Not to mention the bards use of fronted adverbials

And Taming of the Shrew has nothing to do with sexism because it is a critique of Petruccios “taming merthods” rather than a celebration of it

(But oops we don’t do criticism)

Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in fer me

No Kings flagship rally in Philadelphia opens with Rev. Barber: We have heard that lawmakers in Minnesota have been killed…In this moment, my brothers and sisters, let us repent as a nation for all of this violence and death.

Do it the Australian way, boil until cooked and then sear on the bbq. Guaranteed succulent, safe bangers

Horrifying. It seems the best the US can hop for at the moment is that the incipient political violence can be contained. But it feels/looks more and more like Northern Ireland troubles level of discontent

Seeit, sayit, sorted (ah well)

Plato's Cave allegory, illustrated. the shadows on the cave wall are captioned "increasingly insane and extreme positions", the prisoners labeled "internet users", the figures holding the shadow's shapes labeled "algorithms", the fire labeled "random internet users expressing their idiosyncratic beliefs". the space above the cave is labeled "literally just outside" and the philosopher freed from the chains of the physical world labeled "guy who logs off"

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

Doesn't he have a suit?

So Katie and Stephen are speaking again?

But on the subject of re-reading the classics I’m just off Grapes of Wrath and Chapter 21 (“the Moving questing people were migrants now”) strikes so true in a way that it did not when I read it too long ago.

It is not a novel of course but the project is novelistic and would be reflected in so many novels of that era

I think re-reading the recent canon is also important. I’m re-reading Svetlana Alexeivich’s Second Hand Time at the moment. It fascinated me at the time but how much more important is it to revisit he post Soviet record in the light of the current Russian conflicts

* rainin..

I went to see Ballad of Wallis Island yesterday and it’s great. The shopkeeper (Sian Clifford) did few South Wales dialect jokes that only I seemed to get.

I loved especially(with fond memory)-

“It’s raining is it?”

He hasn't read it, of course

AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

Has anybody made a comparative assessment of the strength of American vs Russian windows?

Windows come before prison (he says cryptically)

Narrator - the orange orangutan went HOT CHICKEN

Judge Finds Government Acted Illegally in Russian Scientist Case

Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

And the tapes that live there

As a UK citizen I’m grateful that even by our standards we don’t have any politician as stupid as this. She hasn’t even realised that if her orange overlord suspends habeas corpus he would no longer be able to deport anybody, on her reading

So, per Noem, if her orange overlord suspends habeas corpus it suspends his right to deport people. Has anybody told him

I disagree. It’s projection after he learned the word from his doctor describing how a part of him has atrophied. Anybodies guess as to which part (or parts). 🍄?

The “atrophied” bit is projection. The tangerine termagant has obvs been told that a piece of him has atrophied

Nothing wrong with that. Prime London longing for a New Labour Government while maxing out (uncritically) on all the good food and stuff coming over from our then lovely EU friends

My experience is that countries with high trust in government are countries where political leaders don't genuinely believe that shameless pandering to what they assume are the worst instincts of the massses is good politics