The beauty of the earth is never more terrible to behold than on a fine fall morning. It's especially terrible in old age when you develop a heightened sense of the transience of all things beautiful. Well piss stained snowbanks in March are also transient but there's not much comfort or poetry in that.
"In all their vast coverage of agitated right-wingers, it may have escaped the attention of many in the media that over the past eight years the Democratic Party has moved dramatically to the left on an array of issues. It’s now a party of cultural imperialists and economic technocrats who want to rule through fiat. It is a party more comfortable coercing Americans who see the world differently than in convincing them. It is a movement propelled by a liberal punditry that’s stopped debating and resorted to smearing millions they disagree with.". https://althouse.blogspot.com/2016/11/i-cant-believe-were-still-waiting-for.html
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The beauty of the earth is never more terrible to behold than on a fine fall morning. It's especially terrible in old age when you develop a heightened sense of the transience of all things beautiful. Well piss stained snowbanks in March are also transient but there's not much comfort or poetry in that.
After election 2016.
Peachy said...
David Harsanyi nails it.
"In all their vast coverage of agitated right-wingers, it may have escaped the attention of many in the media that over the past eight years the Democratic Party has moved dramatically to the left on an array of issues. It’s now a party of cultural imperialists and economic technocrats who want to rule through fiat. It is a party more comfortable coercing Americans who see the world differently than in convincing them. It is a movement propelled by a liberal punditry that’s stopped debating and resorted to smearing millions they disagree with.".
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2016/11/i-cant-believe-were-still-waiting-for.html
These photos don't look too different from my views around Walden Pond at sunset this evening.
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