Mal ,'War Stories'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Don't know about his theology, but Chesterton was a dreadful anti-semite.
Oh no, now you're going to get a big lecture from JZ on this subject. (In brief, while Chesterton's early writings certainly were anti-semitic, he recanted them and was one of the earliest journalists to speak out against the anti-semitism in early Nazism etc.)
It's snowing here... Again...
It had been a nice sunny day, too.
It's snowing here... Again...
Huh. It's pretty much a summer day in San Francisco today. Ridiculously sunshiney and warm.
It's snowing here... Again...
That's just wrong! I've been running errands all day in nothing but a sweater.
(Okay, and pants. But no jacket! It's in the mid-40's, and gorgeous.)
That is very wrong, DX. I think a nap might be an appropriate response.
I have a headache. I think I slept too long.
I have 3 vacuums in my spare closet in my bedroom (also known as the junk, boxes and luggage closet.) I only use 2 but haven't unloaded the third. A swiffer thing lives under the loveseat (um, because I use it most to fish cat toys out from under it.) The mop? Well, right now it is in the bathroom. Sometimes it is in the dining room. Or the kitchen. And sometimes it actually ends up in the other junk/linen/supplies closet. Which I trashed yesterday searching for the cd adaptor so the door won't close now. Need to clean that up.
It took me 3 tries to leave the house yesterday because I kept forgetting stuff. And some stuff is still forgotten. My logic seems to evolve which makes it hard to find things I last used 3 years ago....
It is NOT snowing here.
Okay, it's stopped, and the sun is sort of peeking out again. I think Mother Nature just wants to mess with my head. Stoopid Mother Nature.
Oh no, now you're going to get a big lecture from JZ on this subject. (In brief, while Chesterton's early writings certainly were anti-semitic, he recanted them and was one of the earliest journalists to speak out against the anti-semitism in early Nazism etc.)
Well maybe I need the lecture. I do know 'The Curse of the Golden Cross" published in the 1926 collection The Incredulity of Father Brown still contained anti-semitic stuff. (Basically the assertion that Jews were the only ones NOT oppressed on account of their religion in Medevial Europe.)
Since Chesterton died in 1936, that means he was still publishing anti-semetic stuff ten years before his death.
And that links mentioning he had Jewish friends reinforces Shaws point that it was especially inexcusable because he knew better. It looks from here like he finally recanted his anti-semitism when the Germans (who is was pretty obvious at that time would be facing the British in another war sooner or later) started practicing an extreme form of it. It is always easier to see that something is sinful when an enemy starts practicing it. He gets some points for a late recantation, but not a whole lot of them in my book. Not going to stop me from reading and enjoying "Thursday" now that it has been pointed out to me. I can seperate the teller from the tale. But it works both ways; brilliance in other areas does not get him a pass from me on that one. He had great powers, and sometimes he chose to use them for evil.
It's nice and sunny here. I just spent two hours in the computer room at the math department (basement, no windows, extremely over-heated) typing up some math homework. I've determined that, at this point, my TeX skills are such that I can type each problem in about 45 minutes. So far, I have solutions to four problems, and I've typed up about 2.5 of them. There are a total of nine problems. They're due Wednesday. This is not looking like it'll be in on time.
However, it's nice and sunny outside. I'm trying to decide whether I want to go outside and do stuff, or if I should stay in and cook and do laundry -- I bought enough stuff to make a few days' worth of dinner, and laundry really must be done today.
Ridiculously sunshiney and warm.
Yup. I should go mow my lawn.
I finally got rid of my Honda! Sold it off to a 19-yo fannish friend who came up from LA to get it. I'm feeling weirdly maudlin and maternal over her (her first car!) and the loss of the car, which I've had since 1994.
I'll get over it.
My niece is getting confirmed this spring, and I'm one of her sponsors. I wonder if an iPod shuffle would be too much as a gift.