope, Cancer (bright green), renewal, natural abundance, growth, health, August, balance, harmony, calming, creative intelligence, Islam, the ordinary. The devil.
Bill Clinton (Democratic '92, '96), LBJ (Democratic '64), Dwight David Eisenhower (Republican '52, '56), Herbert Hoover (Democratic 1928), Calvin Coolidge (Republican '24), Warren G. Harding (Republican '20), William Taft (Republican 1908), Teddy Roosevelt (Republican 1904), William McKinley (Republican 1896, 1900), Garfield (Republican 1880), Ulysses S Grant (Republican 1868), Abraham Lincoln (Republican 1860, 1864), Fremont (Republican 1856), Henry Clay (Whig 1844).
Blue = Unitarian & Congregationalist. Seas, men, productive, skies, peace, unity, harmony, tranquility, calmness,coolness, confidence, conservatism, water, ice, loyalty, dependability, cleanliness, technology, winter, depression, coldness, idealism, obscenity, tackiness, air, wisdom, royalty, nobility, Earth, Virgo light blue), Pisces (pale blue), Aquarius (dark blue), strength, steadfastness, light, friendliness, July (sky), February (deep), peace, mourning , truthfulness, love, sadness, aloofness, the Virgin Mary, keeps bad spirits away.
John Kerry (Democratic 2004), Al Gore (Democratic 2000), Gerald Ford (Republican '76), Hubert Humphrey (Democratic '68), JFK (Democratic '60), Dewey (Republican '48), Herbert Hoover (Republican '32), Charles Evans Hughes (Republican '16), Taylor (Whig 1848), Henry Clay (National Republican 1832), John Quincy Adams (1824, National Republican 1828), Rufus King (Federalist 1816), De Witt Clinton (1812), Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Federalist 1804, 1808), John Adams (Federalist 1796, 1800).
Purple = Unitarian & Congregtionalist & 'Piscop. Envy, sensuality, bisexuality, spirituality, creativity, wealth, royalty, nobility, ceremony, mystery, wisdom, homosexuality, pride, Scorpio (violet), May, November, riches, romanticism (light purple), delicacy (light purple), penance.
George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican '88, '92), Reagan (Republican '80, '84), Richard M. Nixon (Republican '72), FDR (Democratic '36, '40, '44; not popular with Baptodysterians in '44), Woodrow Wilson (Democratic 1912), Grover Cleveland (Democratic 1884, 1888, 1892; not popular with Baptodysterians), Tilden (Democratic 1876; not popular with Baptodysterians), Ulysses S Grant (Republican 1872), Franklin Pierce (Democratic 1852), William Henry Harrison (Whig 1840), Martin Van Buren (Democratic 1836; not popular with Baptodysterians), James Monroe (Democratic-Republican 1820), George Washington (1789, 1792).
Bob Dole (Republican '96), George Wallace (American Independent '68), Barry Goldwater (Republican '64), Byrd (Independent '60), Adlai Stevenson (Democratic '52, '56), Strom Thurmond (States' Rights Democratic '48), Al Smith (Democratic '28), Davis (Democratic '24), Cox (Democratic '20), Parker (Democratic 1904), William Jennings Bryan (Democratic 1896, 1900, 1908), Hancock (Democratic 1880), Breckinridge (Southern Democratic 1860), James Buchanan (Democratic 1856), James K. Polk (Democratic 1844), Andrew Jackson (1824).
Orange = Baptist. Hinduism, Buddhism, happiness energy, balance, heat, fire, enthusiasm, flamboyance, playfulness, aggression, arrogance, gaudiness, overemotion, warning, danger, autumn, desire, Sagittarius, September.
W, Jimmy Carter (Democratic '76), FDR (Democratic '32), Woodrow Wilson (Democratic '16), Cass (Democratic 1848), Andrew Jackson (Democratic 1828, 1832), James Monroe (Democratic-Republican 1816), James Madison (Democratic-Republican 1808, 1812), Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican 1796, 1800, 1804).
Yellow = Baptodysterian. Sunlight, joy, happiness, earth, optimism, intelligence, idealism, wealth (gold), summer, hope, air, liberalism, cowardice, illness (quarantine), hazards, dishonesty, avarice, weakness, greed, femininity, gladness, sociability, friendship, GEmini, Taurus, Leo, April, September, deceit, hazard signs, God (gold). The devil. Courage.
Richard M. Nixon (Republican '60, '68), Harry S Truman (Democratic, '48), Dewey (Republican, '44), Benjamin Harrison (Republican 1888, 1892), Blaine (Republican 1884), Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican 1876), William Henry Harrison (Whig 1836), Henry Clay (1824).
Green = Methodist. Great intelligence, life, nature, bad spirits, spring, fertility, youth, environment, wealth, money, good luck, vigor, generosity, go, grass, agression, inexperience, envy, misfortune, coldness, jealousy, illness, greed, disgrace, life eternal, air, earth (classical element), sincerity, hope, Cancer (bright green), renewal, natural abundance, growth, health, August, balance, harmony, calming, creative intelligence, Islam, the ordinary. The devil.
Bill Clinton (Democratic '92, '96), LBJ (Democratic '64), Dwight David Eisenhower (Republican '52, '56), Herbert Hoover (Democratic 1928), Calvin Coolidge (Republican '24), Warren G. Harding (Republican '20), William Taft (Republican 1908), Teddy Roosevelt (Republican 1904), William McKinley (Republican 1896, 1900), Garfield (Republican 1880), Ulysses S Grant (Republican 1868), Abraham Lincoln (Republican 1860, 1864), Fremont (Republican 1856), Henry Clay (Whig 1844).
Blue = Unitarian & Congregationalist. Seas, men, productive, skies, peace, unity, harmony, tranquility, calmness,coolness, confidence, conservatism, water, ice, loyalty, dependability, cleanliness, technology, winter, depression, coldness, idealism, obscenity, tackiness, air, wisdom, royalty, nobility, Earth, Virgo light blue), Pisces (pale blue), Aquarius (dark blue), strength, steadfastness, light, friendliness, July (sky), February (deep), peace, mourning , truthfulness, love, sadness, aloofness, the Virgin Mary, keeps bad spirits away.
John Kerry (Democratic 2004), Al Gore (Democratic 2000), Gerald Ford (Republican '76), Hubert Humphrey (Democratic '68), JFK (Democratic '60), Dewey (Republican '48), Herbert Hoover (Republican '32), Charles Evans Hughes (Republican '16), Taylor (Whig 1848), Henry Clay (National Republican 1832), John Quincy Adams (1824, National Republican 1828), Rufus King (Federalist 1816), De Witt Clinton (1812), Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Federalist 1804, 1808), John Adams (Federalist 1796, 1800).
Purple = Unitarian & Congregtionalist & 'Piscop. Envy, sensuality, bisexuality, spirituality, creativity, wealth, royalty, nobility, ceremony, mystery, wisdom, homosexuality, pride, Scorpio (violet), May, November, riches, romanticism (light purple), delicacy (light purple), penance.
George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican '88, '92), Reagan (Republican '80, '84), Richard M. Nixon (Republican '72), FDR (Democratic '36, '40, '44; not popular with Baptodysterians in '44), Woodrow Wilson (Democratic 1912), Grover Cleveland (Democratic 1884, 1888, 1892; not popular with Baptodysterians), Tilden (Democratic 1876; not popular with Baptodysterians), Ulysses S Grant (Republican 1872), Franklin Pierce (Democratic 1852), William Henry Harrison (Whig 1840), Martin Van Buren (Democratic 1836; not popular with Baptodysterians), James Monroe (Democratic-Republican 1820), George Washington (1789, 1792).
Friday, April 18, 2008
Quaker
Peaceful Heart Sangha. Sundays 4-6 pm, leave at 3:13 pm. Go west from house on right side of Kirkwood to Lemay; take a right on Lemay, staying in the bike lane until you hit Stuart. Take a left on Stuart, into the right hand bike lane. Go west on Stuart until you hit Remington; take a right turn on Remington (staying in the bike lane), going north until Laurel. Take a left turn on Laurel (into the right hand bike lane), going west. At Armstrong, take a left into the west side parking lot. Park. Look for the entrance on the WEST side of the Lory North Apartments. The lounge is on the garden level, so if there is no one waiting at the door just knock on the garden level windows to the right of the door.
On the way back, go right on Laurel, staying in the bike lane, take a right on Loomis or Meridian, going south onto the designated bike lane (STAYING RIGHT). Take a left on the multiuse path onto the right hand side, then go straight when the next left appears. Keep going straight through the next intersection, and stay on the multiuse path until you get to Center Ave. Go straight, south, till you hit the Spring Creek Trail on your left (right hand side). Take that till you hit Stuart going east on your right. Stay in the bike lane on Stuart back the way you came -- taking a right hand turn onto Lemay, staying in the bike lane, and then taking a left at Kirkwood onto the right hand side of the street to your house.
Study agriculture -- animal science. If anything.
Eat to live, do not live to eat. That's like a man, but this below a beast.
Have wholesome but not costly food.
If thou rise with an appetite, thou are sure never to sit down without one.
The proverb says that "enough is as good as a feast." but it is certainly better . . .
The luxurious eater and drinker who is taken up with an excessive care of his palate and belly. . . . so full is he fed that he can scarce find out a stomach . . .
Rarely drink but when thou art dry; nor then, between meals, if it can be avoided.
The smaller the drink, the clearer the head and the cooler the blood, which are great benefits in temper and business.
Strong liquors are good at some times and in small proportions, being better for physic than food, for cordials than common use (herbsaint is best).
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is the worst sort: it spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men; it reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man, because he is so long void of reason, that distinguishes a man from a beast.
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures . . . as it is a prodigal one to spend more in sauce than in meat.
The most common things are the most useful, which shows both the wisdom and goodness of the great Lord . . .
What therefore he has made rare, don't thou use too commonly, lest thou shouldst invert the use and order of things . . .
Quakers refused to touch foods that were tainted by social evil . . . many practiced some small act of symbolic sacrifice.
The Quaker prefers to boil his food (cooking pot rather than the oven).
Boiled breakfast, boiled dinner. "In the country, morning and even repasts were generally made of milk, having bread boiled therein, or else thickened with pop-robbins--things made up of flour and eggs into a batter, and so dropped in the boiling milk" Popovers, served at breakfast or tea or with meats and lunch and dinner
Boiled dumplings and puddings. Apple dumplings were a daily dish.
When I am parasite-free: daily I will eat Popovers and dumplings of any kind -- homemade or otherwise apple dumplings (for breakfast and dessert, with ice cream). I will also eat puddings of any kind - Hunt's Snack Packs - puddings [CHOCOLATE PUDDING, Butterscotch, Vanilla] Jell-O chocolate pudding, Jell-O tapioca pudding, Philadelphia cream cheese spread on bread/bagels/crackers, homemade or otherwise apple cheese, homemade or otherwise lemon curd (w/scones, muffins, short breads)/lemon meringue pie, dried beef (often spread on dumplings and puddings).
Full Shopping List:
1. popovers: flour, eggs, milk
2. apple dumplings: four tart (such as Granny Smith) apples, raisins, dark rum, flour, Crisco, brown sugar
3. ice cream
4. Hunt's Snack Packs - 1. Chocolate Pudding, 2. Butterscotch Pudding, 3. Vanilla Pudding.
5. Jell-O Chocolate Pudding & Tapioca Pudding.
6. Philadelphia Cream Cheese [if needed]
- bread, bagels, crackers
8. lemon curd: three lemons, lemon juice, sugar, eggs, butter
- scones, shortbreads, muffins
9. dried beef.
10. Herbsaint.
Principally, flour, eggs, milk, Granny Smith apples, raisins, dark rum, Crisco, brown sugar, ice cream, Hunt's Chocolate Pudding, Hunt's Butterscotch Pudding, Hunt's Vanilla Pudding, Jell-O Chocolate Pudding, Jell-O Tapioca Pudding, Philadelphia cream cheese, bagels, lemons, lemon juice, butter, muffins, dried beef, Herbsaint.
Other stuff: pizza, hot dogs, beans, cherries, blueberries, cranberries, sausage, cheese.
Simple trousers of broad cut/wide. Large leather aprons. Gray. Only 2 types of dress for men, all year [one for meditation, one for work]. Very plain, simple. Dyes discouraged. Neatness, cleanliness encouraged.
No needless games, ball games, public diversions, prizes/stage plays/cards/dice/may games/masques/revels/bull-baitings/cock-fightings/bear-baitings/etc, blood sports, horse racing, other races. Encouraged swimming, bathing, ice-skating; allowed hunting and fishing for subsistence, most characteristic form of recreation was gardening. Penn: "The best recreation is to do good." Play was work,
and work was worship. worldly asceticism -- commercial and industrial activity. coopers, smths, blacksmiths, bricklayers, wheelwrights, plowrights, millwrights, ship carpenters, iron-houses, cloth workers. etc You already know how to be a Quaker, since you are one.
Rule no. 1 -- you know what it is.
[For parasties and constipation] Glass of water -- upon waking in the morning, at 9am, at 12pm, at 3pm, at 6pm, and before bedtime.
[Do not shave, cut hair.]
when windows are open (Apr 15 to Oct 15, say) you can open them from after dinner, but you must shut them upon getting up.
On the way back, go right on Laurel, staying in the bike lane, take a right on Loomis or Meridian, going south onto the designated bike lane (STAYING RIGHT). Take a left on the multiuse path onto the right hand side, then go straight when the next left appears. Keep going straight through the next intersection, and stay on the multiuse path until you get to Center Ave. Go straight, south, till you hit the Spring Creek Trail on your left (right hand side). Take that till you hit Stuart going east on your right. Stay in the bike lane on Stuart back the way you came -- taking a right hand turn onto Lemay, staying in the bike lane, and then taking a left at Kirkwood onto the right hand side of the street to your house.
Study agriculture -- animal science. If anything.
Eat to live, do not live to eat. That's like a man, but this below a beast.
Have wholesome but not costly food.
If thou rise with an appetite, thou are sure never to sit down without one.
The proverb says that "enough is as good as a feast." but it is certainly better . . .
The luxurious eater and drinker who is taken up with an excessive care of his palate and belly. . . . so full is he fed that he can scarce find out a stomach . . .
Rarely drink but when thou art dry; nor then, between meals, if it can be avoided.
The smaller the drink, the clearer the head and the cooler the blood, which are great benefits in temper and business.
Strong liquors are good at some times and in small proportions, being better for physic than food, for cordials than common use (herbsaint is best).
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is the worst sort: it spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men; it reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man, because he is so long void of reason, that distinguishes a man from a beast.
