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Thursday, January 6th, 2011

[ by Charles Cameron — cross posted from Infocult ]

For your ghoulish winter entertainment…

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Signs of the times

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

[ by Charles Cameron ]

Posted in America, analogy, black swans, Charles Cameron, christianity, culture, fiction, fun, futurism, history, humor, myth, psychology, Religion, scenario, science fiction, symmetry, Theology, theory | Comments Off on Signs of the times

At the turn of another year

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

[ by Charles Cameron ]

Lyon-Griswold brawl

Reps. Roger Griswold of Connecticut and Matthew Lyon of Vermont practice politics by means of hickory stick and tongs in Congress Hall, 1798

It’s always interesting to watch the way one thing morphs into another, and von Clausewitz’ formulation that war is “a mere continuation of politics by other means” is instructively illustrated in the gallery of a dozen photos on the CBS News site titled Best Parliamentary Brawls of 2010.

Ukraine, Indonesia, Italy, S Korea, Nigeria, Taiwan, Turkey… that’s a pretty fair slice of gepopolitics!

Happy New Year!

image above from the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

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A DoubleQuote for InfoCult

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

[ by Charles Cameron, cross-posted from Infocult ]

InfoCult is my friend Bryan Alexander‘s fine blog, with a house specialty of the gothic in everyday life and media. I put this DoubleQuote together for Bryan as a sort of Addams Family greeting for Christmas:

two Christmas quotes about hell fire and vampires