tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post2291088521792402941..comments2024-02-12T23:25:09.583-08:00Comments on Overweening Generalist: The Drug Report: August 2012 (a few hours tardy...with an explanation), With A Prolix Addenda About Weathermenmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-33417073288734297612015-08-18T10:32:32.295-07:002015-08-18T10:32:32.295-07:00Boy was Lavaface wrong about ObamaBoy was Lavaface wrong about ObamaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-54668187177848185962015-08-18T10:15:50.595-07:002015-08-18T10:15:50.595-07:00Jonah Raskin is a faux leftist who has done nothin...Jonah Raskin is a faux leftist who has done nothing since the seventies to advance a cause of social justice or peace. He makes his money writing about the sixties and people he knew. He lives vicariously and actually supported the demented college president of Sonoma State University even in light of the fact the president was and is corrupt.<br /><br />His colleagues at the college thought him an elitist and hardly any progressive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-25530742980495678752012-09-04T14:26:34.939-07:002012-09-04T14:26:34.939-07:00Great post. One positive possibility of a Romney ...Great post. One positive possibility of a Romney presidency: I've long thought it will take a Republican to legalize weed, just as it took Nixon to normalize relations with China.<br /><br />Your post made me think of "Humbolt" by I See Hawks in L.A. I listened to them driving up to Bob's memorial BBQ.<br /><br />I enjoyed the film "If a Tree Falls" about an ecoterroist who went to jail, also nominated for an Oscar.<br /><br />I finally bought a used copy of The Yankee Cowboy War because Bob Wilson asked me in 1999 if all his recommendations had gotten me to read it.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-62317610910228816682012-09-03T21:17:51.738-07:002012-09-03T21:17:51.738-07:00Always a pleasure to hear from you, lavaface.
I o...Always a pleasure to hear from you, lavaface.<br /><br />I once checked out Tragedy and Hope from a public library in LA and got maybe 25 pages in before I had to return it. I've had it on my (rather embarrassingly long) list of Books Wanted list. Along with Oglesby. Right now I can't afford to spring $35 for a used ppbk of Oglesby, but I'm in a library system that is LINKed to about 65 others, and there are a few copies of both books available through the extended system. My local library, Berkeley Public, owns 2 copies of Tragedy and they're both out right now...presumably there are 2 people in my city chugging away at its 1348 pages.<br /><br />Very interesting points about Obama and Rmoney from within this tradition of power blocs.<br /><br />The Evolution of Civilizations was 250 or so pages in its first ed; I see now it's 442 as its 2nd. I think I will try to read that one at some point, soon. RAW has a few things to say about Quigley in his Everything Is Under Control. <br /><br />Quigley also wrote a 1043 page book called Weapons Systems and Political Stability.<br /><br />Your comment reminded me of a blog post I read two days ago, here:<br />http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2012/03/yankeecowboy.htmlmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-53546509037754253122012-09-03T20:07:21.897-07:002012-09-03T20:07:21.897-07:00Thanks for the link to The Cowboy and Yankee War! ...Thanks for the link to The Cowboy and Yankee War! As soon as Oglesby referenced Quigley's Tragedy and Hope and the basic schism between the aristocratic and frontier mindsets I knew I was in for a good read. I wound up staying up all night finishing it and was intrigued to find a bunch of new information on Howard Hughes' links to Nixon and the Syndicate. <br /><br />I was also struck at the parallels to our current period and in particular, the similarities between the Obama and Kennedy administrations. I know that many liberals are upset with the increase in secret classifications, failure to close Guantanamo, etc. but I wish they could understand that the President is just one man with many factions vying for power underneath him in the federal bureaucracy.<br /><br />I believe Obama shares many of Kennedy's core principles of justice and equality for all the people on the planet. At the same time, he is pitted against the same right-wing Bircher oil money. For Kennedy it was H.L. Hunt; Obama has the Koch Bros.Gambling interests are also eager to force Obama out. As the Godfather trilogy so artfully rendered, mobsters have gone mainstream. Instead of Meyer Lansky you have Adelson. Not to mention the fact that the old Wall Street establishment has largely morphed into a Cowboy Casino!<br /><br />This election is a crucial one and I hope that enough people have enough sense to recognize the broad themes at work here. Ok, that may be asking for too much but I pray that the Teflon Tyranny the Republican machine has become does not grasp the reigns of power and drive us into further war and misery.<br /><br />As an aside, I highly recommend you check out Quigley's work if you haven't already. Tragedy and Hope is out of print and in the same price range as The Cowboy Yankee War, but The Anglo-American establishment and The Evolution of Civilizations are both reasonably priced. There are PDFs of all of those books available on the Internet if you'd like to check them out. I believe The Evolution of Civilizations is particularly alluring for an Overweening Generalist :) If I recall correctly, it was used as a intro text in the history classes Clinton took at Georgetown...lavafacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03827596134540945946noreply@blogger.com