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures . . . as it is a prodigal one to spend more in sauce than in meat.
The most common things are the most useful, which shows both the wisdom and goodness of the great Lord . . .
What therefore he has made rare, don't thou use too commonly, lest thou shouldst invert the use and order of things . . .
Quakers refused to touch foods that were tainted by social evil . . . many practiced some small act of symbolic sacrifice.
The Quaker prefers to boil his food (cooking pot rather than the oven).
Boiled breakfast, boiled dinner. "In the country, morning and even repasts were generally made of milk, having bread boiled therein, or else thickened with pop-robbins--things made up of flour and eggs into a batter, and so dropped in the boiling milk" Popovers, served at breakfast or tea or with meats and lunch and dinner
Boiled dumplings and puddings. Apple dumplings were a daily dish.
When I am parasite-free: daily I will eat Popovers and dumplings of any kind -- homemade or otherwise apple dumplings (for breakfast and dessert, with ice cream). I will also eat puddings of any kind - Hunt's Snack Packs - puddings [CHOCOLATE PUDDING, Butterscotch, Vanilla] Jell-O chocolate pudding, Jell-O tapioca pudding, Philadelphia cream cheese spread on bread/bagels/crackers, homemade or otherwise apple cheese, homemade or otherwise lemon curd (w/scones, muffins, short breads)/lemon meringue pie, dried beef (often spread on dumplings and puddings).
Full Shopping List:
1. popovers: flour, eggs, milk
2. apple dumplings: four tart (such as Granny Smith) apples, raisins, dark rum, flour, Crisco, brown sugar
3. ice cream
4. Hunt's Snack Packs - 1. Chocolate Pudding, 2. Butterscotch Pudding, 3. Vanilla Pudding.
5. Jell-O Chocolate Pudding & Tapioca Pudding.
6. Philadelphia Cream Cheese [if needed]
- bread, bagels, crackers
8. lemon curd: three lemons, lemon juice, sugar, eggs, butter
- scones, shortbreads, muffins
9. dried beef.
10. Herbsaint.
Principally, flour, eggs, milk, Granny Smith apples, raisins, dark rum, Crisco, brown sugar, ice cream, Hunt's Chocolate Pudding, Hunt's Butterscotch Pudding, Hunt's Vanilla Pudding, Jell-O Chocolate Pudding, Jell-O Tapioca Pudding, Philadelphia cream cheese, bagels, lemons, lemon juice, butter, muffins, dried beef, Herbsaint.
Other stuff: pizza, hot dogs, beans, cherries, blueberries, cranberries, sausage, cheese.
Simple trousers of broad cut/wide. Large leather aprons. Gray. Only 2 types of dress for men, all year [one for meditation, one for work]. Very plain, simple. Dyes discouraged. Neatness, cleanliness encouraged.
No needless games, ball games, public diversions, prizes/stage plays/cards/dice/may games/masques/revels/bull-baitings/cock-fightings/bear-baitings/etc, blood sports, horse racing, other races. Encouraged swimming, bathing, ice-skating; allowed hunting and fishing for subsistence, most characteristic form of recreation was gardening. Penn: "The best recreation is to do good." Play was work,
and work was worship. worldly asceticism -- commercial and industrial activity. coopers, smths, blacksmiths, bricklayers, wheelwrights, plowrights, millwrights, ship carpenters, iron-houses, cloth workers. etc You already know how to be a Quaker, since you are one.
Rule no. 1 -- you know what it is.
[For parasties and constipation] Glass of water -- upon waking in the morning, at 9am, at 12pm, at 3pm, at 6pm, and before bedtime.
[Do not shave, cut hair.]
when windows are open (Apr 15 to Oct 15, say) you can open them from after dinner, but you must shut them upon getting up.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
SOCIAL REGISTER (TORY - HAUTE BOURGEOISIE) CITIES, SOUTH TO NORTH, THE ONES WHOSE TRADITIONS I KNOW WELL ENOUGH (ALL EPISCOPALIAN):
1. Philadelphia:
Bryn Mawr.
Northeast Harbor.
Concord.
New Haven.
2. New York:
Greenwich.
Fishers Island.
Lakeville.
New Haven.
3. Boston:
Brookline.
Osterville.
Groton.
Cambridge.
CLOTHES FOR THESE FOLKS: Brooks Brothers, J. Press.
COLONIAL COLLEGES, SOUTH TO NORTH:
1. William & Mary.
2. Penn.
3. Princeton.
4. Rutgers.
5. Columbia.
6. Yale.
7. Brown.
8. Harvard.
9. Dartmouth.
COLONIAL CAPITALS/HISTORICALLY ANDOR CURRENTLY LARGEST CITIES IN U.S., GOING FROM SOUTH TO NORTH:
1. San Antonio de Bejar, Tejas (Spain).
2. la Nouvelle Orleans, la Louisiane (France).
3. Charlestown, Province of Carolina (England).
4. Philadelphia, Colony of Pennsylvania (England).
5. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Nieuw-Nederland (Netherlands).
(I've recently discovered it's the South that matters most in concepts of Toriness -- the further South you go, the Torier it gets. East too, though; for a second consideration.)
I also ate today bologna, bread with butter, gumbo canned soup, and applesauce.
I am v. confused right now. Military service is Tory, I guess. Or maybe it all depends on the battle. I thought that the Federalists were Tories; perhaps they weren't. Perhaps the Democratic-Republicans were the Tory party? So confused. Hamilton? Crowninshield? Landed? No?
I want to see how Texas voted (before Texas, Louisiana; before Louisiana, South Carolina). This would be the ultimate Tory list of votes.
1. Philadelphia:
Bryn Mawr.
Northeast Harbor.
Concord.
New Haven.
2. New York:
Greenwich.
Fishers Island.
Lakeville.
New Haven.
3. Boston:
Brookline.
Osterville.
Groton.
Cambridge.
CLOTHES FOR THESE FOLKS: Brooks Brothers, J. Press.
COLONIAL COLLEGES, SOUTH TO NORTH:
1. William & Mary.
2. Penn.
3. Princeton.
4. Rutgers.
5. Columbia.
6. Yale.
7. Brown.
8. Harvard.
9. Dartmouth.
COLONIAL CAPITALS/HISTORICALLY ANDOR CURRENTLY LARGEST CITIES IN U.S., GOING FROM SOUTH TO NORTH:
1. San Antonio de Bejar, Tejas (Spain).
2. la Nouvelle Orleans, la Louisiane (France).
3. Charlestown, Province of Carolina (England).
4. Philadelphia, Colony of Pennsylvania (England).
5. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Nieuw-Nederland (Netherlands).
(I've recently discovered it's the South that matters most in concepts of Toriness -- the further South you go, the Torier it gets. East too, though; for a second consideration.)
I also ate today bologna, bread with butter, gumbo canned soup, and applesauce.
I am v. confused right now. Military service is Tory, I guess. Or maybe it all depends on the battle. I thought that the Federalists were Tories; perhaps they weren't. Perhaps the Democratic-Republicans were the Tory party? So confused. Hamilton? Crowninshield? Landed? No?
I want to see how Texas voted (before Texas, Louisiana; before Louisiana, South Carolina). This would be the ultimate Tory list of votes.
How Delaware Voted:
1796 - Federalist, Adams (over Jefferson)
1800 - Federalist, Adams (over Jefferson)
1804 - Federalist, Pinckney (over Jefferson)
1808 - Federalist, Pinckney (over Madison)
1812 - Federalist, De Witt Clinton (over Madison)
1816 - Federalist, King (over Monroe)
1824 - Quincy Adams (over Jackson)
1828 - National Republican, Quincy Adams (over Jackson)
1832 - National Republican, Clay (over Jackson)
1836 - Whig, William Harrison (over Van Buren)
1840 - Whig, William Harrison (over Van Buren)
1844 - Whig, Clay (over Polk)
1848 - Whig, Taylor (over Cass)
1852 - Democrat, Pierce (over Scott)
1856 - Democrat, Buchahan (over Fremont)
1860 - Southern Democrat, Breckinridge (over Lincoln)
1864 - Democrat, McClellan (over Lincoln)
1868 - Democrat, Seymour (over Grant)
1872 - Republican, Grant (over Greeley)
1876 - Democrat, Tilden (over Hayes)
1880 - Democrat, Hancock (over Garfield)
1884 - Democrat, Cleveland (over Blaine)
1888 - Democrat, Cleveland (over Benjamin Harrison)
1892 - Democrat, Cleveland (over Benjamin Harrison)
1896 - Republican, McKinley (over Bryan)
1900 - Republican, McKinley (over Bryan)
1904 - Republican, Theodore Roosevelt (over Parker)
1908 - Republican, Taft (over Bryan)
1912 - Democrat, Wilson (over Theodore Roosevelt)
1916 - Republican, Hughes (over Wilson)
1920 - Republican, Harding (over Cox)
1924 - Republican, Coolidge (over Davis)
1928 - Republican, Hoover (over Smith)
1932 - Republican, Hoover (over Franklin Roosevelt)
1936 - Democrat, Franklin Roosevelt (over Landon)
1940 - Democrat, Franklin Roosevelt (over Willkie)
1944 - Democrat, Franklin Roosevelt (over Dewey)
1948 - Democrat, Dewey (over Truman)*
1952 - Republican, Eisenhower (over Stevenson)
1956 - Republican, Eisenhower (over Stevenson)
1960 - Democrat, Kennedy (over Nixon)
1964 - Democrat, Johnson (over Goldwater)
1968 - Republican, Nixon (over Humphrey)
1972 - Republican, Nixon (over McGovern)
1976 - Democrat, Carter (over Ford)
1980 - Republican, Reagan (over Carter)
1984 - Republican, Reagan (over Mondale)
1988 - Republican, Herbert Walker Bush (over Dukakis)
1992 - Democrat, Clinton (over Herbert Walker Bush)
1996 - Democrat, Clinton (over Herbert Walker Bush)
2000 - Democrat, Gore (over Walker Bush)
2004 - Democrat, Kerry (over Walker Bush)
* Northern (Rockefeller Republican) suburbs supported Truman, though.
I think De La Warr strikes a good balance.
1796 - Federalist, Adams (over Jefferson)
1800 - Federalist, Adams (over Jefferson)
1804 - Federalist, Pinckney (over Jefferson)
1808 - Federalist, Pinckney (over Madison)
1812 - Federalist, De Witt Clinton (over Madison)
1816 - Federalist, King (over Monroe)
1824 - Quincy Adams (over Jackson)
1828 - National Republican, Quincy Adams (over Jackson)
1832 - National Republican, Clay (over Jackson)
1836 - Whig, William Harrison (over Van Buren)
1840 - Whig, William Harrison (over Van Buren)
1844 - Whig, Clay (over Polk)
1848 - Whig, Taylor (over Cass)
1852 - Democrat, Pierce (over Scott)
1856 - Democrat, Buchahan (over Fremont)
1860 - Southern Democrat, Breckinridge (over Lincoln)
1864 - Democrat, McClellan (over Lincoln)
1868 - Democrat, Seymour (over Grant)
1872 - Republican, Grant (over Greeley)
1876 - Democrat, Tilden (over Hayes)
1880 - Democrat, Hancock (over Garfield)
1884 - Democrat, Cleveland (over Blaine)
1888 - Democrat, Cleveland (over Benjamin Harrison)
1892 - Democrat, Cleveland (over Benjamin Harrison)
1896 - Republican, McKinley (over Bryan)
1900 - Republican, McKinley (over Bryan)
1904 - Republican, Theodore Roosevelt (over Parker)
1908 - Republican, Taft (over Bryan)
1912 - Democrat, Wilson (over Theodore Roosevelt)
1916 - Republican, Hughes (over Wilson)
1920 - Republican, Harding (over Cox)
1924 - Republican, Coolidge (over Davis)
1928 - Republican, Hoover (over Smith)
1932 - Republican, Hoover (over Franklin Roosevelt)
1936 - Democrat, Franklin Roosevelt (over Landon)
1940 - Democrat, Franklin Roosevelt (over Willkie)
1944 - Democrat, Franklin Roosevelt (over Dewey)
1948 - Democrat, Dewey (over Truman)*
1952 - Republican, Eisenhower (over Stevenson)
1956 - Republican, Eisenhower (over Stevenson)
1960 - Democrat, Kennedy (over Nixon)
1964 - Democrat, Johnson (over Goldwater)
1968 - Republican, Nixon (over Humphrey)
1972 - Republican, Nixon (over McGovern)
1976 - Democrat, Carter (over Ford)
1980 - Republican, Reagan (over Carter)
1984 - Republican, Reagan (over Mondale)
1988 - Republican, Herbert Walker Bush (over Dukakis)
1992 - Democrat, Clinton (over Herbert Walker Bush)
1996 - Democrat, Clinton (over Herbert Walker Bush)
2000 - Democrat, Gore (over Walker Bush)
2004 - Democrat, Kerry (over Walker Bush)
* Northern (Rockefeller Republican) suburbs supported Truman, though.
I think De La Warr strikes a good balance.
Day 2 of sugar-free diet. Today I've eaten cheese and "pita chips." Pita chips were kind of gross, though. Not so bad. I feel good, though I'm noticing some coldness in my extremities (particularly after eating the cheese). It possibly comes from diabeetus or some variation thereof. At any rate, my blood isn't getting out to the extremities. Of course, I don't ever exercise. But for the moment I'm sticking to this no-sugar thing, it feels pretty good. Last night I had the same thing, cheese, pita chips, but also a box of raisins. Right now I might go get some dried fruit for the sake of relieving boredom.
The American Prospect
Representative states: New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont), New York, New Jersey.
Liberal Protestant.
Green Party: green politics, environmentalism. Left wing, more communitarian, pacifist, fair trade, progressive, favor legal abortion/same-sex marraige/universal health-care/drug legalization/gun control, support large government spending, oppose high national debt/capital punishment, more favorable of increased taxation/immigration, strongly oppose Iraq war.
Location: Hearth: Massachusetts. Region: Greater New England.
Language and Literacy: Dialect: Northern. Literacy (m/f): 80%/50%.
Architecture: Materials: Wood frame. Style: saltbox, stretched box.
Family: identity: strong nuclear; cohesion: high; completed size: seven; servants: 0-1.
marriage: ceremony: civil contract, mean age: 26/23, adults, never wed: 2 percent, 6 percent, male dominance: moderate, prenup preg: low, bastardy low, penalty bias even.
Origion of names biblical, bible names 90 percent, descent of names 2 generation nuclear, parent names 60-70 percent, child nurture will-breaking, sending out yes.
