Give credit where due. Kathleen Parker likely angered most of her paper’s readership by declaring the obvious, and indicting her own employer in the process. Christine Blasey Ford got her second round of media adulation last month for publishing her memoir of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation she tried to derail. Parker wonders when the media […]
In his last moments, Brutus voiced a sentiment about the ultimate tragedy of the virtuous life in those evil days, in which the good was punished and the evil rewarded. This does not make virtue worthless for the individual; it just may place him on the losing side. [E]veryone knows that some young bucks among […]
Like the Greek tragic heroes of Oedipus and Prometheus, Oppenheimer used his almost superhuman intellect and ability to achieve something that led not only to his own suffering, but also to the suffering of others. Americans today would do well to heed the lessons passed down from the Greek tragedians about the reckless and stubborn […]
Gil Meche His career stats indicate that he was a mediocre baseball pitcher—perhaps the epitome of mediocrity: 84 wins; 83 losses; a 4.49 Earned Run Average; a Walks-plus-Hits-to-Innings-Pitched ratio of 1.42. Yet Gil Meche, who played for the Seattle Mariners and Kansas City Royals, was responsible for one of the most astounding, yet almost unnoticed, acts of […]
Last Thursday anarchists in Atlanta and around the country held memorials for Manuel Paez Terán aka Tortuguita on the one year anniversary of his death. It’s Going Down an anarchist website labeled it “Day of the Forest Defender.” Events were scheduled in Seattle, Portland, Boise, San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Denver, Austin, […]
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