caroljane

Obviously you are learning avidly what Infidel and his ilk preach that all Muslims are taught. How many Muslims do you know personally and interact with daily, for how many years have you done it? How much time have you spent in Muslim countries?

Well, maybe you should exit OL before you die crazy in an asylum. You are already over halfway there, and you probably should not push your luck. Ghs Bye. WHAT? Bye? She actually exited, just because you told her to? Goshdurn you George, you druv her off afore the rest of us could get a good tasty bite out of her. Dang it.

It is clear what you say does. It clears you of any responsibility to deal seriously with ideas. Ghs It is clear what you say does. It clears you of any responsibility to deal seriously with ideas. Ghs Why should we believe Foucault is not "people" either?

Would you prefer a more lengthy insult next time? All you need do is ask, and ND would almost certainly oblige. Ghs Here's a somewhat longer braying ass video for Phil. We aim to please. Indeed, he says to brace yourself for its arrival in September! I plan to "read it through Spengler". http://www.peikoff.c...dim-hypothesis/ Would you prefer a more lengthy insult next time? All you need do is ask, and ND would almost certainly oblige. Ghs Here's a somewhat longer braying ass video for Phil. We aim to please. Indeed, he says to brace yourself for its arrival in September! I plan to "read it through Spengler". http://www.peikoff.c...dim-hypothesis/ I shall absorb it through "Rilla of Ingleside" as I do everything.

I'll take your word. My earliest crushes were all on shortish French Canadians and exotic types, but they were not regularly returned, The ones who crushed on me seemed to be tall Brits (my English fiance was 6'5) and my husband was 6'1'.. Obviously Brandens sexual magnetism was a component of his success with Rand and with NBI. Still, he wasn;t Galt was he.

...., he seemed taller than he seems to me today. I Ellen Very interesting Ellen, I wonder how the perspectives of others have altered.

Really if you ask questions like that you can never find out anything or know anything. Yeah, Brant. We have a true intellectual in our midst, at long last, so shut up and pay attention! Yeah! Geez, Brant. Shape up. You call those questions? You should be ashamed in front of the whole Lycee.

..who categorize, according to a system arduously learnt and ardently devoured, a system which assigns everyone and everything to its place in whatever universe you consent to exist. There are too many of these people. In related news, the DIM Hypothesis is coming out this year, for sure!

There will be a plaque erected, where they died. For Rona, Zainab, Sahra and Geeti. I hope they will also plant four rosebushes, for the four lives which were never allowed to bloom. Today I spoke with my good friend Nasim, a devout Ismaili Muslim. She believes in capital punishment, I don't, so I said to her, "I suppose you think they should be executed." "No", she said. "Why should death come to them so easily?" Also today I enrolled a new student, who arrived in Canada from Afghanistan three months ago.She is 20. She came with her brother, who helped her fill out the form. They look very alike, almost like twins.

Yeah. Foucault was in my mom's bookshelf in 1972. I finished reading what she had (Madness & Civ, abridged) before I graduated, and got some very good things out of it. Later, I fell in love with the beautiful prose and humanity of Roland Barthes, and tried hard to shave off the bumf, jargon, hall-of-mirrors, navel-fucking of some of the latter big French fucks, and so could squeeze out a drop or two of sweet nectar from Deleuze (whose aphoristice style I liked at times; grimly ironic, self-defeating, containing contradiction in its utterances). By the time I was involved in the Memory Wars, I saw that the Lacanian infection had completely fucked up a few faculties in the humanities. I did not understand how anyone could fall in love with such a fucking shyster, liar, plagiarist and shitty, domineering bullshit therapist. Once I got the fully fucking crazed Julia Kristeva, I considered the worst of the religious devotion to the French Fucks as just another sad fact of life. Then Frederick Crews saved me. He let me see that crashing through the Dominant Discourse of Freudian Bullshit was a dangerous job. Those who had peddled that shit all the years were deadly opposed to being pushed off their thrones, their departmental thrones, their kingdoms of influence and tenure and domination of undergraduates. You could not get above the basement level at UBC until you had been thoroughly fucked up the ass by Postmodernism. That is what is such horseshit about Janet's pretensions. As if the Dominant Discourse was not her bag of muck, in academe. As if she was even competent in criticism. I think what Janet has learned best along the way is obfuscation and dodge. She dumps her fucking bullshit on this list, and then turns her nose up at us. Fuck off, Janet. Once I read the nutcases of the Edinburgh School, the dreary Marxian reticulation in Anthropology Language, William! Janet is not the cause of these crimes but the hostage victim. Here she may be freed, who knows?