Age ideals elder-saint, age ideology veneration, age heaping old-age bias, death ways activist-fatalist, burial customs high austerity.
Congregational, lecture-centered, witchcraft, town schools, strong education, beans and brown bread, baking food, age-dominant eating patterns, moderate class display, sad colors, moderate to low sexual display, town and team games, Puritan work ethic, mixed commercial economic bias, improving the time ethic, fall peak, truncated rank system, moderate deference, town ideals, hamlet realities, roadside house location, low internal migration, grace-centered honor. Town meeting polities, very low violefnce, ordered liberty.
Whig/Progressive. Wet. Blue. Whiggamore = sour milk man. Country Party. Supported great aristocratic families and non-Anglicans, then emerging industrial interests and wealthy merchants.
Woodrow Wilson. Idealist.
The American Conservative
Representative state: Florida.
Evangelical Protestant.
Libertarian Party: libertarian. Individualist, non-interventionist, free trade, favors legal abortion/same-sex marriage/drug legalization/immigration, opposes universal healthcare/high national debt/large government spending/increased taxation/Iraq war/capital punishment/gun control.
Location: hearth: virginia, region: tidewater South.
Language: Southern coastal, 50 percent to 25 percent literacy.
Architecture: wood and brick, hall and parlor.
Family identity: extended, cohesion low, completed size, three, servants 4-5.
Marriage sacred ceremony, 24/18, adults never wed 25/2, high male dominance, prenup preg high, bastardy high, penalty bias against females.
Origion of names Norman/Teuton, bible names 50%, descent of names 3 generation extended, parent names 20-30%, child nurture will-bending, sending out: mixed.
Old age: elder-patriarch, patriarchy, seniority bias, Stoic-fatalist, high ceremony burial customs.
Anglican, liturgy-centered, fortune (magic), parish schools, weak common education, strong higher education, fricasees (dish), roasting and frying cooking bias, rank-dominant eating patterns, high class display, bright colors, moderate to high sexual display, blood sports, leisure ethic, staple farming, killing the time, winter peak, hierarchical rank system, high deference, manorial village ideal, plantation reality, setback house location, moderate internal migration, rank-centered honor, parish and court polity, moderate violence, hegemonic liberty.
Tory/Paleoconservative. Dry. Red. Toraidhe = outlaw. Court Party.
Supported Anglican church and gentry, then landed interests and British Crown.
Thomas Jefferson. Libertarian.
The New Republic
Representative states: Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey.
Evangelical Protestant.
Democratic Party: American liberalism/progressivism, Social liberalism. Center-left, more communitarian, more pacifist, free trade, progressive, favor legal abortion/universal healthcare/increased government spending/increased taxation/immigration/drug legalization, mixed/states' rights on same-sex marriage/capital punishment, oppose high national debt/Iraq war.
Delaware Valley, NJ, Pa, Del, N Md, Midland dialect, 65/33 percent literacy, stone and brick, Quaker plain, moderate nuclear, moderate cohesion, 5 completed size, 2 servants. Meeting and agreement ceremony, 27/24 mean age, 12/16 percent adults never wed, moderate male dominance, very low prenup pregnancy, low bastardy rates, even penalty bias, mixed Biblical names, 70% Bible names, 3 generation Biblical descent of names, 20-30% parents names, will-bracing, no sending out. Elder-teacher, eldering, optimist-fatalist, extreme austerity in burial customs.
Quaker, spirit-centered, spiritualism, meeting schools, strong common education, weak higher education, cream cheese and dry beef, boiling food, communal eating patterns, moderate class display, neutral colors, very low sexual display, useful recreations, pietist work ethic, mixed industrial, redeeming the time, bimodal peaks. Egalitarian, low deference, Farm communities (ideal), farm clusters (reality), corner-clustered houses, high internal migration, holiness-centered honor, commission polity, low violence, reciprocal liberty.
Whig/Centrist. Wet. Blue. Whiggamore = sour milk man. Country Party.
Supported great aristocratic families and non-Anglicans, then emerging industrial interests and wealthy merchants.
Alexander Hamilton. Realist.
The Weekly Standard
Representative state: West Virginia.
Fundamentalist Protestant.
Republican Party: conservatism, fiscal conservatism, economic liberalism, neoconservatism, social conservatism, liberal conservatism. Center-right. More individualist. More militarist. Free trade. Conservative. Oppose legal abortion/same-sex marriage/universal healthcare/drug legalization/gun control/increased taxation/immigration, supports high national debt/large government spending/Iraq war.
Backcountry, southern highlands, earth and log, cabin style, clan and derbfine, moderate cohesion, abduction rituals, 20/19, very high male dominance, very high prenup pregnancy, saints names, 65% Bible names, 3 generation name descent, 20-30% parent names, will-building, sending out mixed, elder-thane, tanistry, nescient-fatalist death ways, folk ritual burial customs.
Religion Presbyterian/etc, field meeting and fellowship, sorcery.
Private schools, weak education, 1-2 years enrolled, clabber and potato dishes, boiling and frying cooking bias, gender-dominant eating patterns. Moderate class display, folk colors, very high sexual display. Field contests, warrior ethic, farming and herding, passing the time, Spring peak. Segmented ranks, mixed deference, .7 to .9 wealth, mixed inheritance.
Hermitage ideal, isolated reality, creek and spring house location, very high internal migration, 25-40% persistence, primal honor.
Court polity, 15-25% voting, high violence, 5.2 crime index, .25 order index, natural liberty.
Tory/Neoconservative. Dry. Red. Toraidhe = outlaw. Court Party.
Supported Anglican Church and gentry, then landed interests and British Crown.
Andrew Jackson. Populist.
Representative states: New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont), New York, New Jersey.
Liberal Protestant.
Green Party: green politics, environmentalism. Left wing, more communitarian, pacifist, fair trade, progressive, favor legal abortion/same-sex marraige/universal health-care/drug legalization/gun control, support large government spending, oppose high national debt/capital punishment, more favorable of increased taxation/immigration, strongly oppose Iraq war.
Location: Hearth: Massachusetts. Region: Greater New England.
Language and Literacy: Dialect: Northern. Literacy (m/f): 80%/50%.
Architecture: Materials: Wood frame. Style: saltbox, stretched box.
Family: identity: strong nuclear; cohesion: high; completed size: seven; servants: 0-1.
marriage: ceremony: civil contract, mean age: 26/23, adults, never wed: 2 percent, 6 percent, male dominance: moderate, prenup preg: low, bastardy low, penalty bias even.
Origion of names biblical, bible names 90 percent, descent of names 2 generation nuclear, parent names 60-70 percent, child nurture will-breaking, sending out yes.
Age ideals elder-saint, age ideology veneration, age heaping old-age bias, death ways activist-fatalist, burial customs high austerity.
Congregational, lecture-centered, witchcraft, town schools, strong education, beans and brown bread, baking food, age-dominant eating patterns, moderate class display, sad colors, moderate to low sexual display, town and team games, Puritan work ethic, mixed commercial economic bias, improving the time ethic, fall peak, truncated rank system, moderate deference, town ideals, hamlet realities, roadside house location, low internal migration, grace-centered honor. Town meeting polities, very low violefnce, ordered liberty.
Whig/Progressive. Wet. Blue. Whiggamore = sour milk man. Country Party. Supported great aristocratic families and non-Anglicans, then emerging industrial interests and wealthy merchants.
Woodrow Wilson. Idealist.
The American Conservative
Representative state: Florida.
Evangelical Protestant.
Libertarian Party: libertarian. Individualist, non-interventionist, free trade, favors legal abortion/same-sex marriage/drug legalization/immigration, opposes universal healthcare/high national debt/large government spending/increased taxation/Iraq war/capital punishment/gun control.
Location: hearth: virginia, region: tidewater South.
Language: Southern coastal, 50 percent to 25 percent literacy.
Architecture: wood and brick, hall and parlor.
Family identity: extended, cohesion low, completed size, three, servants 4-5.
Marriage sacred ceremony, 24/18, adults never wed 25/2, high male dominance, prenup preg high, bastardy high, penalty bias against females.
Origion of names Norman/Teuton, bible names 50%, descent of names 3 generation extended, parent names 20-30%, child nurture will-bending, sending out: mixed.
Old age: elder-patriarch, patriarchy, seniority bias, Stoic-fatalist, high ceremony burial customs.
Anglican, liturgy-centered, fortune (magic), parish schools, weak common education, strong higher education, fricasees (dish), roasting and frying cooking bias, rank-dominant eating patterns, high class display, bright colors, moderate to high sexual display, blood sports, leisure ethic, staple farming, killing the time, winter peak, hierarchical rank system, high deference, manorial village ideal, plantation reality, setback house location, moderate internal migration, rank-centered honor, parish and court polity, moderate violence, hegemonic liberty.
Tory/Paleoconservative. Dry. Red. Toraidhe = outlaw. Court Party.
Supported Anglican church and gentry, then landed interests and British Crown.
Thomas Jefferson. Libertarian.
The New Republic
Representative states: Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey.
Evangelical Protestant.
Democratic Party: American liberalism/progressivism, Social liberalism. Center-left, more communitarian, more pacifist, free trade, progressive, favor legal abortion/universal healthcare/increased government spending/increased taxation/immigration/drug legalization, mixed/states' rights on same-sex marriage/capital punishment, oppose high national debt/Iraq war.
Delaware Valley, NJ, Pa, Del, N Md, Midland dialect, 65/33 percent literacy, stone and brick, Quaker plain, moderate nuclear, moderate cohesion, 5 completed size, 2 servants. Meeting and agreement ceremony, 27/24 mean age, 12/16 percent adults never wed, moderate male dominance, very low prenup pregnancy, low bastardy rates, even penalty bias, mixed Biblical names, 70% Bible names, 3 generation Biblical descent of names, 20-30% parents names, will-bracing, no sending out. Elder-teacher, eldering, optimist-fatalist, extreme austerity in burial customs.
Quaker, spirit-centered, spiritualism, meeting schools, strong common education, weak higher education, cream cheese and dry beef, boiling food, communal eating patterns, moderate class display, neutral colors, very low sexual display, useful recreations, pietist work ethic, mixed industrial, redeeming the time, bimodal peaks. Egalitarian, low deference, Farm communities (ideal), farm clusters (reality), corner-clustered houses, high internal migration, holiness-centered honor, commission polity, low violence, reciprocal liberty.
Whig/Centrist. Wet. Blue. Whiggamore = sour milk man. Country Party.
Supported great aristocratic families and non-Anglicans, then emerging industrial interests and wealthy merchants.
Alexander Hamilton. Realist.
The Weekly Standard
Representative state: West Virginia.
Fundamentalist Protestant.
Republican Party: conservatism, fiscal conservatism, economic liberalism, neoconservatism, social conservatism, liberal conservatism. Center-right. More individualist. More militarist. Free trade. Conservative. Oppose legal abortion/same-sex marriage/universal healthcare/drug legalization/gun control/increased taxation/immigration, supports high national debt/large government spending/Iraq war.
Backcountry, southern highlands, earth and log, cabin style, clan and derbfine, moderate cohesion, abduction rituals, 20/19, very high male dominance, very high prenup pregnancy, saints names, 65% Bible names, 3 generation name descent, 20-30% parent names, will-building, sending out mixed, elder-thane, tanistry, nescient-fatalist death ways, folk ritual burial customs.
Religion Presbyterian/etc, field meeting and fellowship, sorcery.
Private schools, weak education, 1-2 years enrolled, clabber and potato dishes, boiling and frying cooking bias, gender-dominant eating patterns. Moderate class display, folk colors, very high sexual display. Field contests, warrior ethic, farming and herding, passing the time, Spring peak. Segmented ranks, mixed deference, .7 to .9 wealth, mixed inheritance.
Hermitage ideal, isolated reality, creek and spring house location, very high internal migration, 25-40% persistence, primal honor.
Court polity, 15-25% voting, high violence, 5.2 crime index, .25 order index, natural liberty.
Tory/Neoconservative. Dry. Red. Toraidhe = outlaw. Court Party.
Supported Anglican Church and gentry, then landed interests and British Crown.
Andrew Jackson. Populist.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Boy, I am a really bad person. Jeez.
Anyway... I am now announcing my intention to avoid sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup, just 'cause I can! That means, if it has it on the label, I'm avoiding it. Otherwise, what can I do? I have to have laws; this will be one of them. It's not as important as abstincence, which is definitely my no. 1 (I'll spare you the details), but being sugar-free will be my no. 2.
Other even slighter rules, well, forget about them, they barely matter at all. But I do intend on watching at least a few TV shows (Maury, CSI, House, Futurama, The Daily Show & The Colbert Report) and also on doing my daily prayers according to Universalis (and also, potentially, fasting for Lent).
Anyway... I am now announcing my intention to avoid sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup, just 'cause I can! That means, if it has it on the label, I'm avoiding it. Otherwise, what can I do? I have to have laws; this will be one of them. It's not as important as abstincence, which is definitely my no. 1 (I'll spare you the details), but being sugar-free will be my no. 2.
Other even slighter rules, well, forget about them, they barely matter at all. But I do intend on watching at least a few TV shows (Maury, CSI, House, Futurama, The Daily Show & The Colbert Report) and also on doing my daily prayers according to Universalis (and also, potentially, fasting for Lent).
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Tories and Whigs.
Barack Obama is a Tory, and the equivalent (historically speaking) to Franklin Roosevelt, and Lincoln. Yes, babes, this guy is going to be one of the biggies.
King Obama for President, please.
You can even think of this as a way of going back to the decentralized tribal ways of our ancestors, which so many psychedelic prophets like Terence McKenna have claimed as due for the Aquarian Era/2012 blah blah blah.
