“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Sophie Anderton, Super Model and Hooker
A super model, Coke user and hooker. If you like it, you have to pony up the $20K. The dollar just does not go as far as it used to.
As for me, I've died and gone to heaven. Crystal Gayle, part Cherokee, coal miner's daughter, last of 8 kids, sister of Loretta Lynn, married her high school sweetheart, sent bob to heaven this evening.
Jesus, flashing eyes, beautiful red dress, flashing earrings, lapels, black hair to the floor, skin like cream..o my.
56 years, she is, beautiful voice, like an angel, humorous too, great back up sax player named Blue Jay. Kind of music I like.
"Oh here you are, there's nothing left to say You're not supposed to be that way Did they push you out? did they throw you away?
Touch me now and I don't care When you take me I'm not there Almost human, but I'll never be the same
Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own Long way down, I don't want to live in here alone Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own
I never put you down, I never pushed you away You're not supposed to be that way And anything you want, there's nothing I could say
Is there anything to feel? Is it pain that makes you real? Cut me off before it kills me
Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own Long way down, I don't want to live in here alone Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own
I never put you down, I never pushed you away Take another piece of me Give my mind a new disease And the black and white world never fades to gray
Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own Long way down, I don't want to live in here alone Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own"
Didn't give me a headache. I remember the Goo Goo Dolls for some wildly popular song back in, oh, 99 - the title of which I cannot for the life of me recall.
"All them Arabs, tribes and such, all of 'em one and the same, aye?"
No.
But in order to make it work there has to be, above all, some facility for...political sustenance. The thing that's going to kick our ass in Anbar and we can't even straight-face going in, in Waziristan. It's your number one hurdle and you're not going to get over it.
I think that the first bias is thinking that you, your people, or your times are somehow special. Billions of others have thought the same. Speaking as an American nationalist, there is no intrinsic, special quality that'll somehow save our bacon and make everything alright in the end.
"Billions of others have thought the same. Speaking as an American nationalist, there is no intrinsic, special quality that'll somehow save our bacon and make everything alright in the end."
Well then, cutler, you're stuck with the Goo Goo Dolls.
Better than a security blanket. Don't get the impression I'm the sort who walks around in doom and gloom simply for the sake of itself. I don't think that either affected optimism or pessimism helps anybody, just brings you farther away from the truth.
Or to quote Robert Heinlein,
"The secret of correct prediction is to shun wishful thinking and think coldly. Shun pessimistic thinking, too. Treat the world the way a research scientist treats a problem - examine the data, try to organize, try to predict coldly and logically. Not what you want to have happen - but what can happen and what is most likely to happen - and then, and only then, what you yourself can do about it, to make things easier or better or safer for you and your kids." -Robert Heinlein"
Albeit, with a lot of Socratic/Derbyshire intellectual modesty thrown in.
From what I know, I like Mencken, though I admit I haven't read enough (plan to in the future though). I had a Libertarian-Monarchist professor in undergraduate, a real odd-ball obviously, who was a big fan. I still keep in touch with him via letters (he hates modern technology).
I tend to like iconoclasts in general, even if they make me pound the table at times. Perhaps because I hope that someday someone will cut me me the same slack.
You folks should like the Taliban, then, blowing up statues of the Buddha :) But, I know that's not what you mean. You be talkin' intellectual, cultural icons.
When she hits 56 years of age, like Crystal, the girl at the top of this post won't be looking so good, if she doesn't change her ways. Time will be unkind to her, if she even hits 56.
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Doubt it'd be a value, at $20,000
ReplyDeleteAs for me, I've died and gone to heaven. Crystal Gayle, part Cherokee, coal miner's daughter, last of 8 kids, sister of Loretta Lynn, married her high school sweetheart, sent bob to heaven this evening.
ReplyDeleteJesus, flashing eyes, beautiful red dress, flashing earrings, lapels, black hair to the floor, skin like cream..o my.
56 years, she is, beautiful voice, like an angel, humorous too, great back up sax player named Blue Jay. Kind of music I like.
Great evening. Thanks, Crystal!
Crystal Gayle
ReplyDeleteLike fine wine, time has been nothing but kind to Crystal Gayle
Crystal-UTube
ReplyDeleteCrystal Does The Mupputs She's no hooker.
ReplyDeleteOne More
ReplyDeletegrrnite
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.
ReplyDeleteListened to it over and over after school. And over and over. And over and over.
My dad still has the albums.
Trish, I'm still here. She was GREAT
ReplyDeleteWhat I'm currently listening to:
ReplyDelete"Oh here you are, there's nothing left to say
You're not supposed to be that way
Did they push you out? did they throw you away?
Touch me now and I don't care
When you take me I'm not there
Almost human, but I'll never be the same
Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own
Long way down, I don't want to live in here alone
Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own
I never put you down, I never pushed you away
You're not supposed to be that way
And anything you want, there's nothing I could say
Is there anything to feel?
Is it pain that makes you real?
