"All who seek to destroy liberty in a democratic nation should know that war offers them the surest and shortest route to success." (p 766, Vol 2, pt III, Chapter 22)
and a bit before the above tidbit is this:
"War does not always deliver democratic peoples into the hands of military government, but it cannot fail to bring about a vast increase in the prerogatives of civilian government. It almost inevitably leads to centralization in the latter of control over men and things."
The book is good, and it keeps providing nuggets of interest. I don't know what is next on the book list for reading while on the elliptical machine at the gym, but I doubt there will be anything I bring back feel the need to transcribe bits and pieces for people, in the odd hope maybe someone else will read this book.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Meeting at Midnight
Nothing like a little Charlie Chan while away the evening. No extremely convoluted conclusions for the solution, but a fun mystery anyway. I am at a loss as to just how much to say about the movie, since I don't care to ruin it for the casual reader/movie goer.
Work was unexceptional today, and I managed to get to the gym and do a bit of cardio and read a bit of Tocqueville while doing so. The fun quote from our favorite frenchie: "In America, any vice likely to pollute the purity of morals and destroy the bond of matrimony is treated with a severity unknown anywhere else in the world." (p. 732, Vol. Two, Part III, Chapter 18)
Even with the married people in the minority, the same seems to still be pertinent today. In truth, it is hard to say which lags behind, law or culture. While married couples are now a minority when it comes to people living together, the law still favors them. In other instances, the opposite is true, where a change in law forced an acceptance (which will hopefully lead to change) in culture, even if it was far from open-armed.
I seem to have moved onto blathering somewhat aimlessly, so I will discontinue typing, and, though it is too late for another movie, I am sure something can be found to entertain me.
Work was unexceptional today, and I managed to get to the gym and do a bit of cardio and read a bit of Tocqueville while doing so. The fun quote from our favorite frenchie: "In America, any vice likely to pollute the purity of morals and destroy the bond of matrimony is treated with a severity unknown anywhere else in the world." (p. 732, Vol. Two, Part III, Chapter 18)
Even with the married people in the minority, the same seems to still be pertinent today. In truth, it is hard to say which lags behind, law or culture. While married couples are now a minority when it comes to people living together, the law still favors them. In other instances, the opposite is true, where a change in law forced an acceptance (which will hopefully lead to change) in culture, even if it was far from open-armed.
I seem to have moved onto blathering somewhat aimlessly, so I will discontinue typing, and, though it is too late for another movie, I am sure something can be found to entertain me.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Guys + Balls
Sunday, raining as can be expected this time of year, I spent a bit of time in the afternoon watching "Guys + Balls" which is a German film, from within the past few years. It was a fun movie, predictable in the ways you expect in "underdog makes good" sorts of movies. Of a similar type, "Kinky Boots," which I saw this past spring, I think may have been better, but watching the guys play football (soccer) just as much fun as watching the yokels build fuck-me boots. Worth a sunny Sunday afternoon? Not really, but this is Seattle in the fall, and those are really rare, and no movie seems to justify that, but either of these are worth watching for an evening of light fun.
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