Because Obama is from a tribe in Africa (through his father, indirectly), the heartland of humanity specifically (closer to Tanzania, Kenya, where The Lion King was set). He's a goddamned tribal chieftain for the United States (and I wish I could say, by extension all humanity, but that isn't true -- that right is reserved for the United Nations' secretary-general, and they already got in on that African chieftain business with Kofi Anaan. In fact they've already moved on, logically - to me anyway - to a Korean mandarin. It's all in Hegel. We're developing a base for the future. In case you're wondering, I'm completely insane. But disregard that and keep reading if you want to, it's O.K.). So, the U.S. is definitely behind the times here, with our African chieftain (of course, but the U.N. is powerless, meaningless, and not for serious, so they're only setting an example -- and besides, they won't be around much longer anyway, not with the EU taking their place. But let us still note that it is the U.S. that has the real power. I was just reading Walter Russell Mead, and I thank him for figuring stuff out for me, and I borrow his borrowed idea of Europe as scorpions in a jar -- pay them no mind, their days are over) . But Americans care about our history, so it's exciting to know that he's going to be a true king, and a truly global one at that -- not just a member of the Anglican gentry (Washington), or a butternut Irishman (Lincoln), or an aristocratic Dutchman (FDR), but a Hawaii-born Kenyan "chieftain" of half-Midwestern (Kansas) parentage, educated and raised partly in Malaysia and at Hawaiian aboriginal but New England Congregationalist (the sect he belongs to, BTW)-founded prep school and then further educated at: wow, Occidental College, the Presbyterian lib arts school in Eagle Rock for the Southern California (opposite of Northeast) Spanish-influenced Scotch-Irish ascendancy (but note he still has trouble with Hispanics but maybe not for long -- we see Pasadena-and-Milton-Academy Hispanic preppy Bill Richardson, gov'r of New Mexico, turning towards him, though which Mexicans give a fuck about what he has to think are none that I can imagine) and then went to Harvard, which is, unlike the more Whiggish Yale, a citadel of Toryism (Oxford is to Cambridge as Harvard is to Yale). Incidentally, that's why a man should go to Yale, I suppose, to make it in business. But then to go to Chicago, rather than New York -- what genius. Chicago is at this point more connected to the outside world than the Northeast. Think of University of Chicago and Pitchfork -- not to mention Austin, TX. The heartland's where it's at, if you're upper class. Oh, gosh, not to mention the latest development in soft power -- Western Pennsylvania's Black Moth Super Rainbow, on a Chicago wigger label (and Ohio's noisecore or whatever).\\
So, you can see that everything fits!
- George Washington of Virginia
- Abraham Lincoln of the Frontier
- Franklin Roosevelt of New York, Groton and Harvard, and the Navy
- Barack Obama of Hawai'i, L.A., and Chicago (and Harvard Law)
He's the gifted public school (magnet school) kid, at least on the West Coast. Oh, I forgot to mention -- the supposed madrassa he went to, in Malaysia? It's actually Malaysia's N0. 1 prep school, founded by & for the children of the Dutch colonial elite!
Barack Obama is a Tory, and the equivalent (historically speaking) to Franklin Roosevelt, and Lincoln. Yes, babes, this guy is going to be one of the biggies.
King Obama for President, please.
You can even think of this as a way of going back to the decentralized tribal ways of our ancestors, which so many psychedelic prophets like Terence McKenna have claimed as due for the Aquarian Era/2012 blah blah blah.
Because Obama is from a tribe in Africa (through his father, indirectly), the heartland of humanity specifically (closer to Tanzania, Kenya, where The Lion King was set). He's a goddamned tribal chieftain for the United States (and I wish I could say, by extension all humanity, but that isn't true -- that right is reserved for the United Nations' secretary-general, and they already got in on that African chieftain business with Kofi Anaan. In fact they've already moved on, logically - to me anyway - to a Korean mandarin. It's all in Hegel. We're developing a base for the future. In case you're wondering, I'm completely insane. But disregard that and keep reading if you want to, it's O.K.). So, the U.S. is definitely behind the times here, with our African chieftain (of course, but the U.N. is powerless, meaningless, and not for serious, so they're only setting an example -- and besides, they won't be around much longer anyway, not with the EU taking their place. But let us still note that it is the U.S. that has the real power. I was just reading Walter Russell Mead, and I thank him for figuring stuff out for me, and I borrow his borrowed idea of Europe as scorpions in a jar -- pay them no mind, their days are over) . But Americans care about our history, so it's exciting to know that he's going to be a true king, and a truly global one at that -- not just a member of the Anglican gentry (Washington), or a butternut Irishman (Lincoln), or an aristocratic Dutchman (FDR), but a Hawaii-born Kenyan "chieftain" of half-Midwestern (Kansas) parentage, educated and raised partly in Malaysia and at Hawaiian aboriginal but New England Congregationalist (the sect he belongs to, BTW)-founded prep school and then further educated at: wow, Occidental College, the Presbyterian lib arts school in Eagle Rock for the Southern California (opposite of Northeast) Spanish-influenced Scotch-Irish ascendancy (but note he still has trouble with Hispanics but maybe not for long -- we see Pasadena-and-Milton-Academy Hispanic preppy Bill Richardson, gov'r of New Mexico, turning towards him, though which Mexicans give a fuck about what he has to think are none that I can imagine) and then went to Harvard, which is, unlike the more Whiggish Yale, a citadel of Toryism (Oxford is to Cambridge as Harvard is to Yale). Incidentally, that's why a man should go to Yale, I suppose, to make it in business. But then to go to Chicago, rather than New York -- what genius. Chicago is at this point more connected to the outside world than the Northeast. Think of University of Chicago and Pitchfork -- not to mention Austin, TX. The heartland's where it's at, if you're upper class. Oh, gosh, not to mention the latest development in soft power -- Western Pennsylvania's Black Moth Super Rainbow, on a Chicago wigger label (and Ohio's noisecore or whatever).\\
So, you can see that everything fits!
- George Washington of Virginia
- Abraham Lincoln of the Frontier
- Franklin Roosevelt of New York, Groton and Harvard, and the Navy
- Barack Obama of Hawai'i, L.A., and Chicago (and Harvard Law)
He's the gifted public school (magnet school) kid, at least on the West Coast. Oh, I forgot to mention -- the supposed madrassa he went to, in Malaysia? It's actually Malaysia's N0. 1 prep school, founded by & for the children of the Dutch colonial elite!
Monday, March 24, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Xtianityism
PRAYER (http://www.universalis.com/)
Office of Readings at Midnight or first thing in the morning
Lauds at 3 a.m. or first thing in the morning
Terce, Sexte, and None at 9am, noon, and 3pm
Vespers at 6 p.m. (This is when you turn on the lights.)
Compline at 9 p.m. (After this, you retire.)
FASTING
Abstain from meat on Fridays.
During Lent (Ash Wednesday to noon on Holy Saturday), abstain from flesh meat, eggs, butter, cheese, and milk, and eat only one meal per day, after 6 p.m. Do not drink alcohol during Lent. During Holy Week, the meal consists exclusively of bread, salt, herbs, and water.
PILGRIMAGE
Camino de Santiago.
Begin your pilgrimage in Roncesvalles. Get a credencial at the albergue in Roncesvalles.
Daily costs along the Camino can be as low as 20 Euros a day, although you should budget for a little more to treat yourself along the way. Spring and autumn are the best times to travel. If you're fit and healthy, you can walk from Roncesvalles to Santiago de Compostela in less than a month. Nevertheless, it's a good idea to allow extra time for rest days, unforeseen injuries, or just a whimsical decision to linger in one of the lovely towns along the way.
Office of Readings at Midnight or first thing in the morning
Lauds at 3 a.m. or first thing in the morning
Terce, Sexte, and None at 9am, noon, and 3pm
Vespers at 6 p.m. (This is when you turn on the lights.)
Compline at 9 p.m. (After this, you retire.)
FASTING
Abstain from meat on Fridays.
During Lent (Ash Wednesday to noon on Holy Saturday), abstain from flesh meat, eggs, butter, cheese, and milk, and eat only one meal per day, after 6 p.m. Do not drink alcohol during Lent. During Holy Week, the meal consists exclusively of bread, salt, herbs, and water.
PILGRIMAGE
Camino de Santiago.
Begin your pilgrimage in Roncesvalles. Get a credencial at the albergue in Roncesvalles.
Daily costs along the Camino can be as low as 20 Euros a day, although you should budget for a little more to treat yourself along the way. Spring and autumn are the best times to travel. If you're fit and healthy, you can walk from Roncesvalles to Santiago de Compostela in less than a month. Nevertheless, it's a good idea to allow extra time for rest days, unforeseen injuries, or just a whimsical decision to linger in one of the lovely towns along the way.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
I've been looking for a group in American life I can trust, and whaddaya know, it's the good old-fashioned paleoconservatives.
Same as the "Yellow Dog Democrats." I think. I'll get back to you on that if they're any different.
But back to paleocons: the group who writes Chronicles and The American Conservative, and who post on LewRockwell.com. I suppose first I'd have to start reading the National Review and The Weekly Standard, even though they're supposedly whom the paleocons define themselves against, because they may have more in common anyway. But I'm really not going to read any of that because the paleonconservative tendency is such a fresh one that to hamper it by actually reading what other self-claimed paleocons think would be dangerous. But the point still stands: to get to the paleocon lit, I first must wade through the morass of neoconservative lit. Which I'm starting to do, in fact -- I've got a whole bunch of tabs open to the Wall Street Journal as we speak. So all I have to do is open up some tabs for the National Review, Commentary, and The Weekly Standard, and I'm good to go, I guess. Even before that, though: The Economist and the Financial Times. There, that covers it.
Also, these presidents: Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Polk, Buchanan, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Hebert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, John Franklin Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush.
Same as the "Yellow Dog Democrats." I think. I'll get back to you on that if they're any different.
But back to paleocons: the group who writes Chronicles and The American Conservative, and who post on LewRockwell.com. I suppose first I'd have to start reading the National Review and The Weekly Standard, even though they're supposedly whom the paleocons define themselves against, because they may have more in common anyway. But I'm really not going to read any of that because the paleonconservative tendency is such a fresh one that to hamper it by actually reading what other self-claimed paleocons think would be dangerous. But the point still stands: to get to the paleocon lit, I first must wade through the morass of neoconservative lit. Which I'm starting to do, in fact -- I've got a whole bunch of tabs open to the Wall Street Journal as we speak. So all I have to do is open up some tabs for the National Review, Commentary, and The Weekly Standard, and I'm good to go, I guess. Even before that, though: The Economist and the Financial Times. There, that covers it.
Also, these presidents: Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Polk, Buchanan, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Hebert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, John Franklin Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Sawm. (To abstain from eating, drinking, sex, and smoking from dawn (before the Fajr prayers) to sunset (a small meal of dates and water may be used to break the fast before Maghrib - say, 10 minutes before) -- during the month of Ramadan, which is from September 1 to 30 next year. There are penalties for intentionally breaking the fast. One can also fast on Mondays and Thursdays.)
Islamic dietary laws. (No alcohol, pork, or blood. Let's leave it at that.)
Healthy diet. (Basically just follow the Nutrition Guidelines on the back of the packaging of the processed food you eat.)
Also, the Copts are vegan for all of Holy Week.
Islamic dietary laws. (No alcohol, pork, or blood. Let's leave it at that.)
Healthy diet. (Basically just follow the Nutrition Guidelines on the back of the packaging of the processed food you eat.)
Also, the Copts are vegan for all of Holy Week.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Guide to U.S. Elections
(Whiggishness to Toriness, ascending in numeral rank)
(Most Whiggish state, and who they went for)
1796:
1. Adams (Federalist)
2. Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
Tennessee: Jefferson
1800:
1. Adams (Federalist)
2. Jefferson (Dem.-Rep.)
Tennessee: Jefferson
1804:
1. Pinckney (Federalist)
2. Jefferson (Dem.-Rep.)
Ohio: Jefferson
1808:
1. Pinckney (Federalist)
2. Madison (Dem.-Rep.)
Ohio: Madison
1812:
1. Clinton (fusion)
2. Madison (Dem.-Rep.)
Louisiana: Madison
1816:
1. King (Federalist)
2. Monroe (Dem.-Rep.)
Indiana: Madison
1820:
Monroe (Dem.-Rep.)
1824:
1. Crawford
2. Jackson
3. J.Q. Adams
4. Clay
Missouri: Clay
1828:
1. J.Q. Adams (National Rep.)
2. Jackson (Democrat)
Missouri: Jackson
1832:
1. Jackson (Democrat)
2. Clay (National Rep.)
3. Floyd (ind. Dem.)
4. Wirt (Anti-Masonic)
Missouri: Jackson
1836:
1. W.H. Harrison (Whig)
2. Van Buren (Democrat)
3. White (Whig)
4. Webster (Whig)
5. Mangum (independent)
Arkansas: Van Buren
1840:
1. W. Harrison (Whig)
2. Van Buren (Democrat)
Arkansas: Van Buren
1844:
1. Clay (Whig)
2. Polk (Democrat)
Arkansas: Polk
1848:
1. Taylor (Whig)
2. Cass (Democrat)
Wisconsin: Cass
1852:
1. Pierce (Democrat)
2. Scott (Whig)
California: Pierce
1856:
1. Buchanan (Democrat)
2. Fremont (Republican)
3. Fillmore (Whig)
California: Buchanan
1860:
1. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat)
2. Lincoln (Republican)
3. Douglas (Democrat)
4. Bell (Constitutional Union)
Oregon: Lincoln
1864 [Confederate States: Ga, SC, Va, NC, Tn, La, Ms, Al, Ar, Tx, Fl]:
1. McClellan (Democrat)
2. Lincoln (Republican)
Nevada: Lincoln
1868 [States not readmitted to the Union: Va, Ms, Tx]:
1. Seymour (Democrat)
2. Grant (Republican)
Nebraska: Grant
1872:
1. Grant (Republican)
2. Greeley (Democrat, Lib. Repub.)
Nebraska: Grant
1876:
1. Tilden (Democrat)
2. Hayes (Republican)
Colorado: Hayes
1880:
1. Hancock (Democrat)
2. Garfield (Republican)
Colorado: Garfield
1884:
1. Cleveland (Democrat)
2. Blaine (Republican)
Colorado: Blaine
1888:
1. Cleveland (Democrat)
2. B. Harrison (Republican)
Colorado: B. Harrison
1892:
1. Cleveland (Democrat)
2. B. Harrison (Republican)
3. Weaver (Populist)
Wyoming: B. Harrison
1896:
1. McKinley (Republican)
2. Bryan (Democrat)
Utah: Bryan
1900:
1. McKinley (Republican)
2. Bryan (Democrat)
Utah: Bryan
1904:
1. Th. Roosevelt (Republican)
2. Parker (Democrat)
Utah: Th. Roosevelt
1908:
1. Taft (Republican)
2. Bryan (Democrat)
Oklahoma: Bryan
1912:
1. Wilson (Democrat)
2. Th. Roosevelt (Progressive)
3. Taft (Republican)
Arizona: Wilson
1916:
1. Hughes (Republican)
2. Wilson (Democrat)
Arizona: Wilson
1920:
1. Harding (Republican)
2. Cox (Democrat)
Arizona: Harding
1924:
1. Coolidge (Republican)
2. Davis (Democrat)
3. La Follette (Progressive)
Arizona: Coolidge
1928:
1. Hoover (Republican)
2. Smith (Democrat)
Arizona: Hoover
1932:
1. Hoover (Republican)
2. F.D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
Arizona: F.D. Roosevelt
1936:
1. F.D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
2. Landon (Republican)
Arizona: F.D. Roosevelt
1940:
1. F.D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
2. Willkie (Republican)
Arizona: F.D. Roosevelt
1944:
1. F.D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
2. Dewey (Republican)
Arizona: F.D. Roosevelt
1948:
1. Dewey (Republican)
2. Truman (Democrat)
3. Thurmond (States' Rights)
Arizona: Truman
1952:
1. Eisenhower (Republican)
2. Stevenson (Democrat)
Arizona: Eisenhower
1956:
1. Eisenhower (Republican)
2. Stevenson (Democrat)
Arizona: Eisenhower
1960 [Unpledged: Mississippi]
1. Kennedy (Democrat)
2. Nixon (Republican)
Alaska: Nixon
1964:
1. Johnson (Democrat)
2. Goldwater (Republican)
Alaska: Johnson
1968:
1. Humphrey (Democrat)
2. Nixon (Republican)
3. Wallace (American Independent)
Alaska: Nixon
1972:
1. Nixon (Republican)
2. McGovern (Democrat)
Alaska: Nixon
1980:
1. Reagan (Republican)
2. Carter (Democrat)
Alaska: Reagan
1984:
1. Reagan (Republican)
2. Mondale (Democrat)
Alaska: Reagan
1988:
1. G.H. Bush (Republican)
2. Dukakis (Democrat)
Alaska: G.H. Bush
1992:
1. Clinton (Democrat)
2. G.H. Bush (Republican)
Alaska: G.H. Bush
1996:
1. Clinton (Democrat)
2. Dole (Republican)
Alaska: Dole
2000:
1. Gore (Democrat)
2. G.W. Bush (Republican)
Alaska: George W. Bush
2004:
1. Kerry (Democrat)
2. G.W. Bush (Republican)
Alaska: G.W. Bush
South Delaware (the Tory heartland of this Tory state):
1836 - Whig
1840 - Harrison (Whig, Alabama)
1844 - Polk (Democratic, Tennessee)
1848 - Cass (Democratic, Mich.)