So you should be. And I acknowledge no presidents.

Elsewhere I said try Thomas Mallon's A Book of One's Own http://www.amazon.co...27966557&sr=1-9 NOt exactly what you were asking for but it will do. Do not talk about your own sex life in a bio about someone else. Save that for your own. Or call it your own not The Passion of Ayn Rand. Glug. What an unfortunate choice of a title. And she was my teacher so I feel free saying what I want about her. Has anyone else here watched her and listened to her for two years straight. Hello.......bio Your rules (or Mallone's, haven't read him) are interesting. In part, technically, you are right in that Barbara's bio did incorporate part memoir, and she presented this honestly. Xray's evaluation was right, and yours was wrong. The book was insightful, it was beautifully written. Furthermore, it was as objective as she could make it, I think, and as well researched as it could have been, given the constraints the "heir to the Estate" put on materials and even people who could give information. I have read hundreds of biographies. Have you? I am fully qualified, although not by the Sorbonne, to read them and judge them as a reader. Are you? I don't agree she presented it honestly. The title was The Passion of Ayn Rand, so why did her agoraphobia and sex neuroses have to be included. For titilation? As I said, she incorporated memoir elements and presented them honestly. As a friend as well as a biographer she disclosed her own premises, which included her own circumstances. Her title was accurate.

Phil, you are entirely right here, but she cannot get rid of the jargon because the jargon is the point of her points. It is all semiotics. In simple English it would just be the usual ideas we deal with well or badly all the time.

Wanna bet? I have been dealing with this mindset for years. When a fan of Foucault quotes Mao, the odds of a coincidence are roughly the same as when a Presbyterian quotes Augustine. Ghs Wanna bet? I have been dealing with this mindset for years. When a fan of Foucault quotes Mao, the odds of a coincidence are roughly the same as when a Presbyterian quotes Augustine. Ghs "To Carthage I came, and all around me simmered the cauldrons of unholy loves" "O God, make, me good, but not today" Carol ]ok, Anglican, but heredeterially Presbyterian

TIA for any answers. The first is for Michael, and let me preface, as you all know I have been here and indeed on the internet for a little over a year. When I came on OL and first read piecemeal the history of Solo and the Demented Diva Down Under, I actually pictured that MSK was physically there, in New Zealand in an office somewhere with Lindsay P, and all the drama. I know that is silly but I didn't then realize how different but real the cyberworld was, and maybe I never really will. So my question is, did you ever meet in person, or talk on the phone even, with him, or was it all just email and online? Second, very trivial, about Nathaniel B. He has been described as very handsome and charismatic, I picture him as short however, in fact shorter than Barbara B. How tall is the guy? This last, may be distorted by my synaesthesia. eg WSS is a redhead (brick red actually)who resembles Paul Giammatti) but I know from seeiing his videos he is brown haired and looks a little like William Hurt.

Elsewhere I said try Thomas Mallon's A Book of One's Own http://www.amazon.co...27966557&sr=1-9 NOt exactly what you were asking for but it will do. Do not talk about your own sex life in a bio about someone else. Save that for your own. Or call it your own not The Passion of Ayn Rand. Glug. What an unfortunate choice of a title. And she was my teacher so I feel free saying what I want about her. Has anyone else here watched her and listened to her for two years straight. Hello.......bio Your rules (or Mallone's, haven't read him) are interesting. In part, technically, you are right in that Barbara's bio did incorporate part memoir, and she presented this honestly. Xray's evaluation was right, and yours was wrong. The book was insightful, it was beautifully written. Furthermore, it was as objective as she could make it, I think, and as well researched as it could have been, given the constraints the "heir to the Estate" put on materials and even people who could give information. I have read hundreds of biographies. Have you? I am fully qualified, although not by the Sorbonne, to read them and judge them as a reader. Are you? Right and wrong, here we go, back into the dialectic. Here's my answer. Recently I ate at a restaurant and at the check out she pasted on a smile and said, "How was your mean today?" I said, "It was awful. Thank you for asking." (She was a woman of color.) A guy behind me said, "I thought it was really good. I'll come back again." I said, "Well I guess it was really good if you are used to eating at McDonald's." It's all relative said Einstein. Don't feel bad about not teaching at the Sorbonne. Foucault couldn't even come close to getting an appointment there. Neither could Baudrillard, so you are in excellent company. And they kicked out Lacan. Good, instructive answer. Did you paste on the smile because your server was a woman of colour? Did the other customer praise the food in reaction to your rudeness? Does the idea of "someone used to eating at McDonald's" influence one's taste buds? We'll never know.