Cut me off before it kills me
Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own
Long way down, I don't want to live in here alone
Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own
I never put you down, I never pushed you away
Take another piece of me
Give my mind a new disease
And the black and white world never fades to gray
Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own
Long way down, I don't want to live in here alone
Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own"
Too topical, I believe.
The hair. Oh my God, I would've sold my little brother for the hair. Never mind the voice.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that she was just that, bob. Great.
Who's it by, cutler?
ReplyDeleteThe lyrics don't Google.
Goo Goo Dolls.
ReplyDeleteVideo'll give you a headache though.
I'm a big rock guy.
Didn't give me a headache. I remember the Goo Goo Dolls for some wildly popular song back in, oh, 99 - the title of which I cannot for the life of me recall.
ReplyDelete"Too topical"?
It's just like Anbar, trish, out there in Warizistan.
ReplyDeleteAll them Arabs, tribes and such, all of 'em one and the same, aye?
"All them Arabs, tribes and such, all of 'em one and the same, aye?"
ReplyDeleteNo.
But in order to make it work there has to be, above all, some facility for...political sustenance. The thing that's going to kick our ass in Anbar and we can't even straight-face going in, in Waziristan. It's your number one hurdle and you're not going to get over it.
It's not a serious proposal, Rat.
ReplyDeleteSomeone in the administration just thought it a good way to meet criticism of the Pakistan policy and voila! there it is. In the WaPo.
Who in the hell is Sophie Anderton?
ReplyDeleteWhat you want in Pakistan are straight-up mercenaries. Present rules don't allow it. Present rules can be changed.
I doubt we ever needed more than one thousand mercenaries to fight the global war on terror.
ReplyDeleteSophie Anderton is a serious anlaysis of the falling value of the dollar. That was never worth more than a franklin and cab fare home.
Their most popular song was this one, 1998-1999 - so that's probably it.
ReplyDeleteRe: Topical.
In short, groping in the dark, slowly grasping the extent of potential problems through a fog of ideology, with so much to lose and so far to fall.
My pessimistic view of us today.
Can't help it, I've always seen eccentric things in songs.
*tempered by the fact that human history has, of course, always been that way.
ReplyDelete"I doubt we ever needed more than one thousand mercenaries to fight the global war on terror."
ReplyDeleteWe like The Big Show.
"...groping in the dark, slowly grasping the extent of potential problems through a fog of ideology, with so much to lose and so far to fall."
ReplyDeleteDidn't Churchill say God protects idiots and Americans? Lucky for you.
And me.
It was Bismark actually.
ReplyDeleteAnd no, I don't believe it.
I think that the first bias is thinking that you, your people, or your times are somehow special. Billions of others have thought the same. Speaking as an American nationalist, there is no intrinsic, special quality that'll somehow save our bacon and make everything alright in the end.
"Billions of others have thought the same. Speaking as an American nationalist, there is no intrinsic, special quality that'll somehow save our bacon and make everything alright in the end."
ReplyDeleteWell then, cutler, you're stuck with the Goo Goo Dolls.
Me, I'm hangin' with Bismarck.
ReplyDeleteBetter than a security blanket. Don't get the impression I'm the sort who walks around in doom and gloom simply for the sake of itself. I don't think that either affected optimism or pessimism helps anybody, just brings you farther away from the truth.
ReplyDeleteOr to quote Robert Heinlein,
"The secret of correct prediction is to shun wishful thinking and think coldly. Shun pessimistic thinking, too. Treat the world the way a research scientist treats a problem - examine the data, try to organize, try to predict coldly and logically. Not what you want to have happen - but what can happen and what is most likely to happen - and then, and only then, what you yourself can do about it, to make things easier or better or safer for you and your kids."
-Robert Heinlein"
Albeit, with a lot of Socratic/Derbyshire intellectual modesty thrown in.
Do you like Mencken?
ReplyDeleteI'll pass on Heinlein, thanks, though he does appeal to the males of my immediate acquaintance.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I know, I like Mencken, though I admit I haven't read enough (plan to in the future though). I had a Libertarian-Monarchist professor in undergraduate, a real odd-ball obviously, who was a big fan. I still keep in touch with him via letters (he hates modern technology).
ReplyDeleteI tend to like iconoclasts in general, even if they make me pound the table at times. Perhaps because I hope that someday someone will cut me me the same slack.
I tend to like iconoclasts in general, even if they make me pound the table at times.
ReplyDelete- cutler
So do I.
You folks should like the Taliban, then, blowing up statues of the Buddha :) But, I know that's not what you mean. You be talkin' intellectual, cultural icons.
ReplyDeleteWhen she hits 56 years of age, like Crystal, the girl at the top of this post won't be looking so good, if she doesn't change her ways. Time will be unkind to her, if she even hits 56.
ReplyDeleteA good student loans people plan is an official plan of how the
ReplyDeletelimits of student loans people. Both of those things.
Stung by allegations of financial mismanagement, the ROH hopes to demonstrate that it is your responsibility.
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