1852 - Scott (Whig, New Jersey)
1856 - Buchanan (Dem., Penns.)
1860 - Breckinridge (Southern Dem.)
1864 - McClellan (Democratic, New Jersey)
1868 - Seymour (Democratic, New York)
1872 - Grant (Republican, Illinois)
1876 - Tilden (Democratic, NY)
1880 - Hancock (Democratic, Penn.)
1884 - Cleveland (Democratic, N. Y.)
1888 - B. Harrison (Republican, Indiana)
1892 - Cleveland (Democratic, N. Y.)
1896 - McKinley (Republican, Ohio)
1900 - McKinley (Republican, Ohio)
1904 - T. Roosevelt (Republican, N. Y.)
1908 - Taft (Republican, Ohio)
1912 - Wilson (Democratic, New Jersey)
1916 - Hughes (Republican, N. Y.)
1920 - Harding (Republican, Ohio)
1924 - Coolidge (Republican, Mass.)
1928 - Hoover (Republican, Calif.)
1932 - F. Roosevelt (Democrat, N. Y.)
1936 - F. Roosevelt (Democrat, N. Y.)
1940 - F. Roosevelt (Democrat, N. Y.)
1944 - Dewey (Republican, N. Y.)
1948 - Dewey (Republican, N. Y.)
1952 - Eisenhower (Republ., N. Y.)
1956 - Eisenhower (Republ., N. Y.)
1960 - Nixon (Republican, Cal.)
1964 - Johnson (Dem., Texas)
1968 - Nixon (Republican, Calif.)
1972 - Nixon (Republican, Cal.)
1976 - Carter (Democratic, Georgia)
1980 - Reagan (Republican, Calif.)
1984 - Reagan (Republican, Calif.)
1988 - G. Bush (Republican, Texas)
1992 - G. Bush (Republican, Texas)
1996 - Clinton (Democratic, Ark.)
2000 - G. W. Bush (Republican, Texas)
2004 - G. W. Bush (Republican, Texas)
And, just for kicks, the Coachella Valley:
1876 - Hayes (Republican, Ohio)
1880 - Garfield (Republican, Ohio)
1884 - Blaine (Republican, Maine)
1888 - B. Harrison (Republican, Indiana)
1892 - B. Harrison (Republican, Indiana)
1896 - McKinley (Republican, Ohio)
1900 - McKinley (Republican, Ohio)
1904 - T. Roosevelt (Republican, N. Y.)
1908 - Taft (Republican, Ohio)
1912 - T. Roosevelt (Progressive, New York)
1916 - Hughes (Republican, N. Y.)
1920 - Harding (Republican, Ohio)
1924 - Coolidge (Republican, Mass.)
1928 - Hoover (Republican, Calif.)
1932 - Hoover (Republican, Calif.)
1936 - F. Roosevelt (Democrat, Calif.)
1940 - Willkie (Republican, N. Y.)
1944 - Dewey (Republican, N. Y.)
1948 - Dewey (Republican, N. Y.)
1952 - Eisenhower (Republ., N. Y.)
1956 - Eisenhower (Republ., N. Y.)
1960 - Nixon (Republican, Cal.)
1964 - Johnson (Dem., Texas)
1968 - Nixon (Republican, Calif.)
1972 - Nixon (Republican, Cal.)
1976 - Ford (R
1980 - Reagan
1984 - Reagan
1988 - G. Bush
1992 - Clinton
1996 - Dole
2000 - G. W. Bush
2004 - G. W. Bush
And Larimer County:
1880 - Garfield (Republican, Ohio)
1884 - Blaine (Republican, Maine)
1888 - B. Harrison (Republican, Indiana)
1892 - Weaver (Populist, Iowa)
1896 - Bryan (Dem., Nebraska)
1900 - Bryan (Democrat, Nebraska)
1904 - T. Roosevelt (Republican, N. Y.)
1908 - Taft (Republican, Ohio)
1912 - Wilson (Democratic, New Jersey)
1916 - Wilson (Democratic, New Jersey)
1920 - Harding (Republican, Ohio)
1924 - Coolidge (Republican, Mass.)
1928 - Hoover (Republican, Calif.)
1932 - Hoover (Republican, Calif.)
1936 - F. Roosevelt (Democrat, Calif.)
1940 - Willkie (Republican, N. Y.)
1944 - Dewey (Republican, N. Y.)
1948 - Dewey (Republican, N. Y.)
1952 - Eisenhower
1956 - Eisenhower
1960 - Nixon
1964 - Johnson
1968 - Nixon
1972 - Nixon
1976 - Ford
1980 - Reagan
1984 - Reagan
1988 - G. Bush
1992 - Clinton
1996 - Dole
2000 - G. W. Bush
2004 - G. W. Bush
OTOH, Northern (Urban) Delaware Goes For: Van Buren, Harrison, Clay, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, Breckinridge, Lincoln, Seymour, Grant, Tilden, Tilden, Garfield, Cleveland, Cleveland, Cleveland, McKinley, McKinley, T. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Hughes, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Hoover, F. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Nixon, Reagan, Reagan, G. Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Gore, Kerry.
From a Slate piece in 2004: 'In the 1970s, northern Delaware—in particular, the Wilmington suburbs—was full of Rockefeller Republicans and the agrarian south was solidly Yellow Dog Democratic. As the Republican Party corralled the southern United States, Delaware flip-flopped too. Conservative southern Delaware turned solid Republican.'
BTW, New Jersey is going for John McCain ATM.
I personally believe that Barack Obama will win the race, yeah, both.
I love the candidates in this order: 1. Obama, 2. Clinton, 3. McCain.
I support the candidates in this order (quixotically): 1. McCain, 2. Clinton, 3. Obama. Mostly "strategically." OK, totally "strategically." LOL.
P.S. I totally forgot about Rave until tonight. I was lurking on Encyclopedia Dramatica and found out my subcultural affiliation is (again, strategically) Twink.
I'll let that sink in.
Really, though, it's just fucking Hippie. (From the ED article: "hippies always want you to waste your vote on some long shot candidate, like Dennis Kucinich"... thus, my support for McCain!)
Really, though, I'm a Raver, I guess. That's probably why I'm always shitting rainbows IRL.
What this really REALLY means, however, is: I am a Wigger. Wow, forget coming out of the closet as a faggot; this is the real deal. It also means I'm a Chav, which is (I guess) a more classy way of putting it (to me). From the article:
"[Wiggers] are what you get when you travel back in time about five years to retrieve what was barely cool about hip hop even then, clad it with a Tommy Hilfiger shirt from the JC Penney clearance rack, give it the keys to Mom's car, and send it to the local strip mall to mean-mug everybody while blasting commercials from the local hip-hop station on 6 x 9 factory speakers."
check, check, and check.
'The evolution of a wigger always has roots in some other attention-whoring, insecure, facade such as goth, punk, or just plain ol' basement-dweller. Typically, the helpless dickwad was forcibly ejected from one of these fag cultures and spent some time floundering in limbo (emo) before developing a powerful sexual attraction to Eminem. After a dark night of the soul spent throwing himself around his bedroom with a blacklight on while pining for Marshall Mathers' scrotum, he emerges reborn, wearing Dad's oversized Lee jeans, a gold-plated chain (worn outside the shirt, of course) and a desperate need to ingest loads upon loads of black cock... I mean, culture. In other words, wiggers are a natural evolution of a basement-dweller which has acquired a friend at best, or an understanding of gay fucktardery at worst. Much like the evolution of a Pikachu into a new member of Radiohead.'
Oh God why is this so true. 'The wiggerling proceeds to limp around the neighborhood as if this laughable farce has been his persona all along.
Wiggerdom, per se, is a tabula rasa. After the initial process of hatchery, the wiggerling can wander into several different potential subcategories, depending on what was playing on TRL during the imprinting stage.'
Anyway. '
(Most Whiggish state, and who they went for)
1796:
1. Adams (Federalist)
2. Jefferson (Democratic-Republican)
Tennessee: Jefferson
1800:
1. Adams (Federalist)
2. Jefferson (Dem.-Rep.)
Tennessee: Jefferson
1804:
1. Pinckney (Federalist)
2. Jefferson (Dem.-Rep.)
Ohio: Jefferson
1808:
1. Pinckney (Federalist)
2. Madison (Dem.-Rep.)
Ohio: Madison
1812:
1. Clinton (fusion)
2. Madison (Dem.-Rep.)
Louisiana: Madison
1816:
1. King (Federalist)
2. Monroe (Dem.-Rep.)
Indiana: Madison
1820:
Monroe (Dem.-Rep.)
1824:
1. Crawford
2. Jackson
3. J.Q. Adams
4. Clay
Missouri: Clay
1828:
1. J.Q. Adams (National Rep.)
2. Jackson (Democrat)
Missouri: Jackson
1832:
1. Jackson (Democrat)
2. Clay (National Rep.)
3. Floyd (ind. Dem.)
4. Wirt (Anti-Masonic)
Missouri: Jackson
1836:
1. W.H. Harrison (Whig)
2. Van Buren (Democrat)
3. White (Whig)
4. Webster (Whig)
5. Mangum (independent)
Arkansas: Van Buren
1840:
1. W. Harrison (Whig)
2. Van Buren (Democrat)
Arkansas: Van Buren
1844:
1. Clay (Whig)
2. Polk (Democrat)
Arkansas: Polk
1848:
1. Taylor (Whig)
2. Cass (Democrat)
Wisconsin: Cass
1852:
1. Pierce (Democrat)
2. Scott (Whig)
California: Pierce
1856:
1. Buchanan (Democrat)
2. Fremont (Republican)
3. Fillmore (Whig)
California: Buchanan
1860:
1. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat)
2. Lincoln (Republican)
3. Douglas (Democrat)
4. Bell (Constitutional Union)
Oregon: Lincoln
1864 [Confederate States: Ga, SC, Va, NC, Tn, La, Ms, Al, Ar, Tx, Fl]:
1. McClellan (Democrat)
2. Lincoln (Republican)
Nevada: Lincoln
1868 [States not readmitted to the Union: Va, Ms, Tx]:
1. Seymour (Democrat)
2. Grant (Republican)
Nebraska: Grant
1872:
1. Grant (Republican)
2. Greeley (Democrat, Lib. Repub.)
Nebraska: Grant
1876:
1. Tilden (Democrat)
2. Hayes (Republican)
Colorado: Hayes
1880:
1. Hancock (Democrat)
2. Garfield (Republican)
Colorado: Garfield
1884:
1. Cleveland (Democrat)
2. Blaine (Republican)
Colorado: Blaine
1888:
1. Cleveland (Democrat)
2. B. Harrison (Republican)
Colorado: B. Harrison
1892:
1. Cleveland (Democrat)
2. B. Harrison (Republican)
3. Weaver (Populist)
Wyoming: B. Harrison
1896:
1. McKinley (Republican)
2. Bryan (Democrat)
Utah: Bryan
1900:
1. McKinley (Republican)
2. Bryan (Democrat)
Utah: Bryan
1904:
1. Th. Roosevelt (Republican)
2. Parker (Democrat)
Utah: Th. Roosevelt
1908:
1. Taft (Republican)
2. Bryan (Democrat)
Oklahoma: Bryan
1912:
1. Wilson (Democrat)
2. Th. Roosevelt (Progressive)
3. Taft (Republican)
Arizona: Wilson
1916:
1. Hughes (Republican)
2. Wilson (Democrat)
Arizona: Wilson
1920:
1. Harding (Republican)
2. Cox (Democrat)
Arizona: Harding
1924:
1. Coolidge (Republican)
2. Davis (Democrat)
3. La Follette (Progressive)
Arizona: Coolidge
1928:
1. Hoover (Republican)
2. Smith (Democrat)
Arizona: Hoover
1932:
1. Hoover (Republican)
2. F.D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
Arizona: F.D. Roosevelt
1936:
1. F.D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
2. Landon (Republican)
Arizona: F.D. Roosevelt
1940:
1. F.D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
2. Willkie (Republican)
Arizona: F.D. Roosevelt
1944:
1. F.D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
2. Dewey (Republican)
Arizona: F.D. Roosevelt
1948:
1. Dewey (Republican)
2. Truman (Democrat)
3. Thurmond (States' Rights)
Arizona: Truman
1952:
1. Eisenhower (Republican)
2. Stevenson (Democrat)
Arizona: Eisenhower
1956:
1. Eisenhower (Republican)
2. Stevenson (Democrat)
Arizona: Eisenhower
1960 [Unpledged: Mississippi]
1. Kennedy (Democrat)
2. Nixon (Republican)
Alaska: Nixon
1964:
1. Johnson (Democrat)
2. Goldwater (Republican)
Alaska: Johnson
1968:
1. Humphrey (Democrat)
2. Nixon (Republican)
3. Wallace (American Independent)
Alaska: Nixon
1972:
1. Nixon (Republican)
2. McGovern (Democrat)
Alaska: Nixon
1980:
1. Reagan (Republican)
2. Carter (Democrat)
Alaska: Reagan
1984:
1. Reagan (Republican)
2. Mondale (Democrat)
Alaska: Reagan
1988:
1. G.H. Bush (Republican)
2. Dukakis (Democrat)
Alaska: G.H. Bush
1992:
1. Clinton (Democrat)
2. G.H. Bush (Republican)
Alaska: G.H. Bush
1996:
1. Clinton (Democrat)
2. Dole (Republican)
Alaska: Dole
2000:
1. Gore (Democrat)
2. G.W. Bush (Republican)
Alaska: George W. Bush
2004:
1. Kerry (Democrat)
2. G.W. Bush (Republican)
Alaska: G.W. Bush
South Delaware (the Tory heartland of this Tory state):
1836 - Whig
1840 - Harrison (Whig, Alabama)
1844 - Polk (Democratic, Tennessee)
1848 - Cass (Democratic, Mich.)
