Cultural Offering's 9 Books

Here is Kurt's excellent list. 

I'm still thinking about mine.

Poems, Novels, and Values

 I was thumbing through an old and treasured book that I probably snared at a rummage sale while in grade school: One Hundred and One Famous Poems.

It was published in Chicago by The Cable Company in 1926. In addition to some very nice poems, it includes the Declaration of Independence; the Gettysburg Address; President Lincoln's Letter to Mrs. Bixby; the Magna Charta; The Ten Commandments; and Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.

It also has "Rules for Choosing Books" which provide guidelines for parents. Among them are:

"Does this book lay stress on villainy, deception or treachery?"

"Are all the incidents wholesome, probable and true to life?"

"Does it show young people contemptuous toward their elders and successfully opposing them?"

"Do the young characters in the book show respect for teachers and others in authority?"

"Are these characters the kind of young people you wish your children to associate with?"

"Does the book speak of and describe pranks, practical jokes and pieces of thoughtless and cruel mischief as though they were funny and worthy of imitation?"

"Is the English good and is the story written in good style?"

Although I have a great deal of sympathy for the character-building nature of the guidelines, I can think of many good books that could fall below their standards.

How would Oliver Twist fare? Or Huckleberry Finn? Or Treasure Island?

Classic

 

Hmm

 

Elon and His Inquisitors

 Their entire system is built to neutralize the people who disrupt.

The result: where we should have 15 to 20 universal geniuses alive at the same time, we have one.

Just one.

And you want to put him in prison.

You summon him before judges, you raid his offices, you insult him morning, noon and night, you dream of breaking up his companies. The man who lands rockets vertically and wants to take humanity to Mars.

You're disgusting.

History won't remember your names. It remembers Galileo, not the inquisitors who tried to silence him.

- Brivael Le Pogam

They're Coming for Your Children

"We'll get you through your children!" - Comment that Allen Ginsberg made to Norman Podhoretz in 1958

More information is surfacing on what many of the Left refer to as "Adultism."

A few books:

• Introduction to Adultism
• Adultism: A Critical Introduction to Discrimination Against Children
• Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy
• What is Adultism?
• Challenging Adultism: Centering Youth as Educational Decision Makers

gotta work poem

 Read, smile, and then get to work.

Extraordinary

 

Car Shopping?

The first fully electric Bentley - the Torcal - will be making an introductory appearance at the 15th annual Bentley Scottsdale Polo Championship on November 7.

It will be the only Torcal in the country.

True

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

- John Updike

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