Shoot, I haven’t seen Moneyball. But I have seen Rollerball, and find it fits well into the Spenglerian civilization model grid, specifically, where Democracy transitions to Caesarism. I liked Moneyball a great deal; in fact, I watched it twice, even though I'm not much of a baseball fan. But I don't recall the "Foucauldian Grid of power/knowledge in linguistic action." I thought it was a just good sports movie that happens to be true. Maybe the Foucauldian stuff happened during the locker-room pep talk. Not being versed in Foucauldian analysis, I may have missed the the complex subtleties that are previewed here: Ghs Maybe "Making Love" better yelled "Cut!" through the DD when gay hockey player Michael Ontkean doffed his gear to skate postmodernly around the rink.

Elsewhere I said try Thomas Mallon's A Book of One's Own http://www.amazon.co...27966557&sr=1-9 NOt exactly what you were asking for but it will do. Do not talk about your own sex life in a bio about someone else. Save that for your own. Or call it your own not The Passion of Ayn Rand. Glug. What an unfortunate choice of a title. And she was my teacher so I feel free saying what I want about her. Has anyone else here watched her and listened to her for two years straight. Hello.......bio Your rules (or Mallone's, haven't read him) are interesting. In part, technically, you are right in that Barbara's bio did incorporate part memoir, and she presented this honestly. Xray's evaluation was right, and yours was wrong. The book was insightful, it was beautifully written. Furthermore, it was as objective as she could make it, I think, and as well researched as it could have been, given the constraints the "heir to the Estate" put on materials and even people who could give information. I have read hundreds of biographies. Have you? I am fully qualified, although not by the Sorbonne, to read them and judge them as a reader. Are you?

Shoot, I haven’t seen Moneyball. But I have seen Rollerball, and find it fits well into the Spenglerian civilization model grid, specifically, where Democracy transitions to Caesarism. It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.Adolf Hitler Ow, my daughter-in-law just had a Caesarism, it hurts like hell afterwards! Meanwhile, elsewhere, the soiree continues. M. Forgeron addresses Mme L'Abbee in his rough suburban dialect. Naturally she refuses to respond in kind, although she knows it well. Frau Angela then approaches with a question about biography, and Mme kindly but firmly responds that the gnadige frau does not understand biography or its standards; and the company gives ear to this exchange, as she is privy to the latest arbiter of literary biography, a M. Quelqu'un who has written a book about diaries. She then sweeps into the supper-room on the arm of M. Manteau.

Question on RP: His anti-foreign intervention stance is well known, but I have not come across anything he has said about foreign aid, As a Rand fan I would expect he's against it, but he's supposed to be a Christian, what is his policy? Does he just expect private charities to take over aid to foreign countries?

Religion is definitely not the culprit in femicide. It is tribal patriarchy, practiced by the ignorant and the entitled aongst Sikhs, Palestinian Christians, Hindus, Muslims and assorted nonreligious Westerners who believe family women are their possessions, whose behaviour is merely a reflection of their own reputation.

Authoritarianism? Because I reacted when you refused to specify what you like about Foucault? Here's a flash: When someone on OL likes something or someone -- say, a book, a movie, or an author -- he or she typically begins a thread explaining why. Then other people respond. This is known as a discussion. Btw, I read your "review" of Moneyball, and I have seen the movie. What you call its "dominating discourse" and "Foucauldian Grid of power/knowledge in linguistic action," other people would call its theme, plot, and dialogue. You have illustrated the very thing I most dislike about Foucault. The guy is insufferably pretentious, and so are you. Ghs Now if we can just get her qualified as an ignoramus also, she has a good chance at McCaskey's vacant seat on the ARI board of directors!

Of course you should have! Why the hell do you think you got this gig anyway, it was hardly for your sterling record infiltrating the Lodge. West Palm Beach, of course. The whole speech was a diversionary tactic while the linchpin of the negotiations was whisked away to who knows what hellish bondage. If you do not personally spend the rest of your sorry life searching places of hellish bondage until you find him, then your sorry life will be much, much sorrier and shorter than your actuary expects. Any questions?

Beef up, Underfed! There's lots of half-baked dialectic on the buffet table today. Good job with the Times.

Diet eclectic, or it's diuretic time! The dire ethics of this world, cyber and not, require those who evangelize to do so in the dialect of the natives. Otherwise it's no loaves, no fishes.