1852 - Scott (Whig, New Jersey)
1856 - Buchanan (Dem., Penns.)
1860 - Breckinridge (Southern Dem.)
1864 - McClellan (Democratic, New Jersey)
1868 - Seymour (Democratic, New York)
1872 - Grant (Republican, Illinois)
1876 - Tilden (Democratic, NY)
1880 - Hancock (Democratic, Penn.)
1884 - Cleveland (Democratic, N. Y.)
1888 - B. Harrison (Republican, Indiana)
1892 - Cleveland (Democratic, N. Y.)
1896 - McKinley (Republican, Ohio)
1900 - McKinley (Republican, Ohio)
1904 - T. Roosevelt (Republican, N. Y.)
1908 - Taft (Republican, Ohio)
1912 - Wilson (Democratic, New Jersey)
1916 - Hughes (Republican, N. Y.)
1920 - Harding (Republican, Ohio)
1924 - Coolidge (Republican, Mass.)
1928 - Hoover (Republican, Calif.)
1932 - F. Roosevelt (Democrat, N. Y.)
1936 - F. Roosevelt (Democrat, N. Y.)
1940 - F. Roosevelt (Democrat, N. Y.)
1944 - Dewey (Republican, N. Y.)
1948 - Dewey (Republican, N. Y.)
1952 - Eisenhower (Republ., N. Y.)
1956 - Eisenhower (Republ., N. Y.)
1960 - Nixon (Republican, Cal.)
1964 - Johnson (Dem., Texas)
1968 - Nixon (Republican, Calif.)
1972 - Nixon (Republican, Cal.)
1976 - Carter (Democratic, Georgia)
1980 - Reagan (Republican, Calif.)
1984 - Reagan (Republican, Calif.)
1988 - G. Bush (Republican, Texas)
1992 - G. Bush (Republican, Texas)
1996 - Clinton (Democratic, Ark.)
2000 - G. W. Bush (Republican, Texas)
2004 - G. W. Bush (Republican, Texas)
And, just for kicks, the Coachella Valley:
1876 - Hayes (Republican, Ohio)
1880 - Garfield (Republican, Ohio)
1884 - Blaine (Republican, Maine)
1888 - B. Harrison (Republican, Indiana)
1892 - B. Harrison (Republican, Indiana)
1896 - McKinley (Republican, Ohio)
1900 - McKinley (Republican, Ohio)
1904 - T. Roosevelt (Republican, N. Y.)
1908 - Taft (Republican, Ohio)
1912 - T. Roosevelt (Progressive, New York)
1916 - Hughes (Republican, N. Y.)
1920 - Harding (Republican, Ohio)
1924 - Coolidge (Republican, Mass.)
1928 - Hoover (Republican, Calif.)
1932 - Hoover (Republican, Calif.)
1936 - F. Roosevelt (Democrat, Calif.)
1940 - Willkie (Republican, N. Y.)
1944 - Dewey (Republican, N. Y.)
1948 - Dewey (Republican, N. Y.)
1952 - Eisenhower (Republ., N. Y.)
1956 - Eisenhower (Republ., N. Y.)
1960 - Nixon (Republican, Cal.)
1964 - Johnson (Dem., Texas)
1968 - Nixon (Republican, Calif.)
1972 - Nixon (Republican, Cal.)
1976 - Ford (R
1980 - Reagan
1984 - Reagan
1988 - G. Bush
1992 - Clinton
1996 - Dole
2000 - G. W. Bush
2004 - G. W. Bush
And Larimer County:
1880 - Garfield (Republican, Ohio)
1884 - Blaine (Republican, Maine)
1888 - B. Harrison (Republican, Indiana)
1892 - Weaver (Populist, Iowa)
1896 - Bryan (Dem., Nebraska)
1900 - Bryan (Democrat, Nebraska)
1904 - T. Roosevelt (Republican, N. Y.)
1908 - Taft (Republican, Ohio)
1912 - Wilson (Democratic, New Jersey)
1916 - Wilson (Democratic, New Jersey)
1920 - Harding (Republican, Ohio)
1924 - Coolidge (Republican, Mass.)
1928 - Hoover (Republican, Calif.)
1932 - Hoover (Republican, Calif.)
1936 - F. Roosevelt (Democrat, Calif.)
1940 - Willkie (Republican, N. Y.)
1944 - Dewey (Republican, N. Y.)
1948 - Dewey (Republican, N. Y.)
1952 - Eisenhower
1956 - Eisenhower
1960 - Nixon
1964 - Johnson
1968 - Nixon
1972 - Nixon
1976 - Ford
1980 - Reagan
1984 - Reagan
1988 - G. Bush
1992 - Clinton
1996 - Dole
2000 - G. W. Bush
2004 - G. W. Bush
OTOH, Northern (Urban) Delaware Goes For: Van Buren, Harrison, Clay, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, Breckinridge, Lincoln, Seymour, Grant, Tilden, Tilden, Garfield, Cleveland, Cleveland, Cleveland, McKinley, McKinley, T. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Hughes, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Hoover, F. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Nixon, Reagan, Reagan, G. Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Gore, Kerry.
From a Slate piece in 2004: 'In the 1970s, northern Delaware—in particular, the Wilmington suburbs—was full of Rockefeller Republicans and the agrarian south was solidly Yellow Dog Democratic. As the Republican Party corralled the southern United States, Delaware flip-flopped too. Conservative southern Delaware turned solid Republican.'
BTW, New Jersey is going for John McCain ATM.
I personally believe that Barack Obama will win the race, yeah, both.
I love the candidates in this order: 1. Obama, 2. Clinton, 3. McCain.
I support the candidates in this order (quixotically): 1. McCain, 2. Clinton, 3. Obama. Mostly "strategically." OK, totally "strategically." LOL.
P.S. I totally forgot about Rave until tonight. I was lurking on Encyclopedia Dramatica and found out my subcultural affiliation is (again, strategically) Twink.
I'll let that sink in.
Really, though, it's just fucking Hippie. (From the ED article: "hippies always want you to waste your vote on some long shot candidate, like Dennis Kucinich"... thus, my support for McCain!)
Really, though, I'm a Raver, I guess. That's probably why I'm always shitting rainbows IRL.
What this really REALLY means, however, is: I am a Wigger. Wow, forget coming out of the closet as a faggot; this is the real deal. It also means I'm a Chav, which is (I guess) a more classy way of putting it (to me). From the article:
"[Wiggers] are what you get when you travel back in time about five years to retrieve what was barely cool about hip hop even then, clad it with a Tommy Hilfiger shirt from the JC Penney clearance rack, give it the keys to Mom's car, and send it to the local strip mall to mean-mug everybody while blasting commercials from the local hip-hop station on 6 x 9 factory speakers."
check, check, and check.
'The evolution of a wigger always has roots in some other attention-whoring, insecure, facade such as goth, punk, or just plain ol' basement-dweller. Typically, the helpless dickwad was forcibly ejected from one of these fag cultures and spent some time floundering in limbo (emo) before developing a powerful sexual attraction to Eminem. After a dark night of the soul spent throwing himself around his bedroom with a blacklight on while pining for Marshall Mathers' scrotum, he emerges reborn, wearing Dad's oversized Lee jeans, a gold-plated chain (worn outside the shirt, of course) and a desperate need to ingest loads upon loads of black cock... I mean, culture. In other words, wiggers are a natural evolution of a basement-dweller which has acquired a friend at best, or an understanding of gay fucktardery at worst. Much like the evolution of a Pikachu into a new member of Radiohead.'
Oh God why is this so true. 'The wiggerling proceeds to limp around the neighborhood as if this laughable farce has been his persona all along.
Wiggerdom, per se, is a tabula rasa. After the initial process of hatchery, the wiggerling can wander into several different potential subcategories, depending on what was playing on TRL during the imprinting stage.'
Anyway. '
Wiggerness
Thursday, March 13, 2008
SLAVOJ ZIZEK ON TITANIC (this is dedicated to you evil upper class bitches, you know who you are...)
'...the most successful film of all times: is Cameron's Titanic really about the catastrophe of the ship hitting the ice-berg? One should be attentive to the precise moment of the catastrophe: it takes place when the two young lovers (Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslett), immediately after consummating their amorous link in the sexual act, return to the ship's deck. This, however, is not all: if this were all, then the catastrophe would have been simply the punishment of Fate for the double transgression (illegitimate sexual act; crossing the class divisions). What is more crucial is that, on the deck, Kate passionately says to her lover that, when the ship will reach New York the next morning, she will leave with him, preferring poor life with her true love to the false corrupted life among the rich; at THIS moment the ship hits the ice-berg, in order to PREVENT what would undoubtedly have been the TRUE catastrophe, namely the couple's life in New York - one can safely guess that soon, the misery of everyday life would destroy their love. The catastrophe thus occurs in order to safe their love, in order to sustain the illusion that, if it were not to happen, they would have lived "happily forever after"...
But even this is not all; a further clue is provided by the final moments of di Caprio. He is freezing in the cold water, dying, while Winslet is safely floating on a large piece of wood; aware that she is losing him, she cries: "I'll never let you go!", and, while saying this, she pushes him away with her hands - why? Beneath the story of a love couple, Titanic tells another story, the story of a spoiled high-society girl in an identity-crisis: she is confused, doesn't know what to do with herself, and, much more than her love partner, di Caprio is a kind of "vanishing mediator" whose function is to restore her sense of identity and purpose in life, her self-image (quite literally, also: he draws her image); once his job is done, he can disappear. This is why his last words, before he disappears in freezing North Atlantic, are not the words of a departing lover's, but, rather, the last message of a preacher, telling her how to lead her life, to be honest and faithful to herself, etc. What this means is that Cameron's superficial Hollywood-Marxism (his all too obvious privileging of the lower classes and caricatural depiction of the cruel egotism and opportunism of the rich) should not deceive us: beneath this sympathy for the poor, there is another narrative, the profoundly reactionary myth, first fully deployed by Kipling's Captain Courageous, of a young rich person in crisis who gets his (or her) vitality restored by a brief intimate contact with the full-blooded life of the poor. What lurks behind the compassion for the poor is their vampiric exploitation.'
But even this is not all; a further clue is provided by the final moments of di Caprio. He is freezing in the cold water, dying, while Winslet is safely floating on a large piece of wood; aware that she is losing him, she cries: "I'll never let you go!", and, while saying this, she pushes him away with her hands - why? Beneath the story of a love couple, Titanic tells another story, the story of a spoiled high-society girl in an identity-crisis: she is confused, doesn't know what to do with herself, and, much more than her love partner, di Caprio is a kind of "vanishing mediator" whose function is to restore her sense of identity and purpose in life, her self-image (quite literally, also: he draws her image); once his job is done, he can disappear. This is why his last words, before he disappears in freezing North Atlantic, are not the words of a departing lover's, but, rather, the last message of a preacher, telling her how to lead her life, to be honest and faithful to herself, etc. What this means is that Cameron's superficial Hollywood-Marxism (his all too obvious privileging of the lower classes and caricatural depiction of the cruel egotism and opportunism of the rich) should not deceive us: beneath this sympathy for the poor, there is another narrative, the profoundly reactionary myth, first fully deployed by Kipling's Captain Courageous, of a young rich person in crisis who gets his (or her) vitality restored by a brief intimate contact with the full-blooded life of the poor. What lurks behind the compassion for the poor is their vampiric exploitation.'
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
In addition to meat, I need to start eating dried fruit and candy only as part of a meal.
And not snack -- only eat three times a day. No more! And brush my teeth after meals, and floss once a day. PROTIP: Milk, cheddar cheese can stop plaque if eaten after plaque-causing sugary foods. Xylitol gum helps too. So do eat milk and cheese. Foods high in fiber. And sugarfree chewing gum.
No More Fucking Potato Chips OH MY GOD
Definitely only eat sugar containing foods with meals. Fresh fruit and fruit juices -- brush teeth afterwards, definitely. Cuz they have fructose, which can cause plaque too. But breads, cereals, fruits, vegetables, dairy, lean meat, fish, and poultry are all essential. Brush teeth after every meal and also at bedtime (and floss then too). Play a "favorite" song while brushing yr teeth.
Altoids have sugar.
And not snack -- only eat three times a day. No more! And brush my teeth after meals, and floss once a day. PROTIP: Milk, cheddar cheese can stop plaque if eaten after plaque-causing sugary foods. Xylitol gum helps too. So do eat milk and cheese. Foods high in fiber. And sugarfree chewing gum.
No More Fucking Potato Chips OH MY GOD
Definitely only eat sugar containing foods with meals. Fresh fruit and fruit juices -- brush teeth afterwards, definitely. Cuz they have fructose, which can cause plaque too. But breads, cereals, fruits, vegetables, dairy, lean meat, fish, and poultry are all essential. Brush teeth after every meal and also at bedtime (and floss then too). Play a "favorite" song while brushing yr teeth.
- Carefully insert the floss between two teeth, using a back and forth motion. Gently bring the floss to the gumline, but don't force it under the gums. Curve the floss around the edge of your tooth in the shape of the letter "C" and slide it up and down the side of each tooth.
- Repeat this process between all your teeth, and remember to floss the back sides of your back teeth. (UNWAXED)
Altoids have sugar.
- Eat carbohydrates (sugars and starches) with a meal.
- If you can't brush your teeth after eating, rinse your mouth with water or mouthwash, or chew sugarless gum.
