I think this is probably a step down from its predecessor, which is basically a perfect movie, but still features maybe 4 or 5 of the greatest fight scenes ever.

John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971)

If you get like 15 emails about a silent auction, how silent is it really?

Much enjoyed this piece by our Café Américain magazine music contributor David Polansky.
Explains my uneasiness with the term 'Global South', a terms as deliberately vague and easily weaponized to stifle critique of the 'decolonization' hegemon.

Same energy in that last paragraph:
youtube.com/watch?v=iza3Io…

As it keeps coming up and shows little sign of subsiding, I wrote about the curious vagueness of the term “Global South”
strangefrequencies.co/mapping-the-gl…

Actually, with respect to Ms. Wolf, some fairly amazing things happened beforehand as well.

While undeniably “experimental,” it is perhaps experimental in a different way than, say, certain cancer treatments are experimental
cp24.com/news/ontarian-…

You can sort of see Walt and Mearsheimer trying to get around this problem in their book by taking a broader view of constitutes the “Israel lobby,” but with the result that their thesis ended up sounding less rather than more reasonable.

Virtù contro a furore
Prenderà l’arme, e fia el combatter corto;
Ché l’antico valore
Nell’italici cor non è ancor morto.

Or uh words to that effect