A Little Later, Cathedral of St John the Divine
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Beautiful buildings like this always serve to remind me how far architecture has fallen in recent decades. Much of modernist architecture seems to proceed on the assumption that hideousness is intrinsically valuable, and must be pursued at all costs. (According to Wikipedia, this atrocity is "regarded as one of the finest examples of the functionalist aesthetic and a masterpiece of corporate modernism.")
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