- Don't eat sugary foods between meals.
- If you snack, eat nonsugary foods, such as cheese, popcorn, raw veggies, or yogurt.
Danny
is everything bad.
- Richard Nixon was a beatnik.
- "el Guincho" is the ethereal essence of ABE VIGODA (they are both Spanish cousins, but cut off at the root; the former's from Barcelona and the latter's from Chino)
- OLYMPIA WASHINGTON has this to say about Abe Vigoda " Like all the scuzz and fake tropicalisms of Los Angeles shoved together - irrigated desert!" [Kill Rock Stars] God I wish I could say/show more. Hold on...
http://naturetrumps.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/opening-tonight-in-pasadena
El Rio de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula
- Richard Nixon was a beatnik.
- "el Guincho" is the ethereal essence of ABE VIGODA (they are both Spanish cousins, but cut off at the root; the former's from Barcelona and the latter's from Chino)
- OLYMPIA WASHINGTON has this to say about Abe Vigoda " Like all the scuzz and fake tropicalisms of Los Angeles shoved together - irrigated desert!" [Kill Rock Stars] God I wish I could say/show more. Hold on...
http://naturetrumps.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/opening-tonight-in-pasadena
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Linx
Periodicals:
- The Huffington Post.
- Slate.
- The Times of London.
- The Guardian UK. - I'm an Anglophile.
- The New York Times. - The paper of record.
- The New York Observer. - Nice.
- Salon.com.
- Pitchforkmedia.com - The NME of Today. Chicago. Indie.
- Dusted magazine. - A more outre P-Fork.
- FACT magazine. - UK. Somewhat up-and-coming.
- Armavirumquecano. - Blog of The New Criterion.
- New Statesman (weekly). - UK
- The Nation.
- New York magazine (weekly.)
- Miss Manners (weekly).
- Prospect magazine UK (monthly). - Free articles in this, a left-centre publication from one of the editors of the Financial Times.
- The New Criterion (monthly).
- New York Review of Books
- Harpers.
- Conde Nast Portfolio.
- Wired.
- XLR8R. - Better than Urb. Free.
- n+1. - A younger version of The New Criterion.
- Arthur magazine. - L.A.'s answer to Vice. Also free.
- Maakies.
- Adult Swim.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
This blog makes no sense. But I have to write my shit out in public because I'm a douchebag. That being said, I still can't say what I really want to say, because it's too vulgar and might get me in trouble. So I have to keep it clean, and noone wants to read it.
OK.
But that is the whole point of blogs anyway, duh. I have been following some religious rules (Rastafari/Leviticus/the Torah/Nazirite vow/Kabbalah/Mormon) for a while now, and they've stopped working, so now I turn to Vice for my "rules." Thank God for Vice.
This is what they say about drugs:
- smoke weed whenever you want, but not at work.
- no bumps of coke after 4:30 a.m.
- one night of heroin is OK every six months if you're under 25. if you're over 25, you have to rely on pills to get your opiate fix every six months. if you have kids, you have to leave opiates behind altogether until you're retired.
I didn't make the rules. I know you don't like them. But there they are, all the same.
It might also be good to keep in mind what Eminem said about drugs -- I forget what exactly, but he has a list of what he does and doesn't do. OTOH, do more than twenty hits of acid in your life and you're certifiably mad.
Also, outstaying your welcome is one of the world's biggest DON'TS, apparently, but that's all
I do ever. I don't know how not to outstay my welcome. I'm a complete friggin' loser. I can't even say the f word. (The worst thing is not just being a loser, but knowing it, too, and being unable to do anything about it.)
Also: don't ever say no to a reasonable invitation to do something that might be fun. Hmm.
I wish I was a drug dealer, damn. Drugs and religion for people who can't afford drugs -- this is the economy of the future, according to John N. Gray (and I agree with him, too).
Coke is not a problem drug (though people can have problems with it). Crack and heroin are problem drugs. (Again, this is according to Vice magazine.)
My parents are also stupid gaylords, because they have not happily paid for all of my education. In fact, they haven't paid for shit. I hate my fucking parents.
OK.
But that is the whole point of blogs anyway, duh. I have been following some religious rules (Rastafari/Leviticus/the Torah/Nazirite vow/Kabbalah/Mormon) for a while now, and they've stopped working, so now I turn to Vice for my "rules." Thank God for Vice.
This is what they say about drugs:
- smoke weed whenever you want, but not at work.
- no bumps of coke after 4:30 a.m.
- one night of heroin is OK every six months if you're under 25. if you're over 25, you have to rely on pills to get your opiate fix every six months. if you have kids, you have to leave opiates behind altogether until you're retired.
I didn't make the rules. I know you don't like them. But there they are, all the same.
It might also be good to keep in mind what Eminem said about drugs -- I forget what exactly, but he has a list of what he does and doesn't do. OTOH, do more than twenty hits of acid in your life and you're certifiably mad.
Also, outstaying your welcome is one of the world's biggest DON'TS, apparently, but that's all
I do ever. I don't know how not to outstay my welcome. I'm a complete friggin' loser. I can't even say the f word. (The worst thing is not just being a loser, but knowing it, too, and being unable to do anything about it.)
Also: don't ever say no to a reasonable invitation to do something that might be fun. Hmm.
I wish I was a drug dealer, damn. Drugs and religion for people who can't afford drugs -- this is the economy of the future, according to John N. Gray (and I agree with him, too).
Coke is not a problem drug (though people can have problems with it). Crack and heroin are problem drugs. (Again, this is according to Vice magazine.)
My parents are also stupid gaylords, because they have not happily paid for all of my education. In fact, they haven't paid for shit. I hate my fucking parents.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
By my decree, the only cities that matter...
1. ISTANBUL (Western)
2. TOKYO (Eastern)
(Yes, West comes first. Just the way it is, folks. But East has the money power, or Shiva power, or potential power, or power, for what it's worth. West still has the energy, though.)
And what this means in terms of foreign policy:
- Barack Obama will win the race for president. (Not sure if that ties in actually, just throwing it out there.)
- Sunnis will again control Iraq.
- Iran will settle down.
- Kurds will not settle down.
- Turkey will join EU.
- Turkey will bomb Kurds. Kill Kurds. Slaughter them.
- Iran will fight Turkey.
- Iraq will fight Iraq, in Iraq.
- Turkey will win, Sunnis will win, Kurds will lose, Iran will lose. Mysticism will lose. Monism will lose. Money will lose. Monotheism will win. And we will rue the day, those of us who are mystical and monist and money oriented. Like Devendra Banhart, for example. And Barack Obama.
Also, US boys will see lotta action maybe. Maybe not. Why not? Why wouldn't they. Sure we will. Yuck who knows what's gonna happen in the next 15-20 years. 2012's a bust, though, hippies, wake up.
1. ISTANBUL (Western)
2. TOKYO (Eastern)
(Yes, West comes first. Just the way it is, folks. But East has the money power, or Shiva power, or potential power, or power, for what it's worth. West still has the energy, though.)
And what this means in terms of foreign policy:
- Barack Obama will win the race for president. (Not sure if that ties in actually, just throwing it out there.)
- Sunnis will again control Iraq.
- Iran will settle down.
- Kurds will not settle down.
- Turkey will join EU.
- Turkey will bomb Kurds. Kill Kurds. Slaughter them.
- Iran will fight Turkey.
- Iraq will fight Iraq, in Iraq.
- Turkey will win, Sunnis will win, Kurds will lose, Iran will lose. Mysticism will lose. Monism will lose. Money will lose. Monotheism will win. And we will rue the day, those of us who are mystical and monist and money oriented. Like Devendra Banhart, for example. And Barack Obama.
Also, US boys will see lotta action maybe. Maybe not. Why not? Why wouldn't they. Sure we will. Yuck who knows what's gonna happen in the next 15-20 years. 2012's a bust, though, hippies, wake up.
Friday, February 29, 2008
i swear, i'm not a prophet for psychedelics. anymore. really.
The interruption of tonic sensory inhibition (also known as disinhibition), is what allows the senses to function beyond their normal range in psychedelic sessions. Low doses work best for simply augmenting sensory capacity, but higher doses tend to overload the senses with tangentially recursive phantasmagoria. With the proper mild dose of psychedelics it is true you can become super functioning, enjoying better hearing, better vision, better reflexes, better physical acuity, better muscle flexibility, better mood, and a sense of invincibility.
- from some other blog. what the heck is "tangentially recursive phantasmagoria"? cuz i think i have that.
- from some other blog. what the heck is "tangentially recursive phantasmagoria"? cuz i think i have that.
"Heidegger is the only Western Philosopher who not only intellectually understands but has intuitively grasped Taoist thought." - Chang Chung-Yuan (tho' I have no idea who that is and am thoroughly Western and even Christian, or monotheistic/Abrahamic/Ibrahimic in outlook myself///which is maybe Semitic as well, insofar as Semite contrasts with Indo-European and I think it does though I'm not sure how maybe it's agriculturalist vs pastoralist [an idea I got from 'shroom-and-tumor-head Terence McKenna, don't get me wrong] but more aptly (And this then fitting in the Main Line of my thinking) it's the outlook of the Slaved versus the Slave[drive]r, the Peasant vs the Lord. I am an eternal Peasant.)
Some thoughts on going beyond Nietzsche:
1. embrace Kierkegaard. (and by extension, existention--
(The parable of Nietzsche's life scares me, and reminds me how I'm inexorably headed for darkness and hell. None of which bothers me, ultimately, as much as it should bother you!)
To elaborate on concept above (Peasant vs Lord):
Peasant faiths-- Sh'ia, Mandean, Yazdi, Zoroastrian, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, animist
Lord-- Sunni, Muslim, Jewish, Christian. wow three faiths, exciting. (I guess this is like Nietzsche's evocation of Christianity as "slave morality" except with sociological exactness -- only lords need to go to a church to learn about slave morality.)
Some thoughts on going beyond Nietzsche:
1. embrace Kierkegaard. (and by extension, existention--
(The parable of Nietzsche's life scares me, and reminds me how I'm inexorably headed for darkness and hell. None of which bothers me, ultimately, as much as it should bother you!)
To elaborate on concept above (Peasant vs Lord):
Peasant faiths-- Sh'ia, Mandean, Yazdi, Zoroastrian, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, animist
Lord-- Sunni, Muslim, Jewish, Christian. wow three faiths, exciting. (I guess this is like Nietzsche's evocation of Christianity as "slave morality" except with sociological exactness -- only lords need to go to a church to learn about slave morality.)
Friday, February 22, 2008
Schedule
It goes like this:
- 5 a.m. - get up. [not MWF, on those days just leave the house, or eat breakfast first:] Meditate for 5 minutes in room, on pillows - breath 10 seconds in, breath 10 seconds out. Eat breakfast. Read in the front parlor in the sun (when the sun is up). (Can also read other places and other things -- like on the internet. Actually, check messageboard on Blackboard daily after breakfast. Then play Riven until it becomes uncomfortable to do so. Actually, play Riven first. Then go on Blackboard.) TTh -- leave house at 6:30 a.m. to ride bike to school. Geology until 10:30 a.m. Go do geology homework and chapter questions, get whatever help you need on math (at least once a week stop in), and read lit text and go on to blackboard to join discussion and type rough drafts of the LMs.) (Saturday -- leave house after lunch to go and work on Literature some more - check out book again, read stories again. Go on blackboard to finish LMs. [Or stay home and do it at home.] -- I work on Geology at school only, on Mathematics at home only, and Literature both.)
- 12:30 p.m. - lunch. (also I read the newspaper while eating). Go into sun room and use laptop (do chapter test for geology after doing homework for that chapter). Can do math homework too.
- 6:30 p.m. - supper. Now I actually watch television: Food Network, or basically Fox, or maybe Family Guy, with exceptions for a few shows such as Man vs. Wild and some others that haven't been on so long due to the writers' strike, I've forgotten about them. Though they're back on now, I guess. Except for the ones that aren't. When I read New York Times articles about this, I feel so embarrassed for Hollywood ("you're making a scene"). TV watching from 6 to 9 is usually downstairs, in my aunt's office, where I feel safe. (Do math homework during commercials or not-want-to-watch programming)
- 8 p.m. - might switch to Comedy Central here.
- 9 p.m. - might switch to DVDs here. Go upstairs usually, anyway, to the living room.
- When I'm sleepy - read a few minutes of whatever book I'm reading, draw a bath. Hit the sack. If I have been lying awake for 20 minutes on the clock, I get out of bed and play Internet Backgammon, I guess.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Now, for a new post...
I may not be a neocon anymore, but I've decided that when it comes to the arts, it is quite uncool to turn anywhere other than neoconservative opinion. This applies to such publications as the Wall Street Journal and the New Criterion. I suppose it would also apply to the National Review, tho' that's less likely seeing as it's strictly a journal of opinion. Still, better than the New Republic, I should think. Or no? I don't. There may be some sort of split here -- if it's got politics right, it doesn't have the arts right, and vice-a versa.
The Nation is a liberal journal. (What -- socialist? Marxist? Can you believe this shit?)
[EDIT: I'm totally socialist now. ? I just don't(can't) let it define my identity.]
The New Republic is a moderate journal. (Generally considered neoliberal I suppose.) Perhaps center-left is better terminology.
The National Review is a conservative journal. (Also, nowadays neocon, but with a trad streak, though not to be found in Jonah Goldberg's columns.)
More outre would be the various Communist, anarchist (such as Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, which depending on its stance could be considered to be on the left or simply not on there at all) and paleoconservative (up-and-coming category, including the new- [American Conservative] and the old-fashioned [Chronicles]...it isn't fair to say that this movement is indebted to Hayek, but it is).
Also established, and not outre at all, are the neo-libertarian (as opposed to paleo-libertarian, which is frequently indistinguishable from paleocon...I suppose the latter is who writes in print and the former is who writes on the Internet) -- Reason, and the neoconservative (Commentary, The Weekly Standard, etc.).
But what I was saying was that I look for my arts coverage in the conservative world, I guess.
The Nation is a liberal journal. (What -- socialist? Marxist? Can you believe this shit?)
[EDIT: I'm totally socialist now. ? I just don't(can't) let it define my identity.]
The New Republic is a moderate journal. (Generally considered neoliberal I suppose.) Perhaps center-left is better terminology.
The National Review is a conservative journal. (Also, nowadays neocon, but with a trad streak, though not to be found in Jonah Goldberg's columns.)
More outre would be the various Communist, anarchist (such as Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, which depending on its stance could be considered to be on the left or simply not on there at all) and paleoconservative (up-and-coming category, including the new- [American Conservative] and the old-fashioned [Chronicles]...it isn't fair to say that this movement is indebted to Hayek, but it is).
