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The Long View 2004-12-05: Feral Awakenings

I had forgotten John's idea that the 1960s was another Great Awakening. Feral Awakenings The Other Spengler, the one at Asia Times, has these disconcerting thoughts on the nature of the periodic Awakenings in American history, and why America is immune to Europe's morbid agnosticism: Within

The Long View 2004-12-02: Tepid Fusion; Lies; Toads; Republicans; The UN Again

Cold fusion is a pipe dream of course. I would love to have cheap energy too, but there is nothing there. Tepid Fusion; Lies; Toads; Republicans; The UN Again The other shoe has dropped on the cold fusion issue, it seems: Evidence on Cold Fusion Remains Inconclusive, New Review Finds

The Long View: Ambrose Bierce on Spelling Reform

Heh. From "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913?) "A spelling reformer indicted For fudge was before the court cicted. The judge said: 'Enough-- His candle we'll snough, And his sepulchre shall not be whicted.'" Copyright © 1998 by John J.

The Long View 2004-11-29: Reactors; Stem Cells; Architecture; UN

I'm dubious of embryonic stem cell therapies too. They don't seem to have gone through the formality of working yet. Reactors; Stem Cells; Architecture; UN Yes, I do watch The West Wing, which is sort of like a yakitty yakitty police drama, except that it'

The Long View: The Holy Roman Empire

The idea of the King holds great power in the West, even when actual kings and queens largely do not. For us Westerners, what the Emperor means comes from Rome through Charlemagne and Otto I. There is a mythical undercurrent however, that is far older. The Holy Roman Empire By

The Long View 2002-11-02: The Gore Family

I found a blog entry that I missed from 2002. Which is unfortunate, because John makes the very interesting point here, often re-iterated, that the social and economic arrangements of the United States in the 1950s were unusual. They were intentionally unusual, and represented the pinnacle of 150 years of

The Long View 2004-11-24: Regime Changes; Mars

A prediction of John's that did not pan out: In an uncharacteristic indulgence of wishful thinking, I have been predicting for some time that Kim Jong-il's government in North Korea would just evaporate. North Korea just keeps going. I admit I have no idea how it