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Shadows on the pitch: Aston Villa vs Stinkpots
(Odegaard, #5, appears to be wiping the pitch — literally — with an unfortunate Villa player. Right-click to open a bigger image in a new tab, then embiggen.) BTW, the Stinkies won. 🙁
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The Leheriya Gate at the City Palace, Jaipur, India
Image: Wikimedia/Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Sunday at the Ventura County Farmers Market
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LuckyI am so lucky to have the world's greatest brother-in-law.
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Preach, Jaroslav
Tradition is a good thing. It is traditionalism that is bad. Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide.
—Jaroslav Pelikan
(h/t blog.angloromanticism.org - btw, my new band name)
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Wild Wombats in the White House
... his entire industry is on pins and needles, terribly anxious about a Trump victory. I asked him if it’s because Trump is opposed to his industry on specific policy issues. He said no.
“That’s not it. It’s that Trump is crazy. That’s what we worry about.”
My friend’s business involves putting big chunks of money into long-range investments that already involve plenty of risk. The added risk of wild wombats in the White House with regulatory power over their deal is way too much.
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Duane ThomasRIP, Duane Thomas, one of the greatest runners in Cowboys history. When an interviewer referred to the Superbowl as "the ultimate game," Thomas' never-to-be-forgotten response was, "If it's the ultimate, why are they playing it again next year?"
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When I first sat with Wendell [Berry] to talk about educating farmers as farmers, he started by turning to the idea of love—in the fullness of the term, not sentimentalized but fully rounded, with the joyful and the difficult joined through membership in a place and with its people.
He then asked a question that I try to answer every day: what works does this love propose?Start with love, then see what works that love proposes. (H/T: @ayjay)
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from Kottke:
Public Work is an image search engine that boasts 100,000 “copyright-free” images from institutions like the NYPL, the Met, etc. It’s fast with a relatively simple interface and uses AI to auto-categorize and suggest possibly related images (both visually and content-wise). And it’s fun to just visually click around on related images. On the downside, their sourcing and attribution isn’t great — especially when compared to something like Flickr Commons.
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GOAT
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C'est Vrai
Capers are white people's fish sauce. Briny and salty and umamiful. -- my daughter
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Roses | P.S. Krøyer, 1893
Yes, please. Some of that.
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Which Vision: Sunrise or Carnage?David Brooks, quoting Michael Strain
A Trump win would play into the narrative of Americans as helpless victims. The economics of grievance is ineffective, counterproductive, and corrosive, eroding the foundations of prosperity. Messages matter. Tell people that the system is rigged, and they will aspire to less. Champion personal responsibility, and they will lift their aspirations. Promoting an optimistic vision of economic life can increase risk tolerance, ambition, effort, and dynamism.
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Moo, Baa, Cluck, OinkThe late, great Kinky Friedman:
I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.
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Hate the Sinner, Hate the Sin /David Frum, via Nick Cataggio:
Nobody seems to have language to say: We abhor, reject, repudiate, and punish all political violence, even as we maintain that Trump remains himself a promoter of such violence, a subverter of American institutions, and the very opposite of everything decent and patriotic in American life.
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