Also established, and not outre at all, are the neo-libertarian (as opposed to paleo-libertarian, which is frequently indistinguishable from paleocon...I suppose the latter is who writes in print and the former is who writes on the Internet) -- Reason, and the neoconservative (Commentary, The Weekly Standard, etc.).
But what I was saying was that I look for my arts coverage in the conservative world, I guess.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Given the indetermine answer on Japanese culture...
I feel that I should point out, to myself if no one else, that my version of Japanese culture has more to do with its white, Episcopalian (meaning high WASP), American interpretation than with Japan itself. An interpretation, I might add, that is so thoroughly Americanized it allows for the drinking of herbal tea rather than green tea, and the sitting on chairs (or even laying flat on your back) when necessary.
Still, I wonder...is Zen really necessary at all? I mean is it? Or is it just a waste of freaking time? God, I wish I knew.
Because I do feel it might be somehow unnecessary. Doesn't mean I shouldn't practice, but also, if I find it inconvenient to practice, I might want to avoid it.
(OK I'm researching seppuku. Well, it seems to be a samurai practice. As Soto Zen is distinctively "farmer" and not "samurai" Zen [Rinzai] it looks as though I'm well in the clear here. Soto Zen = safe.)
Still, I wonder...is Zen really necessary at all? I mean is it? Or is it just a waste of freaking time? God, I wish I knew.
Because I do feel it might be somehow unnecessary. Doesn't mean I shouldn't practice, but also, if I find it inconvenient to practice, I might want to avoid it.
(OK I'm researching seppuku. Well, it seems to be a samurai practice. As Soto Zen is distinctively "farmer" and not "samurai" Zen [Rinzai] it looks as though I'm well in the clear here. Soto Zen = safe.)
It's time for a post on religion.
OK...I need to get my religious house in order.
I consider myself a Latter-Day Saint. I have no connection to the LDS church, nor do I actively seek one. I believe that the weirdo polygamists will prove to be the center of the Latter-Day Saint movement in the future, because their commitment is by far the strongest (at least compared to the mainstream LDS church).
Not that I would disavow membership in the mainstream LDS church, but I wouldn't actively seek it, either.
I strongly identify with the Peyotist branch of the Latter-Day Saint Movement. It's true, they're intertwined, especially down Arizona way. Like, Southern Arizona. Tucson-ish. I follow the Word of Wisdom - no alcohol, tobacco, tea, or coffee.
Further, I am a Zen Buddhist. Or is it lesser? This is what I am having trouble figuring out. My Zen Buddhism is definitely an American form -- yes, I don't see the trouble with also being a Zen Buddhist. Soto Zen, Shunryu Suzuki lineage (through Zentatsu Baker). If I live in Santa Fe (which I hope to), there is the Upaya Zen Center there. I kind of see Zen as a daily-life religion for this early part of my life. In the end I should gravitate more towards the Latter-Day Saint Movement, and even the LDS church proper.
Zen...what is there to say about it? I feel like philosophical Taoism is the highest of teachings (this comes from John Gray, my fav philosopher). Chuang Tzu, in particular. And yet--the practice of Soto Zen, which comes directly from Southern Chinese (Taoist) Ch'an traditions--I just don't know. Is it more or less important than Peyotism/LDS? Is that even the right question to ask? I suppose it isn't, because I honestly can't answer it. It isn't about religions, or especially cultures; it's simply about practices (namely, Upaya, Crestone, & peyote). Insofar as it is about cultures, I have most affinity with the Mormon world, I think -- including Polynesia. Or do I? Why not Japan? Well, maybe I do have more affinity with Japan. Why not? I suppose certain aspects of Japanese culture scare me. Namely hara-kiri. But yeah given all that is good and great in Japanese culture, it seems unnecessary to single out a few bad practices. Or does it? I suppose I can't help it. I am a creature of the North, as are the Japanese people. Everything else will have to work itself out. Japan scares me, it's true; Polynesia doesn't. But that fear may be irrational; it may not be. Either way, nothing proposes an answer so I'll have to feel my way out.
On the whole, I'm safe with Japan. But to check myself, and because it simply makes sense, I also follow the Leviticus and Deutoronomy books (where applicable) and have taken the Nazerite vow -- all of this through the eyes of the Rastafari movement, though with help from Hasidim/Kabbalah where necessary.
OK...I need to get my religious house in order.
I consider myself a Latter-Day Saint. I have no connection to the LDS church, nor do I actively seek one. I believe that the weirdo polygamists will prove to be the center of the Latter-Day Saint movement in the future, because their commitment is by far the strongest (at least compared to the mainstream LDS church).
Not that I would disavow membership in the mainstream LDS church, but I wouldn't actively seek it, either.
I strongly identify with the Peyotist branch of the Latter-Day Saint Movement. It's true, they're intertwined, especially down Arizona way. Like, Southern Arizona. Tucson-ish. I follow the Word of Wisdom - no alcohol, tobacco, tea, or coffee.
Further, I am a Zen Buddhist. Or is it lesser? This is what I am having trouble figuring out. My Zen Buddhism is definitely an American form -- yes, I don't see the trouble with also being a Zen Buddhist. Soto Zen, Shunryu Suzuki lineage (through Zentatsu Baker). If I live in Santa Fe (which I hope to), there is the Upaya Zen Center there. I kind of see Zen as a daily-life religion for this early part of my life. In the end I should gravitate more towards the Latter-Day Saint Movement, and even the LDS church proper.
Zen...what is there to say about it? I feel like philosophical Taoism is the highest of teachings (this comes from John Gray, my fav philosopher). Chuang Tzu, in particular. And yet--the practice of Soto Zen, which comes directly from Southern Chinese (Taoist) Ch'an traditions--I just don't know. Is it more or less important than Peyotism/LDS? Is that even the right question to ask? I suppose it isn't, because I honestly can't answer it. It isn't about religions, or especially cultures; it's simply about practices (namely, Upaya, Crestone, & peyote). Insofar as it is about cultures, I have most affinity with the Mormon world, I think -- including Polynesia. Or do I? Why not Japan? Well, maybe I do have more affinity with Japan. Why not? I suppose certain aspects of Japanese culture scare me. Namely hara-kiri. But yeah given all that is good and great in Japanese culture, it seems unnecessary to single out a few bad practices. Or does it? I suppose I can't help it. I am a creature of the North, as are the Japanese people. Everything else will have to work itself out. Japan scares me, it's true; Polynesia doesn't. But that fear may be irrational; it may not be. Either way, nothing proposes an answer so I'll have to feel my way out.
On the whole, I'm safe with Japan. But to check myself, and because it simply makes sense, I also follow the Leviticus and Deutoronomy books (where applicable) and have taken the Nazerite vow -- all of this through the eyes of the Rastafari movement, though with help from Hasidim/Kabbalah where necessary.
btw, I'm not a neocon anymore. I do support Mitt Romney. But...that's complicated. He won't win, I don't think anyway -- and I can't bring myself to support Hillary Clinton, despite all the obvious reasons why should be president. Because my vote doesn't matter, nobody listens to me, and Mitt Romney at least deserves my support for trying to be nice about his conservatism.
I know I'll come to regret this later on. But that's OK, for now it serves my purposes to support Mitt Romney. Plus he's a Mormon, which is good, and in fact descends from some of the most original scorched-earth Mexican-colony polygamist Kings of the Kingdom of God Mormons of all time. This guy is American hardcore.
I like Big Love too much not to fall for this guy.
PLUS: Barack Obama -- I like the guy, but he's trying too hard. One sees it in his face: he's tired. He needs to stop, and rest, or he'll have no future at all. Mark my words -- this man is in trouble. Don't support him, guys. You're only egging him on when he needs to chill it. Because no man can fight the Hillary machine (except John McCain -- and that's the other and perhaps most important reason I strategically support Mitt Romney -- John McCain in the White House would be a fiasco of Satanic proportions, not that the man is Satan, but he is too weak to fend of the Dark Lord's minions...and what's more is he knows it too, but doesn't care. He only cares about himself. Kind of like me. Therefore it is my right to not support McCain, as a way of metaphorically mitigating my own propensity to selfishness...plus I really don't want him to win, I want Hillary to win, I want free health care, I want a better funded educational system...But again I can't support Hillary without at least giving credence, or some, to Barack Obama. Or so I thought at the time. Maybe it doesn't matter after all. Maybe I can just support Hillary. Though now I've come out for Mitt, it would be unconscionable to go for Hillary. No, I can't. I must uphold my social obligations and support Mitt Romney. A kind of hara-kiri I know. But when done with precision and elegance, that ain't so bad, is it? I'll think about that.).
I know I'll come to regret this later on. But that's OK, for now it serves my purposes to support Mitt Romney. Plus he's a Mormon, which is good, and in fact descends from some of the most original scorched-earth Mexican-colony polygamist Kings of the Kingdom of God Mormons of all time. This guy is American hardcore.
I like Big Love too much not to fall for this guy.
PLUS: Barack Obama -- I like the guy, but he's trying too hard. One sees it in his face: he's tired. He needs to stop, and rest, or he'll have no future at all. Mark my words -- this man is in trouble. Don't support him, guys. You're only egging him on when he needs to chill it. Because no man can fight the Hillary machine (except John McCain -- and that's the other and perhaps most important reason I strategically support Mitt Romney -- John McCain in the White House would be a fiasco of Satanic proportions, not that the man is Satan, but he is too weak to fend of the Dark Lord's minions...and what's more is he knows it too, but doesn't care. He only cares about himself. Kind of like me. Therefore it is my right to not support McCain, as a way of metaphorically mitigating my own propensity to selfishness...plus I really don't want him to win, I want Hillary to win, I want free health care, I want a better funded educational system...But again I can't support Hillary without at least giving credence, or some, to Barack Obama. Or so I thought at the time. Maybe it doesn't matter after all. Maybe I can just support Hillary. Though now I've come out for Mitt, it would be unconscionable to go for Hillary. No, I can't. I must uphold my social obligations and support Mitt Romney. A kind of hara-kiri I know. But when done with precision and elegance, that ain't so bad, is it? I'll think about that.).
How do you finish the season in NFL history with the most winning games ever by losing the lead in the fourth quarter, gaining it again, and then finally losing it again in the final 90 seconds?
Look, I've rationalized this out: it doesn't matter if they lost the Super Bowl, because they still have the most winning games in a single season EVER. 18-0. That's enough for now. Next year, they'll do better. If they want to.
Goddammit.
Look, I've rationalized this out: it doesn't matter if they lost the Super Bowl, because they still have the most winning games in a single season EVER. 18-0. That's enough for now. Next year, they'll do better. If they want to.
Goddammit.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
From Joe Carducci's new history of the SST era:
"In the van Black Flag threw empty coffee cups and orange juice bottles down onto the rocker panels; when they stopped somewhere they simply kicked the garbage into the street. Trashing? Graffiti-ing? Postering? Pissing? Los Angeles seemed the fallen dream of generations of transplants; the locals, now acclimated to its harsh scape didn't see the point in taking care of it. It took care of itself. It just was. And this was quite unlike other cities. It was part of what make punks in the rest of the country feel like naïve goo-goo hippies when the L.A. bands rolled up."
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
Guardian: "Inequality is closing down our concern to care for others"
Well, duh.
This kind of explains, more clearly, the sentiment of Michael Lind's in a piece from 2004 in the Prospect magazine UK, on Red States vs Blue States. i would summarize, but then you wouldn't read the article, would you? well, i'll give it a shot anyway:
- the middle classes (and the revelation is that this is in fact the middle classes who are feeling this way, or what's left of them anyway) may support collective wealth overall, but individually they will support neoliberal economic policies if it benefits them individually (which it almost always does). so there you have it.
(as an aside, i think that it is important not to be attached to ideology, economic or otherwise, one way or another. old-fashioned realism, i guess you could say, though it's an idea that's ready and ripe once again. but since i'm an intellectual, and Marxism still is the reigning mode of academic thought -- it's important that we can at least open ourselves up to, let us say, a pre-Marxist mode of economic thought, one in which a universe of economic possibilities presents itself to us. such as, let's say, mercantilism. right? i don't know anything.)
(but it's important that we recognize this as simply being a symptom, rather than a cause, of the age we live in and its deleterious effects on just about all of us...except those who profess otherwise, being perhaps the middle class alluded to above...though they only do so for their plain economic benefit and without knowledge of the harm done in the long run! this is the fate of those with something to lose, though not enough to keep them from doing so anyway.)
(as Lukacs said, anyway, is that what we are missing is simple: God. well, there it is, in a word, folks.)
--
EDIT: well, there is some intellectual inconsistency here. do the middle class really support neoliberalism? well, yes, probably. nevermind, then.
--
what this amounts to, then, may be a defense, perhaps, of neoliberalisme. why not? only in the particulars. my worldview is far more medieval and musty than that.
--
which makes me a neocon, lol.
Well, duh.
This kind of explains, more clearly, the sentiment of Michael Lind's in a piece from 2004 in the Prospect magazine UK, on Red States vs Blue States. i would summarize, but then you wouldn't read the article, would you? well, i'll give it a shot anyway:
- the middle classes (and the revelation is that this is in fact the middle classes who are feeling this way, or what's left of them anyway) may support collective wealth overall, but individually they will support neoliberal economic policies if it benefits them individually (which it almost always does). so there you have it.
(as an aside, i think that it is important not to be attached to ideology, economic or otherwise, one way or another. old-fashioned realism, i guess you could say, though it's an idea that's ready and ripe once again. but since i'm an intellectual, and Marxism still is the reigning mode of academic thought -- it's important that we can at least open ourselves up to, let us say, a pre-Marxist mode of economic thought, one in which a universe of economic possibilities presents itself to us. such as, let's say, mercantilism. right? i don't know anything.)
(but it's important that we recognize this as simply being a symptom, rather than a cause, of the age we live in and its deleterious effects on just about all of us...except those who profess otherwise, being perhaps the middle class alluded to above...though they only do so for their plain economic benefit and without knowledge of the harm done in the long run! this is the fate of those with something to lose, though not enough to keep them from doing so anyway.)
(as Lukacs said, anyway, is that what we are missing is simple: God. well, there it is, in a word, folks.)
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EDIT: well, there is some intellectual inconsistency here. do the middle class really support neoliberalism? well, yes, probably. nevermind, then.
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what this amounts to, then, may be a defense, perhaps, of neoliberalisme. why not? only in the particulars. my worldview is far more medieval and musty than that.
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which makes me a neocon, lol.
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